Description: Raising leaders who serve where they are, with what they have.
Home Grown Leaders aims at providing an approach fro the development of Christian leaders whether they be small group leaders, supervisors of multiple small groups or pastors. It relies on both a biblical foundation and contemporary leadership theology. It seeks to introduce both well-informed lay leaders as well as pastors to the process of developing Christian leaders in context.
This book was used to inform leadership trainers at several levels in different parts of the world. Youth With a Mission (YWAM) used it in it's leadership development for Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. Christian colleges and seminaries used it to help equip pastors for laying training in diverse places such as England, Kenya, Taiwan, Korea, and the United States.
Brief description: Edgar J. Elliston holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with cognates in International Development and Intercultural Studies from Michigan State University. He completed his MA in Missiology at Fuller Theological Seminary. His own research has addressed a range of missiological projects including receptivity research in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Sudan. Later curriculum research formed the base for the DMin in Missiology at Fuller Theological Seminary. As faculty at Fuller Theological Seminary, he designed and taught missiological research for both doctoral and master's programs.
Review Quotes:
Edgar Elliston has a rare quality: the ability to set biblical truths in a context that is informed academically and relevant practically. Whether you are in Kerala, Kansas, or Kenya, Elliston gives you a biblical base to evaluate secular leadership models, and condenses for you the essence of the process God is using globally to raise up local church leadership. There is nothing else like it.
-Thom Wolf, senior pastor, The Church on Brady, Los Angeles, California assistant professor of urban education, Grand Canyon University, Los Angeles campus
This is no ordinary book about leadership development. It is intensely realistic, culturally sensitive, biblically insightful, practically useful, and spiritually focused. Dr. Elliston clearly identifies the Biblical values that are foundational in Christian leadership development.
-Charles Cook, president, North American Christian Convention of Christian Churches/Churches of Christ
A valuable book for trainers working in inner-city local church-based leadership training institutes. I found the chapter on "The Existing Leaders' Role in Leadership Development" to be most useful in our work of training leaders for inner-city Los Angeles. I heartily recommend it as a resource for inner-city training schools.
-Ranjit DeSilva, dean, Crenshaw Christian Center Ministry Training Institute, Los Angeles, California