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- continue to work at making courses available for diaspora

- work on sharing information -  e.g. to get courses from Nepal, share ITEEN's requirements, and the ways to buy courses

- keep on praying and working for shared vision re diaspora

- keep on sharing good practice in Group Leader Training.
- Make new Zoom good practice widely known

- Revise the Life of Christ Group Leaders’ Manuals

- Focus on diaspora in Europe

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- Provide opportunities for connection and mutual encouragement, small zooms, large conferences, or both

- Develop online group leader training

- Create new materials attractive to young adults

- Explain simply, clearly, visually, why TEE methodology and TEE courses incorporate good practice for transformative adult learning

- Prepare a promotional video showing the breadth of what God is doing through TEE – with space for local testimony.

- Facilitate regional conferences. If one pan-Asia conference is not possible, regional conferences can be effective.

- Encourage the next generation of TEE champions

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- Continue to provide means of connection between programmes.
- Prepare an introduction to the different ways that TEE materials and methods have been developed to serve different contexts.
- Build a stronger shared understanding for collaboration and partnership; develop a statement of good practice
- Continue to build relationship with other regional and global theological education associations
- Continue to build a good network for TEE & church-based training programs
- Encourage more regional connection and interaction

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catalyzing new approaches 11111

sharing fruitful practice 11111 11111 11111 1

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connecting with other relevant associations 11111 11111

communicating stories from members. 11111 11

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- support churches in contexts of persecution

- develop courses that help churches to understand the material, physical, spiritual and mental impacts of persecution, and encourage them to remain faithful in persecution

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- Develop connections with global theological and church networks

- Keep in close touch with the national teams to identify common needs and share possible responses

- Explore Digital Developments

- Bring people together – virtually if necessary

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Increase's most fruitful contributions in future

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Increase's most fruitful contributions in future

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- Develop model group leader training packages

- Continue to build relationships in the Association

- Work with Tearfund to develop courses to empower churches to respond to community issues

- Foster ‘Increase-like’ networks in other regions

- Advocate for TEE and church-based training in church, mission and theological education circles

- Listen to the needs of member organisation leaders

- Strengthen support and encouragement for member organisation leaders

- Help foster TEE initiatives in Europe

- Publish articles to encourage/ explain/ improve TEE/CBT

- Continue to share stories of how God is using TEE

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- Develop materials introducing various aspects of TEE/ group leader training

- Find global course distribution solutions

- Collect feedback about SEAN courses

- Create awareness of different models for using SEAN materials

- Training in the adaptation of SEAN GLMs for the country context

- Promoting sharing between programs

- Collaboration with SEAN on Course Writer Training, Group Leader Training, Organisational Development of TEE programmes and various digital developments

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Listen to the needs of Increase member leaders

Encourage development of contextually relevant courses

Bring members together once or twice a year for prayer fellowship

Harness expertise of different organisations for the benefit of Increase members

Strengthen the fellowship between members

Roll out course writer training

Share good practice, innovation and stories

Specifically share ways members have responded to COVID

Facilitate different groups to serve the whole

Share good course materials

Work to provide ways of training new group leaders in diaspora

Develop good practice in internet use

Continue to develop unity and common vision among the Increase members

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*Build links between residential and TEE programs

*Further develop TEE materials on the role of the church in society

*Develop the ministry of the Increase Equippers
*Train more writing teams for courses relevant for context

*Focus attention on the Asia-wide issues not yet covered

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Equippers are saying for the Lord's priorities

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Equippers are saying for the Lord's priorities

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** Develop more and more courses rooted in the local situation and make it more widely known.

** Engage with the digital world and providing courses in a digital way.
** Providing resources and training in addition to supporting leaders.

**  Continue to building up new programs and at the same time strengthen the ones that are falling behind.

**  See other language prayer groups active as we constantly recognizing dependence on the Lord for this work.

**  To have a mentoring role. To be able to walk alongside new Increase members and individuals in the TEE-related tasks.

**  Training for m-learning and e-learning

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Equippers are saying for the Lord's priorities

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Equippers are saying for the Lord's priorities

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**  Moving forward online

**  Recognition of TEE as valuable and high-quality at different levels that lead on to higher levels.

**  Strengthen Core Areas of TEE

**  Become familiar with digital areas

**  Helping each other grow in cross-cultural awareness

**  Exploring other accrediting options

**  Bringing a standard curriculum for members

**  Continue working in Diaspora

**  Local church connection in the digital age

**  Go deep disciples and mentor

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-Nationals Leading the way in God's growing church
-Emerging Discipleship groups go across denominations/churches ->Make sure TEE resources are available and contextual for these groups. They can write these !
-New courses need to be in step with the changing theology and missiology of the unstructured new movements ( not driven nor influenced from the West). New thinking about mission is coming from grassroots movements
-The future of missions is indigenous -Jay Matenga-personnel, leadership and strategising.
-need to re-imagine discipleship resources in a context that does not require reading and writing.
-need to have a more wholistic approach to discipleship
-need the right mix of new technology with the space to meet and have relationships
-need to innovate more broadly beyond the course writing.
-Focus on partnerships not only of the organisation of Increase but of each member having this lived out in their organisation.
-remember the diaspora and stories of how God is working
-Increase is a platform to give voice to national voices

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Trends in Theological Education
1. Internationalisation of mission, a good education can come from anywhere. Growing edges of the church. NOT only from West
2. struggles with TE as it relates to its mission? (what is the mission in TE to support the church in its mission. But how does this connection stay alive?
3. Educational modalities from about 30-40 years ago changed. non-formal and formal education saw a bifurcation. Now a blurring of the lines and no longer us and them, but together with the church.
-many seminaries often do not think much of non-formal.
-not much training in the middle-how do we fill this in??
-there is distrust of both sides
Other Observations
-in countries with a large Christian population there is often nominalism and many do not know Christ, often study leads to a job and they are more inward-looking.
-Much growth of the church is outside of the church.
-the challenge is resources in various languages
-TEE in the past in some places were institutionalised.
-TREMENDOUS GAP IN TRAINING-So many leaders have no training. Need healthy trained leaders.
-more grassroots leaders trained especially to know how to help the church.
-discipleship of youth in church ( future leaders)
-translation into major languages
-pilot projects to help people how to use TEE materials
-has there been a rush to prepare equippers in the national church

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* research and serve the needs of the members
* deliver TEE student workbooks on a range of digital devices - especially important for youth and younger people
* consider breakout conferences on special topics eg. TEE in sensitive countries; formal/non-formal collaboration;
* run more writers' training workshops
* encourage revision of older courses
* help build sustainability of member organisations
* facilitate course sharing and availability of different language translations

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--- Find and share significant stories from around the Association- but make sure that Increase member organisations are recognised and honoured and that all is for the glory of God
--- Draw on the experiences of our diverse membership to create summaries of different aspects of TEE and church-based training good practice
--- Make more use of social media to connect with members and the very wide networks that they are part of
--- Use audio and video for effective communication of key concepts, ideas and themes in TEE and church-based training

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@@ be a platform for your members’ voices
@@ develop training pathways into leadership
@@ encourage growth in formal/ non-formal training partnerships
@@ offer consultancy for developing more transformational training
@@ make good courses widely known
@@ connect with others in grassroots training
@@ foster new TEE initiatives where needed
@@ use visual and audio to communicate
@@ explore uses of smartphones
@@ work on developing and building partnerships
@@ maintain a listening and learning posture

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>> provide opportunities to meet
>> share best practice
>> make a database of TEE courses available
>> organise teaching and training for national teams
>> work to raise the profile and credibility of TEE
>> explore digital course delivery
>> explore elearning
>> continue to connect and pray for national teams
>> encourage theological schools to embrace TEE
>> help national programs to increase
>> move to new areas and countries

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*  Explore digitization and online possibilities
* Serve rural communities with appropriate technology
* Provide resources to disciple the iGeneration
* Help leaders to develop strategic thinking

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Possible areas for Increase's focus in the next few years:
& continued investment in course writing and course revision
& a course to build financial integrity and good practice in church leadership
& developing partnership between Increase members and more formal training institutions
& supporting good curriculum design - for good sequencing and filling significant gaps
& training on developing group leaders guides - leaders need more guidance
& group meetings enriched by use of a variety of participative methods
& invest in TEE programs for pastoral training

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!! Contextualisation - help teams develop context-relevant courses and programmes
!! Speak into use of digital technology, especially to serve diaspora realities
!! Explore use of radio in situations of technological poverty
!! Share information about TEE, church-based training programme developments with us
!! Be available as conversation partners and consultants for our partners working in and with other theological institutions

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^^ Build on the strengths of Increase
^^ Provide opportunities for interaction, relationship-building, mutual learning, hearing the news - preferably face-to-face
^^ Offer support and encouragement to new programmes
^^ Encourage collaboration and partnership
^^ Arrange for training and capacity-building eg instructional variety, group leader training
^^ Offer a quality check for programmes that request it
^^ Encourage relevant connections with Equippers for advice

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-indigenisation in mission is a trend and many expatriates are working indirectly to support.
-many CPM and DMM movements where the question are raised about what maybe next?

-If think of 5 levels of TE -from new believer to seminary-they see that TEE could play a role at all levels in some way but and particularly at level 3 which is leadership development.

-many young people continue to be engaged in mission but they also need TE-how to get this and stay engaged
-the way forward is via relationships and trust building
-trialing of the phone app with good success in the Philippines, this can then mean recommendation to other teams.

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attention to oral preference learning also important