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By Evelyn Hibbert
Although cross-cultural missions has many challenges, we are not alone. Its source and power is God. He is the one who is calling the nations to him. Walking in step with God should open a well of joy that carries us day by day. Drawing on that well uncovers our vulnerability. Then, we free God’s…
Read articleBy Premasis Satman
An associate pastor in Hyderabad tells the story of his own COVID-19 lockdown: sealed in his apartment, sick, cut off from his small children, and sinking into fear.
Read articleBy Kirk J. Franklin
Relentless activity can lead mission leaders to equate achievement with faithfulness. Historical influences such as the Protestant work ethic and the missionary industrial complex have helped create this tendency.
Read articleBy Russell Matthews
Most of us enter ministry expecting an adventure. And it is an adventure—just not always the one we imagined. Drawing on Ephesians 2:10, Russell Matthews explores how God often works through the ordinary and unseen moments
Read articleBy Yong Choi
Western missionaries facing social, political, bodily, and spiritual “de-centering” should not deny or overanalyze their loss but meet God in weakness. Yong Choi calls for honest reflection, naming grief, and humbly moving forward. In this way mission advances through vulnerability rather than power.
Read articleBy Joseph W. Handley, Jr. and Janelle Stoops
Mission flourishes not through greater activity but through deeper communion with Christ. Drawing on biblical foundations, cross-cultural experience, and case studies from A3’s leadership development work, this article argues that spiritual practices such as abiding, sabbath, contemplation, lament, and discernment are essential for sustaining missionaries and developing healthy leaders.
Read articleBy Jackson Strider
What is pragmatism? And how does it detract from our spirituality? The author of this article shares some of his own journey with the delicate balance of putting God’s power first in missions, and advice for how to grow into that yourself.
Read articleBy J Wu
Drawing on biblical theology, missiological reflection, and field experience, this article explores the suffering and persecution involved in making disciples among Muslims. Building on the concept of kinsman redeemer theology developed by other scholars
Read articleBy Gene Daniels
This article examines how a particular category of highly successful missionaries have reframed a secular concept—personal agency—to be a part of their Christian worldview. Drawing on a set of 50 interviews with global church planting leaders, the findings reveal that “redeemed personal agency” integrates human responsibility with dependence on God, emphasizing listening to God.
Read articleBy Greg W. Burch
Stressful and traumatic encounters in mission, humanitarian and justice contexts are on the rise. Pilgrimages provide opportunities to take a break from normal routines and roles. They allow time for extended periods of reflection and vulnerability, individually and in community with others.
Read articleBy Tom Gerick
Partnerships in cross-cultural missions are becoming the norm. Yet, they remain challenging. Interviews with national leaders, Christians, and experienced missionaries, confirm the importance of building strong relationships for effective partnerships.
Read articleBy Katherine Choi-Lee
In recent years, church revitalization among Protestant churches in Europe has become an important focus for mission work. Given the post-Christian, secular contexts among some of the most atheist countries in the world, church revitalization in Europe is hard work.
Read articleBy Jim Harries
Missionaries often mediate between donors and recipients who have little shared understanding of each other’s contexts. Donor expectations can sometimes pressure missionaries to act in ways that are culturally inappropriate or ineffective.
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Book reviewA Short Guide to Evangelism and Missions 
Book reviewAsians in Diaspora and Diasporas in Asia
Book reviewGlobal Christianity and Islam: Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs 
Book reviewGlobal Member Care Volume 3: Stories and Strategies for Staying the Course
Book reviewGospel Conversations Reimagined: A Missional Framework for Today 
Book reviewIntegrated Mission: Recovering a Christian Spirituality for Evangelical Integral Transformation
Book reviewPersecution in Missions: A Practical Theology 
Book reviewPrioritizing Missions in the Church 
Book reviewPrioritizing the Church in Missions 
Book reviewReading Hebrews and 1 Peter from Majority World Perspectives 
Book reviewTerritoriality and Hospitality: Christian and Muslim Perspectives 
Book reviewThe New Testament around the World: Exploring Key Texts from Different Contexts Please confirm you want to block this member.
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