Momentum builds up for Kairos course in Southeast Asian Country

It all started in July 2007. Kairos was launched in this closed Southeast Asian country with 27 participants finishing the course. But as the months rolled on, Kairos continues to build up momentum in this part of the world.

The second Kairos course was held in September with 22 participants. Eighteen of these participants then joined the facilitator training course, preparing them to facilitate Kairos themselves.

With the teamwork of facilitators from the south of the country, the 1st Kairos in the capital city then took place – almost completely run in the native language in October. Thirteen more facilitators were trained.

With the growing expansion of Kairos in this country, Facilitator Up-Skill Training was held with the 13 facilitators. This has resulted in skills development in facilitating the course and a significant shift in carrying full responsibility for developing Kairos opportunities in the country, both in re-producing Kairos and financing its spread.

The Kairos Explorer followed in early November with 27 top leaders representing 22 churches of the country’s evangelical fellowship in attendance. A one-day ‘peep’ into Kairos convinced the fellowship to unanimously accept Kairos as a discipleship and mobilization tool for their churches, to decide to send two leaders from each of the churches to go through Kairos (in March 2008) and be intensively trained as facilitators themselves so they could run ongoing Kairos courses in their churches and in their church-plants, and a separate Kairos intensive for top leadership in 2008.

According to Owen and Glynis, the course coordinators, another course is scheduled for December 2007 with subsequent courses to follow in January and March 2008.