CB GLOBAL LEADERS MEETING
ENLARGE YOUR TERRITORY
Isaiah 54:2-3
CB Yan Yu Church, Hong Kong
October 28-31, 2017

Registration:
 Started at 4:00 PM in City View Hotel (YMCA)
 Doris and her team did an awesome job of having everyone go through a smooth and highly
organized registration of all delegates.
 When everyone have been accounted for, a group photo was taken at the hotel lobby after
which everyone walked with excitement towards CB Yan Yun Church. The casual walk brought
more personal interaction and catching up as pairs or small group pass through busy Nathan
Road during the rush hour.
Welcome Dinner
 The place for dinner was already prepared when we reached the 21 st floor of the building.
Everyone one felt so welcomed as dinner was served and further fellowship during dinner
naturally occurred.
Opening Session
 The “Opening Session” started 15 minutes earlier than planned. A simple, deep and heartfelt
hymn was sung as Rev. Jorge De Ramos perfectly accompanied the group with a guitar. A small
technical sync issue between computers and projectors surfaced but was quickly solved by the
hosts technical team.
 Rev. Reynaldo Avante welcomed delegates from different nations. He encouraged and
presented everyone the theme of the meeting “Enlarge Your Territory.”
 Furthermore, the group was formally and graciously welcomed by the hosting pastor, Rev. Isaac
Liu. An exhortation was done with emphasis from our theme verses – Isaiah 54:2-3.
 The need for the delegates to be reminded why we are meeting and the must of a shared vision
was explained and presented by Rev. Rene Atienza. Summarizing the history of CB Global
throughout the years and explaining key events and decisions that transpired in different
meeting and conferences of CB Global.
 The goal of CB Global and agreements, put together by delegates during the past meetings, was
also presented. The 2012 meeting resolutions have landmarks that were emphasized as pivotal
in moving forward together.
 To rally the younger leadership involvement, the resolutions Tagaytay City 2016 conference was
mentioned and capsulized.
 The purposes of different CB Global gathering (Conference and Leaders Meeting) was redefined
to focus further towards accomplishing the CB Global mission, vision and goals.
 Rev. Atienza connected and enlightened the delegation by connecting present theme in his
presentation. Small groups of 2-3 were formed to pray for the leaders meeting and the nations.
Rev. De Ramos closed the prayer time by praying for the whole group.
Doris, before dismissing the group, reminded the group with what will transpired tomorrow.

Day 2 – Macau 30 th Anniversary
Day 3
1. Praise and Worship
2. Devotion by Rev. Jim Smith
3. Prayer for the Nations:
a. USA
b. Bangladesh
c. Hong Kong
4. Group Facilitation: by Dr. Jorge De Ramos
a. Discovering
b. Dreaming
c. Designing
d. Delivering

Group Facilitations 1
1. DISCOVERING: Using metacards and a marker, answer the following questions. Form 6 groups
and share what each has written.
a. What is our “tent”?
b. What do we thank God for with CBGlobal?
c. What are the strengths of CBGlobal?
d. What keeps CBGlobal going?
Group reports
i. Group 1 - Jim Smith
ii. Group 2 - Andrew
iii. Group 3 - Mark
iv. Group 4 - Kazuki
v. Group 5 - Vicky
vi. Group 6 – John
P. Richard and P. Daniel sorted and summarized the metacards output. Rev. Jorge de
Ramos gave his summary statement as well.

2. DREAMING:
a. What would a large tent (CBGlobal) look like?
b. Describe a CBGlobal “large tent”.
c. How do we see God move CBGlobal?
d. If we will go the extra mile (kilometer), where would we go?
Group reports:

i. Grp 1 - Jim. Collaboration and working together. Sharing of best ideas. Sharing
of pastors and workers.
ii. Grp 2 – Violet. Winning souls, e.g. aged people concern. Youth – raise the
younger gen and recognize their contributions. Promote disciple making. Invite

more national association to join. Go to where there is no CB. Pastoral training
program. CBGlobal international conference.
iii. Grp 3 – Mark. A dream of building the house of God fully develop.
Reaching the nations beyond us and in us. Multiplication of disciples, house
churches and churches. Develop the next generation to leadership. Prayer and
word.
iv. Grp 4 – Kazuki. Sharing more resources to each other. More salvation.
More churches planted. Clearer purpose of CBGlobal.
v. Grp 5 – Vicky. Visit each other more to meet the needs. Invite other nations for
a larger tent (other continents). Focus in training and equipping our youth and
allowing them to do more. Taking mission trips with our young people.
vi. Grp 6 – John. More bridging and networking. Resources. Innovative
ideas. Prayer needs.
Summary: Frank, Rose and Ruth volunteered to put together the cards. They came up
with four major categories.
1. BRIDGE: Collaboration between ministries
2. BUILD: Building up the unity and helping one another.
3. EXTEND: More countries and nations to belong. Partnering with other countries and
more joining from Africa, Europe and other continents.
4. EXPAND: Discovering the nations and reaching out.
Rev. Rene Atienza shared his desire to relinquish his position as a leader and the older
generation must equip and allow the younger generation to lead and be empowered.
“Success without a successor is not a success.” – John Maxwell. Quoted by Frank
Pardue. Kazuki shared that he was so encouraged to hear what Rev. Atienza shared.
Vicky further reminded that we have to have younger leaders in our church or around us
to be involved. Ptr. Richard Cheng, emphasized “immigration of pastor” to a church who
are in more need for a pastor.
3. DESIGNING: What strategies?
1. How do we reach the dream?
2. How are we going to resource these?
3. What are the changes we need to make?
4. What do we need to focus?

Group Reports:
1. Group 1 – Jim.
a. Bridge, tell stories.
b. Build: have a network share what is happening.
c. Extend: help them if we find a need. Build in the line within the need.
d. Extend: invite other countries to come.
2. Group 2 – Violet.
a. Bridge: Have a coordinator. ASAP.
b. Build: Collaborative effort on leadership development, including the youth.
CB International Conference, 2020.
c. Extend: Partnership and networking in church planting. Human resources,
like retired pastors who can go.
d. Expand: Financial support. HK$ 400 plus as seed money. Note: they passed
out an offering bag to collect donations.

3. Group 3 – Mark. “What is” to go to the “what ought to be.” What needs to be
added, to stay, to go, to change.
a. Bridge & Build: Request from World Venture data from the beginning.
Where did we had, and we have work around the globe.
b. Extend: Connect the discovered nation to a near CB nation. Have a
communication coordinator.
c. Expand: They need to host the “new” nation until they want to be part of
CBGlobal.
4. Group 4 – Kazuki.
a. Bridge: Send missionaries or groups to other countries. Maybe other
countries can help other countries and send them to another country. Invite
other countries to speak to your own country and share what God is doing
to other countries.
b. Build: Focus on raising the next generation.
c. Extend: simply sending people to other countries.
5. Group 5 – Vicky.
a. Build: One CB trip to other countries, Philippines to think of one trip to
another, and so on.
b. Build: Pastor from one country to help train and teach in other countries.
c. Extend. Each involved country to bring at least one young leader to the next
CBGlobal leaders.
d. Expand: forming strong prayer group. Share prayer request regularly and
update.
6. Group 6 – Frank.
a. Bridge: Minority groups are all over Asia. Identify diaspora group and
helping them.

b. Build: Learning to celebrate our unity in Christ. Finding ways to visit and
understand countries in a global scale. Develop relationships across each
other. The next generation leaders with congress. Think of bigger scale and
give avenue for them to work together. Also, opportunity of theological
education. Bilinguals, help them.
c. Expand: Go to freer countries where they can go and have the training they
need.
d. Extend: Working with other partners and maximize connections and
connect them. Didn’t get to Expanding.

Rev. Rene Atienza suggested that Doris be the CBGlobal coordinator. Mark suggested that the
leadership should meet first and talk to Doris to hear her side.

4. DELIVER: What are action plans?
Meeting of Elected Officers
Present are the following: Dr. Reynaldo Avante, Dr. Jim Smith, Dr. Frank Pardue, Rev. John Kuo, Rev.
Yukimasa Otomo and Rev. Randolph Velasquez.
Suggested Action Points:
1. All officers will come up with their own Job Description by the end of November 2018.
2. Identify a representative for each national/regional network who will act as the point person for
CBGlobal.
3. Every national/regional network will send next generation leaders in the CBGlobal Conference
2018.
4. Have a lists of existing website linked to CBGlobal website. Create one if you don’t have one.
5. Strengthen prayer by sharing praise items and requests every last day of the month.
6. The next CBGlobal Conference will be in October 18-21, 2018.
7. Invite other regional network through World Venture and other national/regional network.
8. Keep record of what God is doing through your regional network and share it to CBGlobal.

Regional Representatives:
Philippines – Dr. Reynaldo Avante
Taiwan – Rev. David Chen
Japan – Rev. Yukimasa Otomo
Bangladesh – Mr. Andrew Adhikary
Mayanmar – Re. Thwang Go Thang
Hong Kong – Mr. KY Tang
Macau – Rev. Richard Cheng will update us next week about the representative
USA – Dr. Jim Smith
Indonesia - ???
World Venture – Dr. Frank Pardue

Action points presentations additional discussion:
1. Country representatives will post their updates and prayers to CBGlobal Facebook page and Dr.
Frank Pardue will pick it up from there.
2. Next CBGlobal Conference, October 18 – 20, October 21, stay on Sunday for preaching and
attending different churches.
3. Note: change to “national/regional network.”
The Action Points was moved by Rev. Rene Atienza and seconded.
Closing Session
Pastor Rey Avante gave the final challenge from the Book of Nehemiah.
Final acknowledgement was given to those who helped made the leaders meeting successful.
Travel announcements and reminders were facilitated by Doris.
It is Ptr David’s birthday and the group sang a song for him. Ptr David Cheng gave a welcome and
invitation to everyone for 2018 CBGlobal Conference.
Closing prayer: Brother Andrew Chao
Lunch was served.