Langham Partnership International is now a network of three integrated programmes and five supporting national member movements. But its history is more diverse and goes back more than thirty years. To read more of the full history>
LPNZ was launched in 2007, the culmination of over two years of positive discussion between Chris Wright of Langham Partnership International and Leadership Development International NZ. Rev Paul Windsor, previously Principal, Carey Baptist College [and who is now a Board member of both LeaDev Int’l and LPNZ, and on the staff of Langham Partnership International], had met both John Stott and Chris Wright in Australia, and mooted the idea of active cooperation between the two ministries, because their missions are so closely aligned, their theological convictions almost identical, and their values and methods compatible.
Paul Windsor, comments that, “This strategic development brings a NZ face to the ministry that stewards the legacy of John Stott. In itself that is so exciting. But it also brings together the two ministries that do so much to strengthen leadership development in the Majority World through biblical preaching and theological education. With this opportunity to be involved we Kiwis are brought much closer to what God is doing in the world where the growth of the church is so great but the resources for the church are so small.”
LPNZ’s first project will be to raise up to NZ$100,000 to purchase two major theological library collections [more than 10,000 volumes], which are available here in New Zealand, for distribution among several theological colleges in Asia.
At the same time LPNZ is very keen to support a new ‘Langham Scholar’ — that is, an Asian leader who is accepted into the PhD programme at SAIACS, Bangalore, India, and possibly another who might come to New Zealand for PhD studies through Laidlaw-Carey Graduate School, before returning home to teach in their own country.