Editorial
Discipling
By Evelyn Hibbert — The most effective discipling happens in multigenerational community, and the best disciplers come alongside.
Read freeEvangelical Missions Quarterly
The journal written by and for cross-cultural workers. Four issues a year on the questions that come up when the gospel crosses a cultural line.
Written from the field. Read by the field.
- 1964
- First issue published
- 4
- Issues a year: January, April, July, October
- 10–12
- Articles in every issue
- 5x
- More readers call it practical than theoretical
Overview
What EMQ covers
EMQ is where the mission community thinks out loud. Missionaries, agency leaders, trainers, and missiologists write about the work in front of them: discipleship, church planting, evangelism, member care, funding, leadership, and the cultural questions no training manual fully answers.
It’s not an academic journal. Every article is carefully reasoned, and every one is written for the person doing the work.
Who it’s for
- Missionaries serving across cultures
- Agency executives and field leaders
- Church mission pastors and mission teams
- Missions professors, students, and candidates
In every issueOne theme.
One theme.
Many fields.
01
Editorial
The editor frames the theme and why it matters for the work right now.
02
Articles
Ten to twelve articles, most drawn from the author’s own years in ministry.
03
Book reviews
New books read for what they mean in practice, so you know which ones earn your time.
Current issue · July–September 2026 · Volume 62, Issue 3
Discipling
Discipling is rarely a program. It’s a life shared.
Jesus’ disciples walked, ate, and lived with him, then reproduced what they’d seen. This issue asks what that looks like when you’re making disciples across cultures, with authors writing from contexts around the world.
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Six pieces from this issue are open to everyone — one from each category.
Discipling
Five Questions about Disciples and Disciple Making
By Andy Smith — The five questions a missionary trainer keeps being asked: who makes disciples, what the relationship looks like, and whether it is only about spiritual life.
Read freeEvangelism
Introducing God’s Word into Spaces Where People are Looking
By Matthew Summers — Billions live inside the mobile scroll, so the contest is over attention rather than ideas. Short-form video as the first step.
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Remember the Women: The Need to Recognize Gender Dynamics in Church Planting Movement Strategies
By Eliza Kettering — Church planting strategies lean on the family web of relationships, and on speed. Gender changes how that web works.
Read freePartnering
Reframing Mission Support for the Majority World
By Gillian Mwaura (Edube) — African participation in global mission is expanding, and funding models shaped in Minority World contexts will not sustain it.
Read freePrinciples of Practice
Broken Crayons: Learning to Allow People to Discover Meaning in Ways that Make Sense in Their Culture
By Jennifer W. Belcher — A learner-centred, resource-light approach to trauma healing in Papua New Guinea, and what it means for learners anywhere.
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Since 1964
Sixty-two volumes
and counting.
EMQ started in 1963, when a small group of mission leaders talked late into the night at an ice cream shop in Winona Lake, Indiana. The first issue came out in October 1964. Missio Nexus has published it since 2018, and the purpose hasn’t changed: help the mission community learn from each other’s work.
2025 Evangelical Press Association award winner
Write for EMQ
Learned something
the field needs to hear?
EMQ is written by the people doing the work. If you’ve tested an idea, wrestled with a hard question, or watched God move across a cultural line, the editor wants to hear from you. Articles run 2,000 to 3,000 words, and submissions in languages other than English are welcome.
Upcoming themes
- April 2027The need for missiologyDue December 31, 2026
- July 2027Church plantingDue March 31, 2027
- October 2027Interpersonal relationshipsDue June 30, 2027
Articles on any area of cross-cultural ministry are welcome anytime, on theme or not.
EMQ is one benefit.
There are a dozen more — research, the member community, cohorts and groups, and member pricing for the Mission Leaders Conference. Bring your team into the association.