Reflections on the Loss of Dale
Paul and Dale Stock were born and grew up in Pakistan. Their parents, Fred and Margie Stock, have been serving in Pakistan for nearly fifty years.
Category: Volume 42 – Issue 1
Grace and Greed in a People Movement to Christ in Nepal
The most astonishing story to come out of the church in Nepal since its inception fifty years ago is the movement to Christ of a large number of peopl…
Singing the Lord’s Song in a Global World: The Dynamics of Doing Critical Contextualization through
Whether in a post-modern setting, a non-Western urban context or among an unreached people group, music serves as a focal point within Christian churc…
What Makes Mission Christian?
Although Christian mission may seem easily definable, there is a growing divide among evangelicals today regarding the fundamental meaning, role and p…
Middle Mission
Consider the following idea from a young person interested in overseas missions: “Maybe there would be merit in removing the categorical labels of â…
What I Have Learned from Middle Eastern Christianity
Over the last twenty years one of the great privileges of my life has been the many opportunities I have had to meet Arab Christians in Lebanon, Jorda…
Missions and Web Outreach
“Online outreach is an innovative response to today's high-tech world. It is possible to evangelize one billion people through this medium."
…
The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Few topics have more coverage on the Web than HIV/AIDS. A Google search results in nearly ninety million hits. Having been a major world concern for y…
A Reader’s Guide to Transforming Mission
Back in the early 1990s when I read through David Bosch’s
Transforming Mission—not at one sitting, the book is too large for that—my overwhelmi…
Letters to the Editor
Are We Really about Church Planting? Several quotes caught my attention in Larry Sharp’s article “Are We Really about Church Planting?&…