Editorial: Boarding School’s Demise?
This morning's paper carried a picture of a weather-beaten, dilapidated one-room school near here. It looked like it belonged in the Smithsonian. For …
Month: October 1994
The Hard Road to Missions Vision in National Churches
Changes have to come not only in the churches, but among the missionaries as well.
The Honor of Listening: Indispensable for Mission
One-sided nationalistic vision hinders global perspective and partnership in mission.
Sundanese Migrants: Despised Minority or Urban Opportunity?
A case study shows how conditions in the chaotic Indonesian megacity of Bandung mitigated against a migrant Sundanese Christian family's finding help …
About Research with Mk’s
Missionary research is getting a bad name, especially as it relates to missionary kids (MKs).
MK Nurture Is Just as Much a Part of the Ministry as Are Literacy Classes or Church Planting.
This article is a response to the EMQ article, "About Research with MKs," by David Wickstrom," October 1994.
Producing an Effective Prayer Card
It's one of those projects that often gets put off until furlough looms. Or it's a requirement of new missionaries who have so many other new and conf…
How to Build Prayer Support Groups
Church life in North America is changing and some of these changes are welcome. Less welcome is the tendency for prayer meetings to get dropped becaus…
Fiesta!
Do missionaries dance? Let me tell you about it. It was an unusual Sunday because Javier and Chelo Martinez had just finished building a new house.