Good Teams, Bad Teams: Under What Conditions Do Missionary Teams Function Effectively?
If and when trust, task conflict, commitment to group decisions, accountability, and group goals can be effective in team building and church planting.
Putting Together a Church-planting Team? Look to Barnabas
A biblical examination of eight aspects from the life of Barnabas for church-planting teams.
Pastoral Care of Missionaries: Turning Theory into Practice
A case study of how the Church Missionary Society of Australia has worked to develop a model of best practice in the pastoral care of missionaries.
Ethical Mission Response to Children at Risk
The author offers three foundational guidelines for workers among children in high-risk situations.
Paulo Freire, an Unlikely Advisor for Short-term Missions
The author considers if five ethical values presented by a left-wing, Brazilian philosopher can be used to better short-term mission trips.
Visualizing Holiness: Using Narrative to Teach Ethical Living
Why stories are often the best tools to teach others how to live holy lives.
When Kingdom Building becomes Empire Building: How Our Witness is Impacted
Three things to be on the lookout for in assessing your kingdom vision.
Justice and Mission: Some Challenging Particulars
There are challenging particulars that must be addressed for our practice of justice and mission to faithfully reflect our calling in Christ.
Our Readers Write…
Prayer Letters to the Home Team
I greatly appreciated Allan Hedberg’s comments on missionary letter writing (“Prayer Letters to the Home Team,” April 2010) and the need to better communicate God’s work with my sending partners.