August 15, 2026

The SEND U Blog

Reflections and Resources for Lifelong Learning for Missionaries

Year: 2012

Training

Webinars for Missionaries Much More Accessible

Many of us in SEND have benefited from the webinars that have been offered on a regular basis by The Mission Exchange and CrossGlobal Link. For those unfamiliar with the vocabulary, a webinar is a short seminar (generally about an hour long) offered through the Internet.  Since missionaries are generally located thousands of kilometers from the typical places where mission training seminars, workshops and conferences are held, we have few opportunities for attending these training events.   Rarely do we have a chance to hear what missionaries and mission leaders from other organizations have learned, other than by reading a book or during our “furloughs”.  The Internet of course has changed all that, and webinars are one way where a subject matter expert can share his expertise with an audience spread across the globe. For those who are unfamiliar with The Mission Exchange and CrossGlobal Link, they were two different evangelical… Read the whole post
Ken Guenther2 mins read
Books

Managing Your e-Books

In a previous blog, I talked about the switch I made a few years ago to digital books versus paper copies.   Back in 1987, when we left for the Philippines, we sent all our books in barrels to Manila. Ten years later, when we moved to Russia, we sent the books back to Canada in those same barrels, and took a much more limited number of books with us to Russia in our suitcases. We have now moved to Ukraine, and again some of my books have been sent back to stay in storage in Canada. It is just too expensive and difficult to haul my library every time we move to another country.   In that same blog, I talked about the Amazon Kindle as a means of both obtaining and reading English books when you are overseas, and in countries where few English resources are available.   Since then,… Read the whole post
Ken Guenther2 mins read
Training, Adult Education, E-learning

What Does Romans Say About Preaching and Online Learning?

From my journal this morning: First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you. I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong—that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I… Read the whole post
Ken Guenther2 mins read
Church Planting, Coaching

The Importance of Coaching Church Planters

In SEND U, we have been promoting coaching as a means of personal development, and as a help for those in mission leadership.    But coaching is also used extensively in supporting church planters, and this was the context that first sparked my interest in coaching back in 2007. The following article comes from the December 2011 edition of Dr. Bob Vajko’s Help in Planting and Multiplying Churches newsletter.   Dr. Vajko is a church planting consultant with TEAM International, and he and his wife Noreen served as church planters in France for 29 years and then 7 years in Australia.… Read the whole post
Ken Guenther1 min read
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