Empowering the Ethiopian Church: the birth of homegrown Christian publishing  

Launch of Onesimus Publishing house

Ethiopia has a long-established church. It is estimated that 18% of Ethiopia’s 129.4 million people are evangelicals (about 23.3 million).  But, reportedly over 90% of Ethiopia’s evangelical pastors lack formal training – though there is a growing number of seminary-trained pastors (including Langham Scholars).  Significantly, there hasn’t been a credible, indigenous Christian publishing house, so…

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Understanding Mission course by Revd Dr Chris Wright launched

Understanding Mission launch Bristol

Over 50 people gathered earlier this month to mark the launch of Langham’s new bible study course ‘Understanding Mission‘, written by International Ambassador Revd Dr Chris Wright. The course – which is freely available to download – invites us to journey with him through eight study sessions to understand what the Bible as a whole…

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‘I want to serve my indigenous community in Panama’

Jocabed Solano

Last month on our Langham Live zoom calls, LPUKI supporters were privileged to hear from Jocabed Solano, a member of Langham Preaching in Panama. Jocabed grew up in the Gunadule (Guna) community in Panama, was born to missionary parents, and came to faith at the age of nine. She became a staff worker for IFES…

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Impact stories: beyond the church walls…

Gladys Mwiti

Through its Scholars programme, Langham supports Majority World leaders in gaining theological PhDs. Many go on to impact their societies in extraordinary ways. Here is a small snapshot: 1) Relieving poverty and bringing good news in Uganda For Pastor Emmanuel Mukeshimana of Uganda, the most strategic response to the poverty he saw across East Africa…

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‘Great joy’ as lay preachers in rural Australia gain new skills

Rural Autralia Preaching Training

Langham’s Preaching programme is about training pastors and lay leaders (most of whom will never get to attend Bible college) to teach the Bible, equipping them to biblically lead their churches. The program is active throughout the Majority World and in other places where there are few evangelicals and a lack of training in expository…

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Word from the World: ‘Leadership or Servanthood?’

Word from the World

Langham recently published Leadership or Servanthood? Walking in the Steps of Jesus by Hwa Yung, bishop emeritus of the Methodist Church in Malaysia. Here he explains the reasoning behind his new book. (Extract from langhamliterature.org) Growing up with a strict father who had been a senior military officer in China during the pre-Communist era meant that academic success and…

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Chris Wright’s latest Word on the World

World on the World

Chris Wright, Langham’s Global Ambassador and Ministry Director, seeks a biblical response to the war in Ukraine in his latest ‘Word on the World’ feature for the Spring ’22 edition of Transform. I write this on Day 5 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I have no idea what the situation in that country will…

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