For agencies to thrive in the future, partnerships must be more and more at the core of strategy, and those partnerships must focus on deeper involvement with local churches.
Just as a building is only as strong as its foundation, a ministry is only as strong as the vision and resources behind it.
In large parts of North America, there is not only a new public ignorance or casual disregard of Christianity, but there is a disdain for Christianity and its perceived record of judgementalism and divisiveness within the culture. Christianity is no longer the consensus religion it once was in the West.
Hospitable cross-cultural ministries go beyond simply providing a warm and inviting atmosphere.
There is one unreached people group that surpasses all of the above: the orphaned children.
In the postmodern West, however, it has become increasingly common not only to question what is true, but also what we mean by truth in the first place.
Mission leaders need hard data to help them exercise good stewardship of both the financial and human resources entrusted to them. This study of the compensation practices helps them do just that.
by John Mark Terry and J. D. Payne. Baker Academic, P.O. Box 6278, Grand Rapids, MI 49516, 304 pages, 2013, $26.99. —Reviewed by Gerald Roe, associate professor, Intercultural Studies,
The Chinese churches are at critical point in their mission outreach. Awakened and zealous, they are bound to supply global Christian mission with new blood and energy.
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