In oral societies, the community will either work with you or against you depending on the extent to which you have worked your way into the networking system.
Now be honest. Have you ever thought that missionaries who lasted only one term on the field were wimps? Or even worse, what about those who didn’t even last a term?
It’s difficult to imagine a class of people less understood than missionary families, unless maybe it’s missionaries in general.
South African pastors share reasons why they feel continued missionary presence in Africa has a negative effect.
Although operating in three very different worlds the Muslim woman, the Muslim woman who trusts Christ, and the missionary woman to Muslims all share in the basic human responses to their situations.
Principles that will mark leadership development programs.
How effective is this increasing trend in internationalization?
We should all be interested and prayerfully engaged with everything that is taking place (or not taking place) to exalt God’s name and to build his Church around the world.
Our focus in this article is how international mission agencies can work together in functional collaborative partnerships.
This February I attended a symposium in Pasadena sponsored by Christian Leadership Exchange, which sought to bring together Christians in China and the West to discuss and pray about ways to improve communication and understanding between Western evangelicals and members of China’s official church.
Sign up for my newsletter to see new photos, tips, and blog posts.
