The late Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was one of the most important and influential missionary-theologians of the twentieth century. We are grateful to Wainwright and his publishers for bringing to light these lectures and doing such a fine job of introduction, redaction, and publication.
Today, I am concerned for missionaries in service-type ministries who must satisfy supporting churches and justify their financial support by adding on a church planting activity to an already busy schedule.
Several years ago I sat in a class taught by Paul Hiebert as he pled for missionaries in a global era to recognize that emerging churches around the world should not just be self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating, but should also be self-theologizing.
The author discusses whether or not there is a calling to missions.
In the late 1990s some GenXers who were serving God in various mission organizations found each other and began discussing their experiences and perceptions.
We would love to teach at an MK school,” the couple shared. “If it wasn’t for this support-raising thing. Why should we have to beg churches for money? It’s humiliating!”
From “Seized at Dawn” to “Going Home,” we walk and run with Gracia and Martin Burnham through the Philippine jungle for over a year.
Welcome to the information age. As the baby-boomer generation ages, my generation, Generation X, is beginning to establish itself as the next generation. So far this has not been a particularly comfortable passing of the baton.
How can we get more of those under age thirty involved in and committed to global, cross-cultural missions?
Missions may not be in their vocabulary, but students are searching for their “mission in life.”
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