Friday, February 18, 2011

Meet Mark Wold -- Global Training Team Interview Series (Part 4 of 4)

Name: Mark Wold

Where do you currently live? Indio, California

What is your history with RG? I was an EFC pastor for 35 years, focusing on pastoring unhealthy churches to help them and their leaders get healthy. Then, they all started growing and impacting the world.

What is your current position? ReachGlobal Director of Church Health and Development

What does that mean? What do you do? I am seeking to help RG personnel provide training for national leaders overseas to build healthy churches and leaders in their networks.

What is the most exciting aspect of your role? When RG personnel or national leaders choose equippers that I can train so that they can effectively train the others in their networks. That is our ideal.

Have you ever been to Latin America or lived here? I've never lived in LA. I have only been to Costa Rica for the last RGLA conference, done a tour of the Caribbean Islands and Puerto Vallarta, and last spring I went as part of a RG training team to help the churches in Venezuela. It was so effective that they invited us back to do more than we were able to do in one day each.

What excites you about doing ministry in LA? I see the Lord doing significant things despite many obstacles in LA. I also see the need for training pastors and leaders to be very high as the number of unhealthy churches seems very high.

My daughter-in-law is from Peru, and we had quite a few people in our church from LA, so our interest and concern for reaching its many cultures is very high.

How can you be a resource to our LA missionaries? Each of us [on the Global Training Team] not only has a lot of expertise in (and beyond) our primary training areas to bring to the field, but we also bring proven effectiveness in cross-cultural training wherever we've been.

I can provide training to help churches and leaders discern biblical and cultural health and growth tools to help them develop their people and ministries. I will also soon be developing a website offering a ton of teaching materials for national and RG personnel to use -- something that many have asked for and become excited about.

One of our priorities is that the nationals are the leaders, not us, so we adapt and adjust materials to fit the needs and requests they make.

How can we partner with you to enhance our ministry? Let us know about areas where we can bring or secure training, and you can be the bridge to enable those doors to open.

LA has been a surprisingly difficult setting for us to get involved with, but once it happens, it will grow and bring significant help, so please make this a short-term priority for your team. It will bring long-term results.

How can people contact you? Email me at mark.wold@efca.org or call me at 760-406-3506 or Skype at mrkwld.

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