What's moving in missions
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Successful Partnership: A Case Study
A tremendously effective partnership between a group of missionaries to North Africans in France and a local French church led to the formation of a ministry model for the future placement of teams in France.
Challenges and Opportunities for Mental Health Providers
The need for specialized mental health services within missions is growing. It can be responded to best by openly acknowledging the need and actively seeking out specialists who can carry out the work.
The Flight of the Swans: Discerning Hidden Values in Global Cultures
Global workers must discern, learn, and affirm values in a Christ-like way.
Kingdom Business Revisited: The Case of Northern Colombia
Two years after it began, the author explains why ADIN (Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral) in Colombia is being used as a model for creating other kingdom business mission projects.
Innovation in Mission: Women Workers in the Harvest Force
Empowering women harvest force workers to fulfill God’s calling in their lives can bear tremendous fruit for the gospel.
Culture Shock! Successfully Navigating the Transition Phase of Ministry
The author provides a biblical antidote to the suggestion that a rollercoaster of emotions is part of a normal behavior curve that serves to validate the newcomer’s right to a season of despondency.
Church-Minded Missions: Taking the Local Church Seriously
The problem comes when a “missions-minded” church is not counterbalanced with the corresponding recognition that mission agencies need to recognize the God-ordained place of the local church.
Understanding the Global South(s)
The differences between the various regions of the Global South are real and significant in terms of their defining characteristics.
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor and Yourself
by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert Moody Publishers, 820 N. LaSalle Blvd., Chicago, IL 60610, 208 pages, 2009, $14.99. —Reviewed by Laurie Fortunak Nichols, editorial…
A Muslim-Christian Dialogue on Salvation: The Role of Works
One principle of effective witness with Muslims is listening and allowing them to identify the issues which they find important in the discussion. It is then up to us to formulate our biblical understanding for them in those areas.
Power and Identity in the Global Church: Six Contemporary Cases
This book addresses the manner in which contextualization is a social and cultural response to the Christian faith that supports both personal and cultural identities.
The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith
Noll endeavors to place the American evangelical experience within the broader story of global Christianity.
Landmark Essays in Mission and World Christianity
This collection includes an array of articles, starting with a classic reflection on biblical models of mission by David Bosch and concluding with two articles on global trends in Christianity by Peter C. Phan and J. Samuel Escobar.
The Forgotten Ways Handbook: A Practical Guide for Developing Missional Churches
For those of you needing guidance on implementing the theoretical aspects of Alan Hirsch’s popular 2007 publication, The Forgotten Ways, this follow-up handbook is for you.
Edinburgh 2010: Mission Then and Now
Twelve hundred delegates from 170 mission agencies and denominations came together to study the preparatory reports of eight commissions. Edinburgh 2010: Mission Then and Now is structured around the reports of the eight commissions:
Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue: Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas
Mary Shepard Wong and Suresh Canagarajah have masterfully assembled a collection of thirty-one essays by both secular (“critical”) and Christian writers.
Buddhism: A Christian Exploration and Appraisal
One main purpose of the text is “not to comprehensively argue for the truth of Christian claims…but to clarify the differences” (p. 176) between Christianity and Buddhism.
African Proverbs Reveal Christianity in Culture
Jay Moon’s wonderful book deserves a place in the collection of anyone who has an interest in contextualization or effective ministry in oral settings.
Academic Societies and Academic Sites Supporting Mission Research
Most of the sites referenced in this article are focused on evangelical and Protestant Christian mission, and we’ve included a few Roman Catholic sites of particular value for evangelicals.
Enhancing Your Internal Coaching Capacity
Sitting on the plane after the coach training class she’d just attended, Kris was excited about what she had learned and was looking forward to the upcoming coaching sessions.
Ethical Guidelines for Church Planters
The following eleven guidelines allow missionaries to maintain the necessary philosophical and methodological freedom in which to fulfill their callings, while simultaneously establishing healthy biblical and missiological parameters in light of the kingdom ethic.
Preventing Discouragement and Keeping Church Planters Productive on the Field
A study of church planters reveals that they are more likely to be motivated to continue on the field if certain criteria are in place. The author offers help for mission agencies and team leaders looking to help their church planters succeed in their tasks.
From Yesterday to Today: Understanding Ministry in Russia
Being effective in ministry in cultures such as Russia, where Russian Orthodoxy and suspicion of Americans are commonplace, includes a return to the simplicity of Bible study and scripture reading.
Evaluating “A Common Word”: The Problem of “Points of Contact”
Why “points of contact” between Christianity and Islam are mythical—and why Christians must stay true to the task of missions that lies before us.