The Message of Short-term Missions
What is the message of short-term missions for today? And what does it tell us about the future of the evangelical missions enterprise from North Amer…
Category: Volume 36 – Issue 4
Short-term Missions: Biblical Considerations
Tremendous amounts of financial and human resources have gone into short-term missions in the last two decades. Is the effort, time, and money worth i…
Walk-Thru the Bible: A Cross-cultural Tool?
In 1963, Ralph G. Braun began a home Bible study. But his study was a bit different. He used a chronological approach, hand signs, and a map laid out …
Teaching, Technology and Transformation
Distance education is the most powerful dynamic affecting training institutions today.
Missions on the Web: Surfing to Asia
Asia is awakening to the Web; indeed, Asians are global leaders in some aspects of Internet technology.
Thriving on Diversity
After living in the West Indies for 15 years, I could, perhaps, be forgiven for forgetting my alien ethnicity. I was no longer burdened by the daily c…
First, Do No Harm
Each year tens of thousands of women and men from North America participate in short-term mission trips sponsored by local churches, mission organizat…
Short-term Mission Trips Are Great, IF…
Are short-term missions trips the panacea for missions, or are they part of the larger problem of missions? Actually, the truth is somewhere in the mi…