WILLIAM TAYLOR — PRESIDENT

DIP - MOODY | BA - NTU | THM - DTS | PHD - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

Born and raised in Latin America, with seventeen years’ service in leadership training in Guatemala at Seminario Teológico Centroamericano (SETECA), Bill Taylor served the Missions Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance for thirty years, twenty years as its Executive Director and ten as Senior Mentor. That season concluded in December 2016.

As founder and president of TaylorGlobalConsult he is now fully released to focus primarily on mentoring, writing and consulting. Teaching and speaking now fall into a secondary priority. Bill has served the missionary movement for 55 years in several capacities: university student work (USA and Latin America), theological education, leadership development, church planting, global networking, teaching, consulting, mentoring, writing and speaking. With board approval, he spends 50% of his time with the innovative Spanish-language apologetics platform based in Guatemala, CRUX Institute. His other commitments focus on mentoring, writing, and serving the Guatemala-based CRUX Institute apologetics ministry.

Watch and listen as Bill briefly tells his story in his own words. This video was shown at the Missio Nexus “Lifetime of Service” award celebration in September 2018.

PRIME STRATEGIC SERVICES

TaylorGlobalConsult has focused five arenas stated below which mark its mission, core values, services and future. Bill currently is focusing his life on mentoring, writing and some consulting, with limited investment in teaching and speaking.

In this latter stage of Bill’s journey, he is focusing more on intentional mentoring, writing from his own experience and passions, and consulting. While Bill is open for other ministry doors to open, those emphases take a background role now. Mentoring and writing in particular represent his legacy and leadership investment in the future.

Bill defines mentoring as intentional, designed, selected, regular investment in people’s lives. He calls them The Community of the Cross. Currently he currently has two mentoring cohorts in Latin America and two in the USA.

In terms of writing, God’s call on Bill for nearly forty years was to open doors for others writers—especially from the Global South—to be published, thus allowing their voices to be heard. During his decades with the WEA Mission Commission, his strapline was “Global voices for global issues”. Now the Spirit has given freedom to write from his own lifelong experience, service and passions. His first book, for family and the Taylor’s support team, is called My Father’s Shoes: the Journey of a Global Pilgrim. The second half of that memoir has been recast and rewritten, Leading from Below: Lessons from the Crucible of Global Mission, to be published by Regnum Press.

Strategic alliances will share TGC’s mission and core values, and thus expand its vision and scope of service. TaylorGlobalConsult is honored to partner with the Guatemala-based CRUX Institute, a new and strategic ministry defending the family, ethics and Christian thinking within the context of the Spanish-speaking world. Bill has been part of the conception and birthing of the CRUX Institute and serves on its executive board.

Strategic initiatives will share TGC’s mission and core values, and thus expand its vision and scope of service.

PARTNERSHIP WITH the CRUX INSTITUTE

TaylorGlobalConsult is honored to partner with the Guatemala-based CRUX Institute, a new and strategic ministry defending the family, ethics and Christian thinking within the context of the Spanish-speaking world. Bill has been part of the conception and birthing of the CRUX Institute and serves on its executive board.

The TGC Associate is one of the relationships where TGC invests financially in select missional leaders in the Global South. The TGC Scholarship Program invests in Global South leaders in pursuit of their doctoral studies.

TGC RESOURCES

Find reading material from Bill’s various publications. Watch speeches and instructional videos Bill has created over his career.

BLOG

Bill periodically expands his reflections and concerns to inform and shape Christian thinking and practice. Its focus is missional, examining issues related to the church of Christ on the move, locally and globally.