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…
Revamping the C-Spectrum for Contextualization
By Harley Talman | The C-Spectrum introduced more than 20 years ago provided a tool to categorize different types of Christ-centered communities among…
Urban Collaborative Ecosystems for Missions
By Don Allsman | God is sending hundreds of unreached people groups (UPGs) from their homelands to other parts of the globe. These UPG communities are…
Developing Culturally Intelligent Mission Organizations
By Luke Lundstedt | The world is changing as people from around the world work together side-by-side. Mission organizations must adapt to accommodate …
Navigating Between Worlds
By David R. Dunaetz | Understanding acculturation strategies helps missionaries know what they personally experience and what members of a diaspora co…
God’s Mission Story Centers on Fellowship
By Collin Cornell | Does God’s faithfulness end when our usefulness runs out? While most Christians would deny this, the way we tell the story of Go…
Missionaries as Needy Patrons
By Tamie Davis and Moyra Dale | Patronage relationships are common in many cultures. Western missionaries in these environments are often viewed as pa…
Leading with Beauty
By Grant Klinefelter | Do we know the story of what God is doing today? Often, we know how God has worked in the past and we have hope for what God wi…
Loren Cunningham’s Legacy: Transforming Missions
By Charis Jackson and Lynn Green | To say Loren Cunningham reshaped missions is not an overstatement. It’s a fact. From the vision of waves turning …