Lay Leaders: Trained and Dynamic, or Untrained and Dangerous?
It’s Sunday morning in Kagimba, a densely populated village in Kenya near Lake Victoria. Ben Koyo, a church elder, takes his bicycle to Kagim…
Category: Volume 32 – Issue 1
The Missing Ingredient in Leadership Training
Dyanmic reflection will not happen unless we plan for it.
Educating Youth in South America
Descriptions of the forces shaping the educational ministry models national churches were using, problems encountered, and suggested strategies for st…
Keep the Change
History and personal experience remind us powerfully that change is inevitable. Futurists have been telling us for years that change is accelerating a…
The Nature and Character of God’s Mission
When Jeff Anderson arrived in Manila with Action International Ministries in 1985, his goal was simple: to be a “street worker.” After language sc…
Sunday School Curriculum: Made in Boliva
It was the fourth day of our curriculum workshop in Bolivia. Emotions ran high as writers gave the openings for their first lesson. How different this…
The Problem with Success
Our Protestant mission enterprise is at a crossroad. Not because it has failed, but largely because it has succeeded.
Editorial: Missiology Meet Jesus
For all of its wonderful wisdom about the world and about ourselves, the Bible is woefully short on methods.