A Ten-Point Plan for Producing Better Indigenous Churches
We hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of indigenous churches, churches that are truly “home-grown” and reflect the values and cult…
Category: Volume 42 – Issue 2
LeadershipNext: Changing Leaders in a Changing Culture
For several years now, I’ve relied on Thomas Friedman’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree to help me understand some of the overall dimensions a…
Leadership on the Move: From One Culture to the Next
Our generation is seeing fewer and fewer missionaries spend their entire missionary career in one place.
Scattered: The Filipino Global Presence
None other than Her Excellency, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, president of the Philippines, introduces this extensive report on the amazing Filipino diaspo…
Integrating Technology in Leadership Training
When I began my missionary career in the Philippines in 1986, making a long-distance telephone call was a major project. Very few private homes had te…
Searching for the Indigenous Church: A Missionary Pilgrimage
Expatriate workers can, sometimes unknowingly, dominate the people they work among. Rather, they should listen to them.
Keeping Nationalization in Perspective
In one week I heard three references to the importance of nationalization in mission. During a meeting, one of our missionary staff said, “If our so…
Through God’s Eyes: A Bible Study of God’s Motivations for Missions
How many people from your church have gone out of the country on a short-term mission trip in the last five years? Make a quick estimate. Now, how man…
The German Church Planting Movement: Have We Missed the Boat?
With eighty-two million inhabitants, Germany continues to be a desperate mission field in need of thousands of new churches. The good news is that ove…
Through the Eyes of Another: Intercultural Reading of the Bible
This hefty book is the product of a three-year study of John 4:1-42 by 120 groups from all parts of the world.