missions mobilization

Ralph D. Winter: The Entrepreneurial Mobilizer

Kurtis Amundson July 1, 2018

Most people who know something about the late missiologist Ralph Winter, know about his Lausanne 1974 plenary address on unreached peoples (Winter 1975). Some know him from his reinvigorating the discussion about church and mission structures—which he called Sodalities and Modalities (Winter 1974). Still others know him because of his foundational work on Theological Education by Extension (TEE) in the 1960s (Winter 1969).

Degrees of Partnership

Kurtis Amundson July 1, 2018

Partnership is something we long for but often have a difficult time defining. North American churches and organizations are seeking to partner with the global community in ever increasing degrees, yet partnership is often a broad elusive term that can be defined very differently depending on the context.

Rites of Passage: Building a Mobilization Team in Your Church

Kurtis Amundson July 1, 2018

Rites of Passage is a foreign concept to most evangelical churches, literally and figuratively. Somewhere along the way, the local church has lost this important value. Rites of passage are still common among institutions like fraternities and sororities, military and civic organizations. A few church traditions have kept this concept of development for their youth and new converts. The Catholic Church has baptism, catechism, and first Communion. The Jewish bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah still help young people move along the pathways of their faith. The Mormons (LDS) have elderships, Melchizedek priesthood, and the ever-present two-year mission after high school.

Shaping Christianity in Greater China: Indigenous Christians in Focus

Kurtis Amundson July 1, 2018

By Paul Woods. Reviewed by John Doss, senior pastor, Discovery Christian Community, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Mobilizing God’s People for God’s Mission

Kurtis Amundson July 1, 2018

In December 2015, more than two hundred forty leaders involved in mission mobilization from more than thirty countries gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the second Global Mobilization Consultation (GMC). To better welcome many different kinds and styles of mobilization and mobilizers, this paper was written before the event in order to provide a simple but clear idea of mission, along with a broad, descriptive definition of mobilization emerging from scripture and practice. Leaders from several countries worked together to produce this paper, with some modifications made at the event. The lead author was Steven C. Hawthorne.

The Godless Delusion: Europe and Africa

Kurtis Amundson July 1, 2018

By Jim Harries. Reviewed by Prof. Rajkumar Boaz Johnson, PhD Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies North Park University, Visiting Professor SHIATS University Allahabad, India.

Spirituality in Mission: Embracing the Lifelong Journey

Kurtis Amundson July 1, 2018

John Amalraj, Geoffrey W. Hahn, and William D. Taylor, eds. Reviewed by Tabor Laughlin, Intercultural Studies PhD student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), missionary in China ten years, leader of a small mission agency in NW China, and author of Becoming Native to Win the Natives.

Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, 3rd Edition

Kurtis Amundson July 1, 2018

By David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken, and Michael V. Pollock. Reviewed by Cheryl Doss PhD, adult missionary kid, missionary mother and grandmother, is director of the Institute of World Mission, the missionary training organization of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America

Kurtis Amundson July 1, 2018

By David A Hollinger. Reviewed by Richard Cook, Associate Professor of Church History and Missions at Logos Evangelical Seminary in El Monte, California. He served as a missionary in Taiwan for over ten years and has a PhD in Modern Chinese History from the University of Iowa.