“I have read your three articles on the Roma people,” she wrote me from California in September of 2013. “I now have the burden to encourage the Chinese Church to care about the Roma people.”
by Werner Mischke Mission ONE, 2015. —Reviewed by Soojin Chung, PhD student, Boston University. Werner Mischke utilizes his extensive experiences in the Middle East to construct a biblical paradigm
“Don’t make ripples, make waves” said Van, an elderly, Californian, ocean-loving product of the Jesus Movement. Van mentored a number of hippies who would “go into the world to make disciples of all nations.” My passion for the Church in the Global South and its role in missions began with those words when I was serving in Mexico.
by Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, K.K. Yeo, eds. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014. —Reviewed by Michael Hakmin Lee, PhD, adjunct professor, Intercultural Studies, Lincoln Christian University.
I was making my way across Cuba in a Tico, which has the interior space the size somewhere in between a toaster and a VW beetle. My companion was Otoniel Martinez and we were headed to Camaguey to train thirty-five leaders to begin new churches. Otoniel had planted twenty-seven churches despite the resistance of persecution.
by Patrick W. T. Johnson IVP Academic, 2015. —Reviewed by Dennis J. Horton, associate professor, Religion; associate director, Ministry Guidance, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. The significant shift in Western
Iraq is suffering, Assyria is in pain. Biblically, the Assyrian Empire was stretching all over the Middle East, including Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and parts of Iran, and some other regions. As the Bible talks about doom in Assyria and Iraq, we can sense strongly that the children there are resurrecting hope, peace, and forgiving those who trespass against them. They are Christ-like.
A line up of the articles in the October 2015 issue of EMQ.
I write as a follow up to Gene Daniel’s important contribution on shahada confession, which appeared in the July 2014 issue of EMQ. The author notes that among Christian missionaries “there is disagreement about whether a believer in Christ can, with a clear conscience, say the second half, that Muhammad is his [God’s] messenger.”
The concept of North American missionaries serving overseas as part of a team is popular. The present generation of missionaries feels more comfortable working with others rather than launching out on their own. Mission agencies have picked up on this phenomenon and recruit people to be a part of a team for their organization as a mission strategy. While the idea is admirable, what is the difference between a team and a group?
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