Increasingly, overseas service involves health care, agriculture, economics, education and related community development approaches as the means to do ministry in the country.

It’s the birthplace of Christ and of the Church. Yet Christians are leaving the Middle East in droves. Sixty percent of believers have emigrated from the region since the 1950s.

Our wives had just left the room where we had been eating. Once they were out of hearing range, my guest leaned towards me and in a whisper, said, “Jim, I need to talk with you about a very sensitive issue.”

Our purpose is not to speak to this issue authoritatively, but to present the problem in hopes that it may stimulate further discussion and management in the larger missions community.

No one can deny that the widespread growth and adoption of technology in society has heralded a new era with new realities.

We came to Uganda as a traditional rural church planting team, hoping to start a Web movement of evangelical Christ-centered churches through the Busoga region of Uganda.

The entire concept of making a business of “Christian” weddings has sparked an ongoing and, at times, rather heated debate.