In January I spent the week in Malaysia, at meetings of the Asia Pacific Baptist Federation. The APBF represents 60 different Baptist groups in 22 countries with over 33,000 local churches. The conference was a meeting of three subcommittees within APBF – Theology, Mission and Development. I was there for the development meetings, but I admit I snuck into some of the others to see what they were doing! The APBF region covers a huge area stretching from Korea, Japan and China across to India,...