Increasingly, overseas service involves health care, agriculture, economics, education and related community development approaches as the means to do ministry in the country.
The entire concept of making a business of “Christian” weddings has sparked an ongoing and, at times, rather heated debate.
The author assesses three primary training models: Providers (42%), Out-sourcers (31%), and Partners (19%).
We came to Uganda as a traditional rural church planting team, hoping to start a Web movement of evangelical Christ-centered churches through the Busoga region of Uganda.
No one can deny that the widespread growth and adoption of technology in society has heralded a new era with new realities.
Our purpose is not to speak to this issue authoritatively, but to present the problem in hopes that it may stimulate further discussion and management in the larger missions community.
Our wives had just left the room where we had been eating. Once they were out of hearing range, my guest leaned towards me and in a whisper, said, “Jim, I need to talk with you about a very sensitive issue.”
It’s the birthplace of Christ and of the Church. Yet Christians are leaving the Middle East in droves. Sixty percent of believers have emigrated from the region since the 1950s.
Ever since 9/11 we have been bombarded with generalizations as to the peaceful nature of Islam.
In this article I will suggest a few key issues of conversion and then, echoing the perspectives of my friends from Russia and other countries, offer some applications for our approach to cross-cultural evangelism.
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