Modality-Sodality: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Church
By Sara Salloum |In 2009, Ralph Winter introduced the terms modality to describe the local church fellowship and sodality to describe what we now call…
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Mobilizing Ordinary Christians to Evangelize Through Online Connections
By Aaron Myers | In this era of missions, we do not have to move house and jobs to connect with people in other countries. Using social media to respo…
Moving Beyond “Pray, Give, or Go”
By Steven P. Steinhaus | Even if you cannot go overseas as a traditional missionary, you can still do more than pray and give. Steinhaus outlines four…
Social Action in Muslim Contexts: Why Should We Care?
By Jean-Pierre Maure | Just as Jesus did not separate social action from his ministry, Christians working among Muslims should live out their faith th…
The Harvest Problem
By Richard G. Lewis | As the Great Commission requires us to reach all peoples of the earth with the gospel, we need to address intentionally the shor…
Reflecting on Organizational Change: Frontiers as a Case Study
By Steve and Kitty Holloway | Frontiers started as a new organization focusing on reaching Muslim peoples through team ministry more than 40 years ago…
The Challenges of Integrating New Mission Sending and Old Mission Organizations
By Maria Lopez | Based on significant personal experience interfacing between traditional international western sending agencies and new sending natio…
How Can Western Churches Still Contribute to World Mission?
By Stewart Hunt | Whilst most agree that the future of mission involves global collaboration, the role of the Western church has become unclear. Howev…
Developments in Mission Sending from China
By Brent Fulton | Hundreds of Mainland Chinese Christians serve as missionaries around the world and thousands more minister among China’s unreached…
The Arts in Conversation with First Nations Peoples
By Jhonny A. Nieto Ossa | Finding and encouraging Indigenous cultural expressions that harmonize with Christian faith rather than bringing in and teac…