Is Medicine Not Enough?
Today, I am concerned for missionaries in service-type ministries who must satisfy supporting churches and justify their financial support by adding o…
Category: Volume 40 – Issue 1
One World or Many? The Impact of Globalisation on Mission
Several years ago I sat in a class taught by Paul Hiebert as he pled for missionaries in a global era to recognize that emerging churches around the w…
Paul’s Missionary Prayer Requests
As a missionary I often struggle with the task of writing prayer letters that creatively communicate the very real needs that my family and I face.
Back to Jerusalem: Called to Complete the Great Commission
The Back to Jerusalem Movement is the vision of the Chinese underground house church leaders to train, send, and support physically and spiritually th…
African Psychology: Established Counseling Techniques and Practices
Africa has always had a built-in system that provides for the health and well-being of her people.
Sharing Jesus in the Buddhist World
A collection of nine essays, coming out of the 4th SEANET forum held in Thailand in March 2002.
The Church in Between Cultures
The “church in between cultures” must be more than just multiethnic or multicultural, as it must transcend cultural and ethnic identities.
Business as Mission
Honest business is rooted in God. Consider God’s character, activities and the objects of God’s actions. God is the Creator. God creates for himse…
What Language to Learn First
The ultimate purpose of cross-cultural missions is to communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ to the people in a culturally appropriate and contextuall…
Testing Narrative Theory
Although narrative preaching and teaching seems highly effective in Africa (as it does in most of the world) some Africans consider it a mark of immat…