Allelon is a multi-generational network of leaders, academics and parachurch organizations committed to resourcing, training and educating leaders for the mission of the church in the multiple cultures shaped by Western. It is a movement of missional leaders. The word allelon comes from the New Testament and describe the character of Christian life as a shared, partnered journey. Christian faith is not an individual matter. The Gospel calls us to a life for the other and one another.
The RMN is a partner with Allelon in its continuing work of serving the mission of the church through research and training. Allelon is taking on a more specific focus to its ministry as it concentrates on two major areasin the coming years. As Allelon takes on this more focused identity the work of providing resources for the development of mission-shaped churches and the leaders who serve them will shape RMN.
Mission in a Globalizing Culture(s) Project
For the past several years Allelon has nurtured and underwritten a global conversation focused on Lesslie Newbigin's question:
...what would be involved in a genuinely missionary encounter between the gospel and the culture that is shared by the people's of Europe and North America, their colonial and cultural off-shoots, and the growing company of educated leaders in the cities of the world...the culture...described as 'modern'? (Foolishness to the Greeks).
While the world has changed significantly since Newbigin wrote this more than twenty yeas ago his question is more urgent today that even at that time. We live in a world of multiple modernities being continually shaped and re-shaped by a multiplicity of colliding narratives and yet driven by an underlying dynamic of technology and economics. Wherever we have traveled in the world, Europe, Asia, Africa or Latin America leaders of the churches in these regions recognize the overarching power of modernity in its multiple forms and how it is profoundly challenging and reshaping the nature of Christian life around the globe. It is our conviction that there are critical issues of leadership formation and discipleship making that must be addressed by the churches in the face of these modernities. Over the past three years a growing community of scholars and church leaders have been coming together to ask these questions of leadership and discipleship in the light of Newbigin's question. The result has been the formation of an international project: The Mission in a Globalizing Culture(s) Project (originally designated the Mission in Western Culture Project). We invite you to learn more about this project and Allelon's global partners in the following sections and at the Allelon.
Allelon Training Centers (ATCs)
The ATCs are part of an international partnership with Together in Mission (TiM) in the UK. Together with TiM we have created a training program designed to cultivate missional leaders for the church. The ATCs are committed to the formation of leaders who move into their communities and networks for the sake of the Gospel. The ATCs seek to form such leaders from all walks of life to be God’s missionary people wherever they are by providing practical, flexible training. The courses give leaders new frameworks, skills and practices for building mission-shaped ministries in neighborhoods and networks.
Something radically new needs to emerge in leadership formation if the Gospel is to transform this world. Existing leadership development programs are not reach forming men and women with the capacities of shape movements of God's people outside existing the church and its programs. People are looking for the skills and tools to become missionaries in their worlds.
The ATC program is designed around a series of learning modules people can access on-line. People can enter the program at multiple points and take as long as they need to cover all the topics. Working with our on-line resources people are connected to a local tutorial groups where a qualified tutor guides their learning experience.
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