A3 (formerly Asian Access)

A3 is striving for a vibrant community of servant leaders with vision, character, and competence leading the church across Asia. We hope to develop a global community of leaders networked with each other. For the rest of their lives, we hope these leaders will be...

1.) LOVING GOD: A deepening, personal loving relationship with God
2.) GROWING CHRISTLIKE: Community of leaders, growing in Christlike character
3.) REPRODUCING LEADERS: Multiply their impact by nurturing more disciples
4.) CATALYZING MOVEMENTS: Fostering movements that accelerate the Great Commission

Beyond this personal and corporate transformation, A3 strives to achieve genuinely sustainable indigenous ministries in each location. Our objective is to reduce outside resources by increasing resources within each of our partner countries, while fostering interdependence across the globe. Our goal is to accomplish this within a 12-year period. Sustainable ministry will be measured by:
1.) A viable Leadership Team in place.
2.) Increasing number of faculty coming from inside each country.
3.) Decreasing level of financial support needed from outside.

The A3 Leader Development Model brings together 12-20 pastors who meet quarterly over a 2- or 3-year period and is intensive, in-service, in-country, in community, and ongoing. By virtue of the fact that the selected participants move through the two-year transformational process with a group of other like-minded leaders who face very similar challenges, a strong sense of camaraderie develops which motivates the leaders to grow together and to push one another to a higher level of performance. The relationships that develop in the context of this experience often provide a network for ongoing friendship and development long after the program is completed.

A3 Leader Development Model
A3 is committed to equipping every leader to nurture a love relationship with God. This is the core from which godly leadership emanates and is the central element of the A3 Leader Development Model. Around this focus, the model is three-dimensional: creating a vibrant learning community through supportive and accountable relationships; incorporating an integrated curriculum through rigorous and extensive training; and fostering a transformational process that promotes life-long spiritual growth.

Focus on Transformation
A3 training focuses on a process of transformation rather than on an event for inspiration. As a result these leaders will have time for instruction, experimentation, reflection, evaluation, and relationship building.

Leaders with Potential Trained by Seasoned Leaders
The training is provided for exceptional emerging leaders by experienced senior leaders who are seasoned practitioners. The participants and trainers alike are carefully selected. It is the conviction of A3 that leaders are best developed by leaders, not by theorists alone.

Life-on-Life Mentoring
The training is designed to bring about a process of change that is accompanied by a commitment to implementation. This focus is intended to prevent the training experience from being a mere academic exercise. Central to this process is the life-on-life impact of the mentor on the pastor/leader. This mentoring is guided by the A3 national director in partnership with the country resource coordinator, along with the guests faculty who come to lecture and present case studies.

Key Church Leaders Included
A3 also involves the key leaders in a church so pastors are not learning in isolation of those they are leading. This endorsement by key church leaders at the beginning of the process increases their sense of ownership of the vision and strategy that is articulated as their pastor/leader moves through the program.

Training Marketplace Leaders
A3 launched for marketplace leaders the same leadership development we use for pastors. The vast majority of our church leader model transfers to the business sector. Developing leaders for the marketplace is a significant step toward bringing transformation to society at large.

A3 has over five decades of experience working in partnership with local churches. At A3, our most precious resource is our people...
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Staff and Alumni
The strength of the ministry has always been the quality of the partnerships God has blessed us with—strong and enduring partnerships with the highest echelon of Christian leaders across the islands of Japan. Additionally, God has brought a community of highly-motivated staff and well-trained missionaries who bring additional strength and creativity to the ministry. This includes nearly 3,000 alumni from North America. Amazingly, the majority of our senior leaders has 25+ years of ministry with the organization, which has increased its stability.

Board of Directors and Council of Reference
The foundation laid by A3's outstanding Board of Directors has made the work of these missionary-national partnerships effective. We are privileged to have excellent boards in the U.S., Canada and Japan. Our Council of Reference endorses what A3 is accomplishing in the trenches.

Partnering Organizations and Teaching Faculty
The partnerships that A3 has enjoyed with leading churches, mission-minded schools, and generous supporters all across North America has made possible over forty-five years of fruitful ministry, and have brought us to a place of expanded ministry horizons across Asia. Many of our faculty, teaching across Asia, are serving churches, ministries and schools in North America and Asia.

Participants in the A3 Leader Development Program
Finally, the leaders who are participating in our leader development program are a big part of the A3 Community. Our graduates give back to the program in their given locale. Some serve on the working team to coordinate the work. Some serve on the reference council or board on the national level. Some serve as faculty to teach in country, and some are teaching in several countries across Asia. All of these graduates are volunteers for the movement, largely because they have benefitted themselves from participating in the program; they want to give back.

A3 is currently in over 20 countries across the globe, mostly in Asia where we started. But we are getting invitations from many places, within Asia and more recently well beyond this continent. That said, in our current countries, we are seeing significant progress toward our goals and objectives. We have developed over 1,000 leaders in these countries and they are a part of our vibrant community of servant leaders. We have seen growth and development in our graduates' personal lives, families, churches, and communities. Not every participant is a success story, but by and large, the majority do see meaningful transformation in their own lives—in their families, churches, communities, and even countries. We know we're doing well when our biggest compliments come from the spouses of our graduates, as they report the positive changes they have personally observed.