Who Cares about Prayer?
Two perspectives from veteran missionaries that will provoke thinking—and, we hope, prayer.
Two perspectives from veteran missionaries that will provoke thinking—and, we hope, prayer.
I find scouting and developing Major League ballplayers surprisingly analogous to recruiting and developing major league missionaries.
The concept of partnership in mission is the focus of discussion and debate across a wide spectrum of mission agencies. This article looks at issues of partnership as expressed in the sending and receiving of personnel in cross-cultural mission.
Access to information is becoming increasingly synonymous with the world’s definition of success and power.
One of missionaries’ greatest concerns today is their children’s education, an issue to which mission agencies are becoming increasingly sensitive.
Two half-truths: (1) Church planting among Muslims is an impossible task; and (2) God must intervene in a special way to reveal how to do it.
How can I help people whose dignity and potential are being denied them because of dependency arising from paternalistic giving?
Three principal areas to look at when talking about mobilizing Christian Africa to touch the world for Christ.
I am a third-generation missionary. My grandmother rode yaks in Tibet. And my mother rode jeeps in Indonesia. Missions is in my blood, a heritage I wish to pass on to my three daughters. Women did as much, went as far, and died on the fields as often as their male missionary peers.
A neutral term I have coined, “missiocracy,” means simply the rule or governance of missions.
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