IMPORTANT NOTICE TO A3 DONORS
A3 is moving to a new donor platform called Virtuous! Our existing donor platform has been shut down for a few days to prepare for the new platform launching on Monday, March 27, 2023. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Existing donor information will be transferred. However, for security reasons, banking and credit card data will not be brought over. Therefore, if you have a recurring donation to A3 (via direct debit or credit card), you will need to re-establish your recurring donation on the Virtuous platform starting in April 2023.
FOR ONLINE DONATIONS:
- Online donations through March 20, 2023 have been processed through our existing donation platform.
- Our online giving portal will be taken down on March 21, 2023, and restored on March 27, 2023 with new capabilities, including an optional account to view/manage gifts online.
FOR RECURRING DONATIONS:
Certain donors will be impacted immediately. If you are in the impacted group that is migrating in April, you should receive an email on March 21, 2023 and a hard copy letter a few days later with additional action steps. If you did get this communication, . . .
- March gifts will be processed as usual under our old platform but then will come to an end.
- After the online giving portal is restored on March 27, 2023, donors who would like to continue their automated donations will need to login to the new giving portal and set up their recurring donation(s) on the new platform. You can do this starting in April to ensure no gap in your recurring donation.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience. We value your data and have determined it is more secure not to transfer your banking or credit card information during the migration.
Furthermore, we are confident that the new online donation platform will provide a better donor/partner experience compared to our old online platform. In addition, we will save quite a bit by making this switch. Thank you for your understanding. We appreciate your partnership!
BUSINESS SECTION
How the collaboration and friendships amongst the CEOs of A3 have turned succession-planning theory on its head
FEATURE ARTICLE BY NOEL BECCHETTI
“I’m amazed at the relationships you have with your predecessors, Joe.”
Three questions from A3.business...
1. Have you seen this new logo?
2. Have you visited this new website?
3. Have you read these articles? ...
Reflecting on the Ten Years since Japan's Triple Disaster
By Sue Plumb Takamoto
PART 2
In Part 1: "Looking Back on Ten Years: Finding Beauty in Brokenness", I highlighted the unimaginable damage and challenging aftermath from Japan’s March 11, 2011 Triple Disaster—a 9.0 earthquake that triggered a tsunami and caused a nuclear power plant meltdown.
Reflections on the 10-Year Remembrance of Japan’s Triple Disaster
By Sue Plumb Takamoto
PART 1
There is beauty in brokenness. This is a message that we all need to hear right now.
A Silver Lining in 2020's Dark Clouds
What a year this has been! As most of us look back on 2020, I’m sure it’s been challenging—whether it’s the impact of COVID-19, the economic collapse or the ongoing polarization in our society and world. It often feels crazy to me. One of the silver linings in the dark clouds of this year for us at A3 though is the blessing of going digital. I’m sure you’ve heard of our Digital Platform project and the corresponding matching gift by now. Through your participation, we’ve been able to start three new countries in what we are calling a soft launch. In one of those countries, we are starting both our pastor and business cohorts simultaneously...
Here’s the story of Jay Kumar—a pastor, entrepreneur, and strategic leadership trainer from Chennai, India...
The Outcomes Conference: Global Digital Experience 2020
I wanted to let you know of a tremendous opportunity from Christian Leadership Alliance! A3 has been a member of Christian Leadership Alliance (CLA) for a long time. CLA is using my A3.business interview with Terry Looper for a Special Event Presentation of their Outcomes Global Digital Experience. And they're offering a great deal of $25 to attend their online conference. This is from Tami Heim, who is President & CEO of Christian Leadership Alliance...
Happy New Year, Friends!
Looking forward, it's an exciting year as we enter this new decade. 2020 is ahead of us folks and I am super excited because a lot is on the horizon....
There is no greater Return on Investment than discipleship and investing in other people.
– Mike Duke (former CEO of Walmart)
A few weeks ago, A3 had a wonderful gathering in Tokyo with marketplace leaders. Edwin Keh, former Senior Vice President at Walmart and Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania joined us utilizing a 4-hour video interview he conducted with Mike Duke, quoted above. They taught on discipleship as an opening topic for the orientation and launch of A3/Business (known as A3.business) for Japan. As Mike’s quote suggests, far more than his investment in...
Yesterday I posted that I recently sat down to interview Terry Looper about his new book Sacred Pace which was released on February 26. It’s a book laying out several great principles that align with our core focus at A3. I know you’ll enjoy the book. You can learn more about it here: Sacred Pace. And I had shared two clips from my interview with Terry Looper here, but these are two additional clips that I want you to see...
Recently, I was able to interview Terry Looper about his new book Sacred Pace being released today on February 26. It’s a book laying out several great principles that align with our core focus at A3. I know you’ll enjoy the book. You can learn more about it here: Sacred Pace. Here are a couple clips from our interview that I want to share with you. Terry talks about his relationship with God highlighting some of the themes from the book. It’s a terrific reflection on A3 first outcome, Living in a Love Relationship with God. Enjoy! I hope it inspires your walk with Jesus...
Haslam on the mystery of God weaving together his tapestry of our lives
Most recently we had the privilege of interviewing Governor Bill Haslam, who recently finished his term as Governor of the state of Tennessee. Pastor Scott Sauls from Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville did a remarkable job of interviewing the Governor. And, the wisdom flowing from Governor Haslam was immense. Here are a few brief video snapshots of our interview in which the Governor speaks about God’s Tapestry. I’m sure you’ll enjoy watching these brief clips and learning from them...
Happy New Year from A3!
Hear from President Joe Handley as we look ahead to 2019 seeing how the Lord might be directing our movement. Building on breakthroughs in 2018, the horizon looks bright...
Reflections from David Kim
A journey that began four years ago as a half step, an R&D effort, is bearing fruit with vibrant communities in the marketplace and among entrepreneurs in Asia with several potential new country launches on the horizon.
Facing Today's Unique Challenges
We are living through a season where there is more and more change, hate and reactionary times. The set of circumstances and events that challenge every believer and church lead many followers of Jesus to ask, “Why Lord?”
Graduation & Traction in Seoul
A3.business has graduated its second cohort in South Korea, and the traction that is gaining in the marketplace there for missional leaders is exciting! The cohort calls itself “Barnabas” because they develop lifelong relationships in which they encourage each other to be Christ-like leaders who multiply disciples in the marketplace. For the final session of “Barnabas 2” Phil Foxwell, ...
A few weeks ago, renown venture capitalist Promod Haque shared with one of our A3 cohorts for marketplace leaders. What a profound week we had learning together! Promod prompted some significant dialog and conversation as he shared his own life story and how he integrates the Bible and Christian worldview into his life, business, and philanthropy. My colleague Elliott Snuggs who has been spearheading our work with A3.biz as we call it shared the following...
Last December, A3 faculty member Daniel Fong (founder and teacher of Million Dollar Baby) taught for our opening session in India. He co-taught with pastor Skye Jethani over a weekend focusing on what we call the most crucial thing in mission: A Love Relationship with God. See our link on our core value: ALL IN with God. During that weekend, Daniel made a profound statement affirming this value: “Life on earth is an epic battle between a focus on God or on us.”
A3.business trains leaders to work in the marketplace
East Asia (MNN) — A3 has been training pastors and Christian leaders for over three decades in 12 countries with great success. Their programs set up small groups of pastors to take classes that promote Christlikeness at home, at work, and in their daily lives. “This model of developing pastoral leaders through a cohort program has been very successful in developing Christlike leaders who have a vision to reach their cities and transform their communities,” said Brother Jake. “With this being so successful, A3 came up with the idea that the same program could be run for business leaders as well, and that’s how A3.business has come about.” Brother Jake is a regional coordinator of A3 in his country, and he hopes the program will do the same thing for the business world of East Asia that it did for ministry. In fact, the two systems are so similar they even have the...
Not long ago I was in Hong Kong and the talk of the town was China’s One Belt, One Road plan to catalyze business ventures across Asia and into Europe. For those of you never hearing of the idea, check out this interview by McKinsey & Company: China’s One Belt, One Road: Will it reshape global trade? It’s certainly a breathtaking economic initiative and many wonder if it’ll come to fruition because of the massive infrastructure costs it will take to pull everything together. One thing we can say, China is ambitious! For me, the talk was all about how important this enterprise will...
Our capstone day for A3 Jubilee in Jakarta focused on the perfect theme: The Future is Now!
Dr Ajith Fernando led us in another in-depth devotional focusing on one of the core components to the fruitfulness of A3. He called it "Spiritual Parenthood" but others may call it mentoring or discipleship. It was a powerful metaphor for me given the history and trajectory of our week. You see, A3 holds something unique for an organization. Every leader we’ve had within the movement invests in me as the next generation leader. They stand beside me, behind me and support me along the way...
From the President
From the President blog by Joe Handley
A3 Community Blog
A3 Community blog with posts from a variety of contributors around Asian Access
Mission Network News
Stories about Asian Access published by Mission Network News, a mission news service dedicated to keeping Christians informed on evangelical mission activity around the world. In doing so we hope to educate and motivate Christians to prayer, participation, and support of missionary work to help further the Great Commission.
Features
Give to A3
Press Kit
Main Menu
RSS this Page
Search this Site
Partner Sites
