Sing Africa!
A pastor from the US, just last year, was invited to speak at a weeklong Christian conference in Malawi. The music that preceded his message horrified…
Category: Volume 38 – Issue 3
Art as Missions, Missions as Art
Both in evangelistic outreach and in church development, varying manifestations of the arts have taken center stage in a number of contexts.
Missions and Arts on the Web
From drama in local churches to images of Jesus in paintings and sculptures, from music reflecting God's glory in local idioms to films about Jesus, a…
Missions Has Changed: Is Our Thinking Keeping Up?
Since David Hesselgrave has publicly taken issue with the book written by Jim Engel and myself, I have been invited to write a response.
Using Indigenous Art to Communicate the Christian Message
Visual art can be very useful in supporting oral communication. This is particularly the case when communicating with people who are predominantly ora…
We Sang Ourselves Free: Music Lessons from Estonia
I had expected the physical poverty of eastern Europe to be accompanied by artistic and spiritual poverty. I found just the opposite to be true.
Seven Ingredients of Successful TEE Programs
Seven ingredients that I discovered to be present in every successful TEE program that I researched in southern Africa.
Surviving Furlough Travel While Keeping Your Sanity
As a deputation survivor still on reasonable speaking terms with both supporting churches and family members, let me pass along a few of the survival …
Capacity Building: Growing Healthy Roots in Mission Organization
As much as missions partners know that organizational capacity is key to sustainable ministry, they'll also quickly admit they are ill-prepare…