Reflections of a Maturing MK: Grappling with Tough Latin Realities
In the first of this two-part series (April, 1991), I described what I call the "double bubble syndrome" that missionary kids grow up in. The first bu…
Category: Volume 27 – Issue 3
What Hath Our Western Money and Our Western Gospel Wrought?
Increasing financial paternalism and the accompanying westernization of the gospel are the two most critical issues facing us in world missions today.…
Another Training Seminar? Ugh!
Adult learning research shows that too often highly trained, highly motivated people, like the missionaries and church leaders we serve, are not highl…
Phasing out Your Work: Make it a Plan, Not a Crisis
Finding a balance between staying too long and leaving too early.
If Paul Got Organized, So Can You
After visiting missionaries on a number of fields over the past few years, I've come away dismayed because far too many of them have only a vague idea…
Chile’s Pentecostals Face Problems Due to Isolation
According to the Jesuit-sponsored Bellarmino Center and the Chilean Department of Sociological Research, Protestantism has exploded in Chile. In 1970,…
From Dependency to Fulfillment
The Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA, Kenya), which grew out of the pioneering missionary zeal of the Church of Scotland in 1891, will be cele…
Your Church-Planting Team Can Be Booby-Trapped
Like the thousands of Iraqi landmines strewn across the desert, potential booby traps can blow up in the faces of church-planting teams that take to t…
House Church Movement Catches on among Sri Lanka’s Urban and Rural Poor
Joachim Hettiarachi, principal of the Ibbagamuwa high school, arrived home one afternoon to find a mother and her teenage daughter waiting for him. Th…
What Kind of Encounters Do We Need in Our Christian Witness?
We're hearing more about power encounter these days among non-charismatics. We are more open and less afraid of spiritual power than we used to be.