About Naomi Dowdy

As told by J. Lee Grady

Editor of Charisma magazine and director of the Mordecai Project

 

Almost 40 years ago a young missionary from Tennessee named Naomi Dowdy ventured to the Marshall Islands to begin her ministry. She battled loneliness, sickness and culture shock while learning to love rice, Chinese noodles and all things Asian. She eventually built a church in Singapore that grew to 5,000 members in 30 years.

After turning the leadership of Trinity Christian Centre over to one of the many leaders she has trained through the years - the one she believed to be God’s choice to succeed her as senior pastor - Naomi increased her travels all over the world, teaching pastors how to grow churches. Today, while many women her age are taking dream vacations or playing bingo with friends, Naomi is more passionate than ever about claiming nations for Jesus.

How I wish there were more Naomi Dowdys in the world.

I have had the privilege of sitting under Naomi’s teaching ministry and sharing the pulpit with her for the last two years, and she has become a true spiritual mother in my life. I have traveled to Malaysia, Indonesia and Eastern Europe with her to do conferences. She has offered me valuable counsel about my own ministry. And she is helping a younger generation of church leaders to shift into higher levels of effectiveness.

Naomi is a woman of faith who has walked through the many stages of spiritual maturity. If anyone is qualified to speak on the subject of moving to a higher level in God, she is a prime candidate. That’s why I know her books are going to be so important in the lives in the lives of emerging leaders.

Today Naomi has countless spiritual sons and daughters ministering all over the globe. And her life is now inspiring a new generation of leaders who are called to be world-changers.

The Moving On and Moving Up books will equip you in many practical ways to move to the next level and to become the leader you were meant to be.

- J. Lee Grady, from the foreword of Moving On and Moving Up

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