Announcing the New Wheaton College School of Mission, Ministry, and Leadership, and Lots More on What’s Going on at Wheaton’s Billy Graham Center

There is a place for you in what God are doing at Wheaton College and the Billy Graham Center.

Two years ago, I made the decision to leave Lifeway Research, pack up my family, and head north to become the Billy Graham Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College and the new Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center there.

It was a huge transition, but we knew it was God’s leading, and were excited to begin. The last two years have been, in many ways, a learning curve for me as I’ve navigated the complexities of an institute of higher education while also looking outward at building a world hub of mission and evangelism training.

At times, it’s been hard. At times, I’ve wanted to pack up and head south to train pastors in Brazil. Seriously. But more frequently than not, I’ve not wanted to go anywhere. Nearly daily, I am reminded of God’s calling upon my life and my leadership here at the college and the Center. It really is a great place to work.

God has done significant things through the hard work of my staff over the past two years. I want to share just a bit of it, and then end with some exciting news.

At the Billy Graham Center…

We’ve launched the Send Institute in partnership with the North America Mission Board. This is a one-of-a-kind church planting think tank that is tackling some challenging issues in North American church planting today.

We’ve launched the Rural Matters Institute, finally bringing on the map the important work of church planters and pastors serving in rural contexts in North America. RMI has become a go-to place for resourcing rural pastors.

We’ve exponentially increased our Church Evangelism Initiative, which brings together senior pastors in cohorts to grow their personal evangelism and take their churches to the …