Reporting Challenges for Movements in a World of Misinformation and Persecution
By Stan Parks | Globally, 1,965 church planting movements (CPMs) are being reported, with approximately 90% of these among current or former unreached…
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Movement Catalysts’ Self-Awareness – A Factor in Fruitfulness
By Gene Daniels and Emanuel Prinz | Healthy self-awareness is a key quality of effective pioneer missionaries such as movement catalysts because cultu…
Enduring Redemptive Communities
By Ronald and Carolyn Klaus | Over time, the church has repeatedly devolved into structures more geared to attracting and inspiring people than to tra…
The Global Impact of George Verwer
By David Greenlee and Greg Kernaghan | George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilisation, passed away on April 14, 2023. His impact in global missions …
Was Paul a ‘Missionary’?
By Phil King | Michael Stroope’s book, Transcending Mission, offers a semantic challenge on the use of the words mission, missionary and missional. …
Bible Studies Don’t Fix Religious Persecution
By Helene Fisher and Elizabeth Lane Miller | Walking away from current beliefs into new ones is never neutral. In places where Christian faith is unwe…
Ambiguous Loss in Missionary Life
By Nancy R. Mauger | Missionaries living away from their passport countries often experience a phenomenon known as ambiguous loss. This term, which de…
The Role of Pastoral Visits in Missionary Member Care
By Ed Grudier | While both agencies and churches can engage in member care with their missionaries, churches can focus more on personal care. Field vi…
Translating for Transformation: The Missional Impulse of Translation
By Paul K. Kimbi | Missions includes church planting, evangelism, reconciliation, and much more. Bible translation programs aim to do all of these thi…
(Mis)Understanding the Need
By David Chakranarayan | Two-thirds of Christians in the US say they have not heard of the Great Commission. Even fewer could roughly estimate the num…