Holistic Ministry: Prioritizing Relationships
By Jim Ritchie | Healthcare missions suffers from a dichotomy of purpose. Is medicine alone an adequate motive as a ministry of compassion? Or are we …
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Faithful Innovation: Lessons from the Tension of Saving Souls and Saving Lives
By Thad Hicks | How can Christians respond to disaster with both compassion and conviction? This article explores the tension between evangelism and h…
Work as Gospel Ministry
By Larry Sharp | Missionary visas are no longer granted for many countries today. At the same time, we are realizing that being a missionary is not li…
Welcome to the Land of Goshen – A Biblical Model of God’s Provision for Climate Migrants
By David Kimiti, Safia Kimiti, and Ian Ratcliff | Genesis 47 outlines the way that God provided for the people of Israel in response to a climatic eve…
Proclaiming the Holistic Gospel: Communicating the gospel appropriately for people from diverse cultures in the US
By Soo Min (James) Park | The US, like many nations, is not a mono-cultural mission field. Beneath the surface, immigrant, refugee, minority, and youn…
Prioritizing Relationships over Resources
By Terry Jackson | This article emphasizes that while resources are abundant and valuable, their effective application depends on relationships. Relat…
The Past and Future of Funding Missions: From Everywhere to Everywhere – National Workers vs. Missionaries
By Scott Klingsmith | The direct support of national pastors and missionaries by American and European churches has been promoted as a more efficient …
Strategies for Managing Stress in Urban Mission Contexts
By John E. White | As the world urbanizes, more missionaries are living and ministering in cities. Therefore, more missionaries are encountering the s…
Recovering Monastic Values for Mission Today
By Edward L. Smither | In this article, I explore two values of historic monastic mission – study and simplicity – that contributed to missionary …
Healing the Wounds of Trauma
By Harriet Hill | In 2001, a small group met in Nairobi to put together materials to respond to traumatized people in war zones across Africa. This pr…