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On Mission 2022
by Marv Newell. As 2016 comes to a close, we pause to honor and remember those influential and distinguished missionary statespersons who dedicated their lives in the service of the Great Commission. Ted W. Ward, 85, professor of education and missions, ministry consultant, and noted seminar leader, died on January 9, 2016. Ward was professor . . . read more
by Marv Newell I have just returned from visiting two countries in Southeast Asia where I repeatedly heard Western Christian workers use the code word cousins in reference to Muslims. “Let’s remember to pray for our cousins,” “We now have a new outreach to cousins in the north,” and “We need new workers to cousins . . . read more
Posted by Marvin Newell. What is your opinion about the second coming of Christ? How does it inform your missiology? More specifically, how does it relate to your idea of “finishing the task?” Jesus promised us that he would be with us until “the end of the age” (Mt 28:20). Most consider that end will . . . read more
posted by Marv Newell Most of us have heard and even probably have used the idiom, “It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack,” referring to something virtually impossible to find. But what is a haystack? When we drive through the countryside during harvest time we see either rectangular bales or giant round balls . . . read more
Missiologically Aware by Marv Newell William Borden was a 25 year-old handsome bachelor, bright, cultured, and refined at the time of his death in Egypt in 1913. If alive today, he could readily qualify for the TV reality show, The Bachelor, as he was the perfect picture of the millionaire that he actually was, with . . . read more
Posted by Marv Newell, Sr. Vice President, Missio Nexus Here’s a question worth considering … With the spreading decay of Christianity across the West, how is it affecting our confidence in the North American missions movement? And if our confidence is eroding, how is this impacting our long venerated station in the global Christian Movement? . . . read more
Marv Newell, Sr. Vice President, Missio Nexus “The greatest injustice in the world is not giving someone opportunity to hear a clear presentation of the gospel.” Most likely you have heard this statement, which is becoming more and more a cliché, in some form or other. But its increasing commonness does not minimize its truism. . . . read more
Marv Newell, Sr. V.P. Missio Nexus Some would be shocked to question that any effort to evangelize could ever be sinful. Is it possible that intentional outreach, the centerpiece of world evangelization, could at times be wrong? After all, is not the primary responsibility of believers to evangelize all peoples, in all places, at all . . . read more
I am neither a prophet, nor the son of a prophet. But, looking over the landscape of global missions, I would like to offer an informed prediction of what is in store for gospel advance in 2016. Because the globalization of missions and ministry continues unabated, we can be optimistic about what 2016 will bring. . . . read more
When my wife and I arrived almost 40 years ago as young, novice missionaries on the island of Irian Jaya – now called Papua – Indonesia, we had a steep learning curve ahead of us. Becoming bicultural, bilingual and familiar with the people’s starkly different worldview was just a part. One thing we did not . . . read more
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