Best Practices

Forty-five mission executive directors/CEOs participated in an exercise to consider the future challenges for North American missions.

One of the greatest challenges in my ten years as international director of SIM (Serving In Mission) was to find ways for missionaries with radically different assumptions about leadership to work together in harmony.

The Tokyo 2010 Declaration repeatedly states that both the process and product of missions should have at its heart “making disciples of all peoples in this generation.”

An organization that functions well in the partnership culture will be better positioned to manage the variety of partnership scenarios.

Nine principles for creating more healthy leadership transitions.

The following eleven guidelines allow missionaries to maintain the necessary philosophical and methodological freedom in which to fulfill their callings, while simultaneously establishing healthy biblical and missiological parameters in light of the kingdom ethic.

Can the local church and mission agency work together in cross-cultural ministry to the satisfaction of both parties?

The internet allows people to engage in the secret sin of pornography, and it is not until marriages and families are destroyed, jobs are lost, and friendships suffer that people begin to see its ugly consequences.

A four-phased approach to establish excellence in missions.

Missionary agencies are vehicles for the establishment of a missionary vision within the Church and the facilitation of that vision to the world. As such, agencies must manifest the commitment to high quality in their work.