Recently, Tim and I sat down with our research partners at Meros to talk through exactly what we're measuring and why. It's a longer conversation, but an honest one â including the parts where we don't have it all figured out yet...
When an old friend asked Steve to name MAIâs mission and vision, he stumbled. So he went back to the stories that move him: a mushroom farm in Indonesia, women sharing Scripture and forgiveness, a community that once chased the team away. What he found there was a simpler, truer statement of why MAI exists.
After years of measuring reach, MAI is asking a harder question: what were we actually counting? Hereâs why weâre shifting from counting communities touched to tracking the ones that truly take root.
Reflecting on Jesusâ exchange with the Sadducees in Matthew 22, Steve makes the case that leadershipâs greatest return isnât in buildings, budgets, or quick results. Itâs in people: equipped leaders, mentored young people, and empowered churches whose impact multiplies across families and generations.
Explore MAIâs 2025 Annual Report and see the impact your partnership made possible last year. In his introduction, CEO Steve Otradovec reflects on his first year leading MAI and shares where the ministry is headed next: going deeper rather than wider, through a new framework called Transformation Hubs.
When the city tore out a beaver dam near Steveâs Colorado home, his neighborhood app erupted. But that creek is a flood-mitigation corridor protecting thousands of homes downstream. Steve reflects on what that moment reveals about leadership...
The good shepherd leaves the 99 to find the one lost sheep, but what happens to the 99 while heâs gone? Reflecting on his first year as CEO, Steve wrestles honestly with the tension between loving individuals and stewarding the health of the whole organization, and shares where heâs landed so far.
A durian Blizzard at a Dairy Queen in Cambodia gave Steve a laugh, and a leadership lesson. Drawing on Jesusâ challenge to the Pharisees about tradition, he reflects on how a forty-year-old organization can tell the difference between traditions worth keeping and habits nobody dares to question.
Recently, Tim and I sat down with our research partners at Meros to talk through exactly what we're measuring and why. It's a longer conversation, but an honest one â including the parts where we don't have it all figured out yet...
When an old friend asked Steve to name MAIâs mission and vision, he stumbled. So he went back to the stories that move him: a mushroom farm in Indonesia, women sharing Scripture and forgiveness, a community that once chased the team away. What he found there was a simpler, truer statement of why MAI exists.
After years of measuring reach, MAI is asking a harder question: what were we actually counting? Hereâs why weâre shifting from counting communities touched to tracking the ones that truly take root.
Reflecting on Jesusâ exchange with the Sadducees in Matthew 22, Steve makes the case that leadershipâs greatest return isnât in buildings, budgets, or quick results. Itâs in people: equipped leaders, mentored young people, and empowered churches whose impact multiplies across families and generations.
Explore MAIâs 2025 Annual Report and see the impact your partnership made possible last year. In his introduction, CEO Steve Otradovec reflects on his first year leading MAI and shares where the ministry is headed next: going deeper rather than wider, through a new framework called Transformation Hubs.
When the city tore out a beaver dam near Steveâs Colorado home, his neighborhood app erupted. But that creek is a flood-mitigation corridor protecting thousands of homes downstream. Steve reflects on what that moment reveals about leadership...
The good shepherd leaves the 99 to find the one lost sheep, but what happens to the 99 while heâs gone? Reflecting on his first year as CEO, Steve wrestles honestly with the tension between loving individuals and stewarding the health of the whole organization, and shares where heâs landed so far.
A durian Blizzard at a Dairy Queen in Cambodia gave Steve a laugh, and a leadership lesson. Drawing on Jesusâ challenge to the Pharisees about tradition, he reflects on how a forty-year-old organization can tell the difference between traditions worth keeping and habits nobody dares to question.
Recently, Tim and I sat down with our research partners at Meros to talk through exactly what we're measuring and why. It's a longer conversation, but an honest one â including the parts where we don't have it all figured out yet...
When an old friend asked Steve to name MAIâs mission and vision, he stumbled. So he went back to the stories that move him: a mushroom farm in Indonesia, women sharing Scripture and forgiveness, a community that once chased the team away. What he found there was a simpler, truer statement of why MAI exists.
After years of measuring reach, MAI is asking a harder question: what were we actually counting? Hereâs why weâre shifting from counting communities touched to tracking the ones that truly take root.
Reflecting on Jesusâ exchange with the Sadducees in Matthew 22, Steve makes the case that leadershipâs greatest return isnât in buildings, budgets, or quick results. Itâs in people: equipped leaders, mentored young people, and empowered churches whose impact multiplies across families and generations.
Explore MAIâs 2025 Annual Report and see the impact your partnership made possible last year. In his introduction, CEO Steve Otradovec reflects on his first year leading MAI and shares where the ministry is headed next: going deeper rather than wider, through a new framework called Transformation Hubs.
When the city tore out a beaver dam near Steveâs Colorado home, his neighborhood app erupted. But that creek is a flood-mitigation corridor protecting thousands of homes downstream. Steve reflects on what that moment reveals about leadership...
The good shepherd leaves the 99 to find the one lost sheep, but what happens to the 99 while heâs gone? Reflecting on his first year as CEO, Steve wrestles honestly with the tension between loving individuals and stewarding the health of the whole organization, and shares where heâs landed so far.
A durian Blizzard at a Dairy Queen in Cambodia gave Steve a laugh, and a leadership lesson. Drawing on Jesusâ challenge to the Pharisees about tradition, he reflects on how a forty-year-old organization can tell the difference between traditions worth keeping and habits nobody dares to question.
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