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A veteran missions director shares six challenges the North American Church faces concerning world missions—and how to deal with these challenges.

Most successful businesses have clearly articulated their mission and vision statements. Most have also implemented a strategic plan that will help accomplish their organization’s mission and vision. The Church has had a vision statement for over two thousand years.

Providing ethical and responsible member care to mission/aid staff is crucial to the health and well-being of both the individual and the organization.

Seeing ministry as “divine art” greatly impacts the way missionaries mentor those in their care.

Understanding the five major challenges the Church faces today: urbanization, world unemployment, hunger, AIDS and the relevance of the Christian faith.

A former missionary kid reflects on what it means to “lay one’s children on the altar” for service to God.

When I began my missionary career in the Philippines in 1986, making a long-distance telephone call was a major project. Very few private homes had telephones so there weren’t many people to call anyway.

Our generation is seeing fewer and fewer missionaries spend their entire missionary career in one place.

The Crusades are one of the saddest moments in the history of the world, when the Church found itself being carried away by geopolitical, spiritual, financial and cultural factors.

Sometimes you’ve just got to go back to the basics. When Vince Lombardi, former coach of the National Football League’s Green Bay Packers, wanted to stop the team’s losing streak, he started by telling his players, “This is a football.”