Adult Education Principles for Pre-field Missionary Orientation
I would like to suggest that as we work to improve the quality of our training, we must address an additional important aspect: the qualities and qual…
Category: Volume 40 – Issue 2
Enhancing Missionary Vitality: Mental Health Professions Serving
Thirty years ago “mental health” and “missions” in the same sentence may have seemed an uncomfortable fit. Today most believers value what Chr…
Educational Options for Missionary Kids
Cross-cultural workers today are blessed with many options for children’s education. Each choice has its own advantages and challenges, and there is…
Weeding the Heart
“Take every thought to make it obedient to Christ ... Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry ... See to it that ... no bitter root gro…
Could Poverty Be a Blessing?
The idea surfaced while we listened to one of our Zambian students preach in chapel: maybe poverty is one strange way in which this part of the world …
On Kingdom Business
On Kingdom Business is a compilation of papers presented at a Consultation for Holistic Entrepreneurs.
God Can Even Speak through Meetings
Mercy, when you work in Zambia, 2002, you sometimes wonder if there aren’t better ways to spend your time.
Where Are Pioneer Missionaries Needed? The N-Formula
As a missiologist in the European-continental tradition, qualitative research has always come more naturally to me than quantitative. This bias was re…
How to Be a Motivating Teacher
As a missionary teacher in a Bible college in Kenya, one of my greatest concerns is “How can God use me to make a lasting difference in my st…
And So the Story Goes…Web Resources on Storytelling, Myths, and Proverbs
No doubt many EMQ readers learned their missiology the academic, propositional way—from books and lectures. It’s only natural for us to teach the …