Embracing Diversity and Mutuality: A 40-Year Journey
By Abegail Lyn “Abby” A. Galzote | The mission field is changing as more foreign and national partners work together towards shared goals. The development of Every Community for Christ Philippines offers an example of what this looks like.
Diversity and Mutuality: The Foundation of Transformative Impact
By Heather Denson | Diversity and mutuality are foundational principles that drive the transformative impact of cross-cultural engagement and service. Diversity intertwines a tapestry of cultural perspectives, experiences, and practices. And mutuality nurtures relationships based on respect, reciprocity, and shared learning.
Defining Mutuality in a Missiological Frame
By Ted Esler | Mutuality can be a powerful concept in missiology. It captures a sense of how Christ came to us in his earthly ministry, emptying himself to serve others. Using the word mutuality in missiology requires a different definition than what we find in other areas of interest. Mutuality can inform and speak into our approach to missions and is already being used in various ways by those taking the gospel into new cultures and places.
Colorful Cooperation in Mission
By Mimsie Robinson and Bob Fetherlin | In the last century, monocultural mission became fertile soil in which seeds of colonial domination too often sprouted. Let’s ask God to crucify our pride, our fears, and all other concerns so that we can step out of our comfort zones and become true ambassadors of Christ who initiate and cultivate interracial and intercultural healing.
A Different Kind of Love
By Heather Pubols | Jesus calls everyone who follows him to practice a love that transcends boundaries. Missionaries have demonstrated this for generations as they have crossed ethnic and geographic lines. In contrast, the mission force from North American mission agencies still remains remarkably monochromatic. Why is this, and how can we change it?
God’s Grace Abounds Among the Quechua
By Pío Víctor Campos Barco | Nearly half of Bolivia’s population come from its Indigenous communities of which the Quechua are the largest. Yet gospel resources in Quechua remain limited. While many Quechua people enthusiastically participate in church, few have experienced the transformation of the gospel because they don’t understand it.
Uniting Waves, Transforming Lives: The Three Waves Movement
By Enoque Ozório de Faria and Javier Mayorga Ramirez | Across the Amazon region and lowlands of South America, God has raised up a movement of foreign, national, and Indigenous missionaries that are working in unity to see the Great Commission fulfilled. They long to see all the Indigenous peoples in the Amazon region and lowlands worshiping and glorifying God’s Holy Name as equal parts of Christ’s Body on earth.
An Indigenous Perspective on Unity and Collaboration
By Henrique Dias Terena and César Rodríguez Sáenz | Indigenous Christians are realizing that the church does not belong to any ethnic group. They see that unity and collaboration applies to the whole church and are the way God desires for his people to participate together in what he is doing. And they are joining with their global brothers and sisters as equal partners in participating with God in his global mission.
Stay in the Game: The Role of the North American Church in the Amazon
By Chris and Tina Ferry | Foreign missionaries arriving to serve in the Amazon and lowland region of South America are entering a different mission context than 20 years ago or even 10. Capable and wise Indigenous Christian leaders have a significant presence. Yet while the role of foreign missionaries is different, there is still a place to serve.
Strengthening the Indigenous Church
By Trudy Seng, Meiry Yakawa, and Vera Bergson | In the heart of South America, the Ammi Training Center brings people from diverse tribes together for discipleship and ministry training. Graduates leave with life-long friendships and ready to reach Brazil’s many ethnic groups still waiting to hear of God’s love.