What's moving in missions
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Online Member Care Resources
An update of missionary care resources online.
Landing on Your Feet: Assisting International Workers when They Return Home
Mission agencies have an ethical and spiritual responsibility to help workers who are returning to “civilian life” back in the U.S. land on their feet.
Quality Standards for Agencies
Missionary agencies are vehicles for the establishment of a missionary vision within the Church and the facilitation of that vision to the world. As such, agencies must manifest the commitment to high quality in their work.
Christian Witness in Muslim Settings
Hyatt researched and interviewed many practitioners and missiologists to formulate “Questions and Biblical Guidelines” for ministering to Muslims.
Doing One Thing Well: Stepping through the Short-term Mission Experience
The author suggests that a short-term mission trip focus on one thing: impacting the life of the participant in meaningful and measurable ways.
Cutting the Purse Strings: How to Avoid and Overcome Paternalism
The author offers a list of guidelines missionaries should and should not do when supporting any type of mission effort.
Rereading Acts 6:1-7: Lessons for Multicultural Mission Organizations
The conflict in Acts 6:1-7 may have multiple implications for multi-cultural mission organizations in the twenty-first century.
Muslim-friendly Christian Worship
If followers of Christ want Muslims to feel comfortable in Christian worship services, they need to consider at least seven issues.
How Cultures Work: A Roadmap for Intercultural Understanding in the Workplace
The author asks what effective and efficient multinational partnership looks like and how multinational teams can function practically.
Daniel as a Model for Godly Living in Creative Access Countries
Four stories from the Book of Daniel serve as examples to those serving God in creative access countries.
Toward a Cross-cultural Identity of Forgiveness
The author looks at individualistic and collectivistic worldviews and explains how the Church can move toward a cross-cultural identity of forgiveness in respective cultures.
Fixing the Problem of Face
Missionaries and national leaders can make face a subject of theological investigation, working together to develop a biblically-specific, biblically-informed understanding of face and face practices.
Language and Labels
Can the Church be a thought-leader in shaping language that ascribes and affirms human dignity by recognizing the God-given identity of all humanity?
The Audacity of Hype…and Humility
With all due respect to politicians and members of the mission community, isn’t exaggeration and truth-shading something to be avoided?
Four Ways to Mentor Church Planters
Jones offers four ways in which church planters need mentoring—and how they correspond to four eras in a church planter’s life.
Why Church Matters: Worship, Ministry, and Mission in Practice
Jonathan R. Wilson believes that the “practicing church” declares God’s redemptive work and enhances the church’s witness through the empowerment of the Spirit.
Music in the Life of the African Church
We European and American missionaries brought the Word to Africa, and we relegated music to its pagan past. This book, very positive in tone, provides a sobering look at what we missed.
The Missional Church in Context: Helping Congregations Develop Contextual Ministry
The book is the first in a new series from Eerdmans entitled the “Missional Church series,” and is comprised of essays that come from a conference on the missional church hosted by Luther Seminary in December 2005.
The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886-1926
Parker traces the history of the SVM by focusing on a variety of themes that shaped the movement’s birth and development.
Imagined Hindusim: British Protestant Missionary Constructions of Hinduism, 1793-1900
Many today may be startled to learn that “Hinduism” is a relatively recent term that did not come into vogue until the late eighteenth century.
The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Missions
Historians have long discussed the theological and cultural influence of the eighteenth-century evangelical awakenings on Great Britain and her North American colonies.
Good and Faithful—New Zealand Missionaries and Their Experience of Attrition
Why do missionaries come home prematurely and what can be done about it? Hudson Deane has asked these questions to ninety-two evangelical missionaries from nineteen agencies who were returning to New Zealand.
Faith Comes By Hearing: A Response to Inclusivism
Faith Comes by Hearing is a contribution to an evangelical theology of the unevangelized.
Encountering Missionary Life and Work: Preparing for Intercultural Ministry
A much-needed textbook to prepare missionaries.