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Operation World by Patrick Johnstone is essential even for numerically-challenged people like me.

In today’s America, missionary appointees have great opportunities for significant cross-cultural ministry experience before they go overseas.

Productive economic activity is a means to enhance and support Christian ministry.

Partnership, Self-reliance, Accountability, Dependency. These are buzzwords that came to dominate table talk about missions in the last decade of the previous millennium. The changing face of missions has demanded them.

In the summer of 1998 one of my brightest Czech students, Petra, wrote my family from England about an important milestone in her spiritual odyssey.

Literally hundreds are nondenominational missions and the vast majority of them have no systematic method of compiling and preserving their story.

I felt sick when I heard the accusations of sexual immorality against an African pastor. Church leaders told the pastor to take his annual leave. A month later, the pastor returned to his ministry and things went on as if nothing had happened.

The need to initiate and expand dependable, extensive evangelistic work among expatriates can no longer be disputed.

What are the implications for concerned governments, Muslim-Christian relations, and for missions? What follows are my initial and tentative answers.

How do individuals, churches, or organizations assist, serve and partner with the church in China?