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Reporting Challenges for Movements in a World of Misinformation and Persecution

admin September 20, 2023

By Stan Parks | Globally, 1,965 church planting movements (CPMs) are being reported, with approximately 90% of these among current or former unreached people groups. These reports have been compiled by the 24:14 Coalition. Our primary goal has been to find out where the unreached are being reached so we can identify the gaps where the unreached are not being reached. But in the process, we have shared information about movements, globally and regionally, which has led to some people feeling frustrated when they cannot know more.

Movement Catalysts’ Self-Awareness – A Factor in Fruitfulness

admin September 20, 2023

By Gene Daniels and Emanuel Prinz | Healthy self-awareness is a key quality of effective pioneer missionaries such as movement catalysts because cultural awareness relies heavily on healthy self-awareness. Research shows that effective movement catalysts demonstrate mature self-awareness concerning their personal traits and ministry competencies, and are especially aware of their own shortcomings.

Enduring Redemptive Communities

admin September 20, 2023

By Ronald and Carolyn Klaus | Over time, the church has repeatedly devolved into structures more geared to attracting and inspiring people than to transforming and mobilizing them. Unless we take deliberate steps to prevent it, many of the movements toward God among unreached people groups that we now celebrate could follow the same pattern. Redemptive communities can prevent or at least postpone this process.

The Global Impact of George Verwer

admin June 19, 2023

By David Greenlee and Greg Kernaghan | George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilisation, passed away on April 14, 2023. His impact in global missions reverberated far beyond the boundaries of OM. God used him to help shape its multicultural and multinational the future.

Was Paul a ‘Missionary’?

admin June 19, 2023

By Phil King | Michael Stroope’s book, Transcending Mission, offers a semantic challenge on the use of the words mission, missionary and missional. He believes we distort history when we use these words to describe biblical people and activities. Using a cognitive linguistic lens, we can evaluate his claims .

Bible Studies Don’t Fix Religious Persecution

admin June 19, 2023

By Helene Fisher and Elizabeth Lane Miller | Walking away from current beliefs into new ones is never neutral. In places where Christian faith is unwelcomed or illegal, following Jesus has implications for everything. In order to offer better support and help strengthen the church, missionaries walking with these believers must grow in awareness of persecution dynamics.

Ambiguous Loss in Missionary Life

admin March 28, 2023

By Nancy R. Mauger | Missionaries living away from their passport countries often experience a phenomenon known as ambiguous loss. This term, which developed in the 1970s, fits missionary life well. Global workers can experience a loss from leaving their passport nation, but it is still there.

The Role of Pastoral Visits in Missionary Member Care

admin March 28, 2023

By Ed Grudier | While both agencies and churches can engage in member care with their missionaries, churches can focus more on personal care. Field visits can be a particularly impactful aspect of member care. These visits can bring missionaries hope and strength when they are need, while also providing pastors first-hand experience in the life of a missionary their church supports first hand.

Translating for Transformation: The Missional Impulse of Translation

admin March 28, 2023

By Paul K. Kimbi | Missions includes church planting, evangelism, reconciliation, and much more. Bible translation programs aim to do all of these things, yet they can be seen as periphery to real mission work. Does Bible translation have a missional impulse that is essential to long-term transformation of individuals and communities?

(Mis)Understanding the Need

admin March 28, 2023

By David Chakranarayan | Two-thirds of Christians in the US say they have not heard of the Great Commission. Even fewer could roughly estimate the number of unreached people groups in the world. And while 85% of pastors believe missions is a mandate for all, more than half of all Christians in the US believe it is a calling only for some.

Reporting Challenges for Movements in a World of Misinformation and Persecution

Movement Catalysts’ Self-Awareness – A Factor in Fruitfulness

Enduring Redemptive Communities

The Global Impact of George Verwer

Was Paul a ‘Missionary’?

Bible Studies Don’t Fix Religious Persecution

Ambiguous Loss in Missionary Life

The Role of Pastoral Visits in Missionary Member Care

Translating for Transformation: The Missional Impulse of Translation

(Mis)Understanding the Need

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