Contextualization Can Be Messy
By John Devalve | My wife and I lived in remote predominantly Muslim region of West Africa with few believers for more than a decade. Not long after …
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Grafted Together to Fulfill God’s Mission
By Christi Trimbur | Kinship unity develops when diverse members graft together to form one entity. When those groups choose to humbly reach out to ea…
Repurposed Wheelchairs Renew Lives
By Mitch Tani and Mary Esther Penner | A vision for recycling wheelchairs gave birth to a ministry in Japan that provides wheelchairs to people in sev…
From Cursed to Co-Laborers: Reframing Disability in African Churches
By Jackie Nyamutumbu Kimani | The theology of the prosperity gospel in African churches often mirrors animistic beliefs especially as it relates to pe…
The Kingdom’s Embrace of People with Disabilities
By “Amos” Ming Raj Gurung | Every person, with or without a disability, matters in the kingdom of God. God has a special focus on those who are we…
Training the Deaf to Take the Gospel to the Deaf
By Matthijs Terpstra | Deaf people in developing nations around the world face formidable challenges. Deaf Ministries International (DMI) has found t…
Image Bearers of God’s Love Unite!
By Jenna Sanderson with Chantelle Sanderson | People with disabilities comprise the largest unreached people group in the world, today. We are also of…
Disability in the Church’s First Mission
By Dave Deuel | After the birth of the church, the first mission begins in Jerusalem with the healing of a man with a disability at the temple gates. …
The Inclusive Missio Dei
By Kim Kargbo | At least 16% of the world’s population has a disability, and only 5–10% of them have heard the gospel. This makes people with di…
Facilitating Dialogue between the Global North and Global South
By Sheryl Takagi Silzer | Global mission teams are becoming more and more multicultural. This presents challenges particularly to the work and relatio…