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The Increase website is under construction, and in the near future we hope to have much of interest to all involved in non-residential, church-based training programmes. For the time being, here is a brief introduction to Increase.
Increase is a group with the aim of encouraging, resourcing and networking among non-residential, church-based training programmes, including TEE programmes. Increase organized, '21st Century TEE in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities', an Asia-wide conference held in Nepal in October 2010.
Increase is led and governed by an international committee that meets monthly through Skype. They are all active as practitioners and advisors with non-residential training programmes, as follows:
- Rev. Richard Morris (committee chair), of MAF Learning Technologies, with particular expertise in learning design and electronic delivery systems, and working since 1996 with a wide range of training organisations and consortia. He currently leads a team operating in Latin America, Spain, Central Asia, East Asia, and Africa that serves ministries with pastors and leaders who have little or no access to training and resources.
- Mr. Michael Huggins, General Director of ORTA, member of Matheteuo, former assistant to Tony Barrett the founder of SEAN, and illustrator of many TEE texts. He is widely known in the TEE world and for more than twenty-five years has assisted TEE programmes in South and North America, Africa and several Asian countries. He initiated and runs the TEE e-network.
- Mr. Zafar Ismail, with nearly forty years experience as practitioner and theorist in TEE. He is from Pakistan and for 18 years was National Director of the Open Theological Seminary there. He is presently active with Matheteuo and in TEE with ethnic minorities in London. He has a deep knowledge of Islam and is deeply committed to strengthening the churches in the Muslim world for their role of prophetic witness and service in society.
- Rev. Dr. Stephen Cho – Co-president of TEE Korea, and working to re-establish TEE in Japan and Indonesia. He is General Coordinator of TEE-TEXT-Asia, introducing TEXT-Africa courses alongside SEAN courses for equipping all church members in Asia and Russian-speaking countries. He has completed doctoral research with the title, 'TEE community learning, and making teaching plans', including research on the effects of the method of church-based discipleship training. Stephen previously worked in leadership in BEE Korea, including as Director in 2003 - 2004. He has been involved in facilitator training in Central Asia, China, Sri Lanka, Eastern Malaysia, Russia, Mongolia and Nepal.
- Dr. Anneta Vysotskaya, International Director of ORTA (Russia & Central Asia,) member of the Religious Liberty Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance and chair of the planning committee for the 2010 Increase conference. She has travelled in Central Asia assisting the indigenous TEE groups and running training workshops. She is also a Christian journalist and writer.
- Rev. Tim Green, an Interserve partner for 25 years, first with the Open Theological Seminary in Pakistan and later with PTEE in Jordan. Based in the UK since 2005, he continues to advise TEE development in a number of countries. He is a trustee of SEAN International, and has written two SEAN courses. He is engaged in doctoral studies on issues in identity for new believers.
- Rev. Dr. Graham Aylett, has worked with Mongolia TEE since 1999.
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