When theologian John Stott first began Langham Partnership in 1969, the global church had begun to grow exponentially but needed well-trained, local leaders to shepherd that growth. Stott started sponsoring PhD studies for a handful of church leaders around the world. Equipped with the right tools, these leaders founded seminaries, started ministries, wrote books and trained up other leaders to preach the Word clearly, faithfully…

There’s something different about going to church at Namadi Heights Baptist in Fiji. “Some preachers, they preach what people want to hear,” says Mere Tara, a woman who goes to Namadi Heights. It’s not like that at her church. Sermons are “true to the text, going from that to how it applies to our lives,” Mere says. “And boy, almost every preaching, it applies to…