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Taking school-age children to a new culture is risky yet missionary parents who look ahead can reduce the trauma.

Symbolic anthropology has important implications for missionaries who need to understand local culture.

I use “semi-literate” to mean anyone who can’t write in the language he can read and speak. Often that’s his second language. These people have fabulous treasures of stories, but they can’t write marketable manuscripts.

Strategically, we have to admit that there is a serious roadblock to world evangelization when the existing church cannot minister effectively to minorities.

Strange is it may seem, the church is holding up world evangelization.

Few mission agencies rigidly define how the children of their missionaries are to be educated. This doesn’t mean that they don’t care about it. On the contrary, they have a growing sensitivity to the complex issues surrounding the education of MKs (missionary kids) on the field.

When it comes to planting churches in Europe, what should a missionary do? There are at least four possibilities.

After World War II, North American missionaries discovered a new mission field—Western Europe.

We might as well not have church services on Ecuadorian holidays,” complained my friend, “because only gringos were there today.”

Homer Firestone shares his unique insights into the task of evangelism in indigenous cultures.