Leading Ideas Talks “Global Leadership Lessons for the American Church” featuring Taylor Walters Denyer
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Feb 10, 2026 Taylor Walters Denyer, a missiologist, pastor, and global nomad who teaches and researches decolonizing partnerships. She contrasts U.S. leadership with community-based discipleship from the DRC. She argues for mission-centered seminary training. She reflects on neurodivergent leadership strengths and the call to regulate, rest, and simply be with people in crisis.
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Role Supporting Bishop And Conferences
- Taylor serves as Executive Assistant to Bishop Mande Mouyombo with responsibility for Anglophone relations and missionary coaching.
- She supports work across Tanzania, North Katanga, and the new Upemba annual conference launching in 2025.
Global Perspective Reveals Patterns
- Long-term cross-cultural ministry reveals patterns you miss inside a single context.
- Taylor credits global experience with enabling clearer, outside-in assessments of U.S. church practices.
Block-Based Congregational Life
- In North Katanga congregations, members are assigned geographic blocks and meet weekly in homes for follow-up and tasks.
- Blocks receive marching orders from worship announcements for visiting hospitals, consoling families, and janitorial duties.