Engaging Women in Mission Leadership
As an increasing number of mission agencies desire to involve more gifted women as decision-makers in their executive and board leadership structures, they are experiencing difficulty in finding them. How can we create more avenues to find, develop, support, and retain more gifted women to bring the perspective and talent that we desire for our organizations?
Fresh Expressions of Church
We aren’t mad at the Masons. We’re not at odds with the Odd Fellows. And we’ve got no beef with the Moose.The two of us just aren’t going to join the Masonic Temple, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, or the Moose Lodge. No matter how well they decorate their meeting places. No matter how well their speakers speak. We’re just not going. For one thing, their rituals seem rather peculiar to us as outsiders. More importantly, we simply don’t see that they offer us any value. Again, we aren’t in opposition to them; we’re just not going to go to their meetings or join their ranks.
Discovering the Secret Stories of God:
The woman told me her story quietly as we huddled around the table in her cramped home in Serbia. She was younger than me, and yet her face bore the deeply worn evidence of hardship and struggle for survival. Like many other Romani people in Eastern Europe, she was impoverished and illiterate, and I found myself completely captured by her story. Married at 16, she had her first of seven children at 17. Both of the men who fathered her children were abusive alcoholics.
Holistic Church Planting: Moving Beyond Polemics to Obedience
The author shows how unclear constructs hurt the cause of integration, and suggests a more fundamental point of integration for church planting and social action.
The Break Through Process: Reflections of a Missiological Field Research Coach
A simplified, yet thorough method for small-scale and personal research in missions.
Implications of Three Models of Contextualization for Local Ministry
An analysis of local attempts at theologizing within a cultural context is a tool for establishing foci for ministry.
The Power of Biblical Storytelling
Jesus was the master storyteller. He often taught people in the form of parables. Shouldn’t we do the same?
Saying the Shahada: Matters of Conscience, Creed, and Communication
Although reinterpreting Muhammad’s prophethood may lead us to a more respectful witness, we must remember that it is no witness at all if we intentionally miscommunicate.
The Chinese Church: The Next Superpower In World Mission?
The Chinese churches are at critical point in their mission outreach. Awakened and zealous, they are bound to supply global Christian mission with new blood and energy.
How Much is Adequate? In Search of Equitable Missionary Compensation
Mission leaders need hard data to help them exercise good stewardship of both the financial and human resources entrusted to them. This study of the compensation practices helps them do just that.