What's moving in missions
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Building Team Love
By Michel Hendricks | We would all agree that if missionaries loved each other well, many problems would either disappear or be resolved in healthy ways. The real question becomes: How do we learn to love like Jesus loves?
Best Practices for Church-Based Missionary Care
By Lori Rogers and David Wilson | Today, missionaries have unprecedented access to communications tools. And yet, missionaries experience more disconnect from their sending churches than ever before.
Oikos Care: Caring for Our Missionaries by Caring Through Our Missionaries
By Pam Arlund, Mary Ho, and Peggy Spiers | What would member care look like if we, as senders and member care givers, see beyond the surface needs of our missionaries to care more holistically for them?
Growing Your Church’s Capacity for Meaningful Member Care
By Ivan Liew | Building a church’s ability to provide member care to future and existing missionaries involves charting both organizational culture and policy.
Crisis Planning and Response
By Anna E. Hampton | Crises are an unavoidable part of global missions, yet their affects are not. Impact is dependent on our preparation and response.
Beyond ‘Paying and Praying:’ Engaging the Church in Member Care
By Rene Rossouw | Many churches love to boast about their missionaries and their involvement in the nations, while they are actually neglecting the saints serving on their behalf.
Member Care in Nigerian Missions
By Adegbite Olanihun | As the Nigerian Church wakes up to her global missions responsibility, addressing member care issues becomes more critical, and the Church is responding.
The Local Church is the Foundation of Member Care
By Jeremy and Anastasia Thomas with Mary Tindall | Many missionaries long for their home churches to offer more support, embracing a larger role in member care.
Member Care Toolbox Maintenance Strategies: Five Questions
By Brent Lindquist and Larrie Gardner | Regular maintenance should be performed on the ways organizations provide member care and the resources they utilize for member care. Here are five questions to guide your review.
Towards a Whole-Bible Theological Framework for Staff Care and Wellbeing
By Rosie Button | A comprehensive, or systematic theological approach is needed for staff care and wellbeing (otherwise known as member care).
Member Care: Loving Those We’ve Sent
By Heather Pubols | How can organizations and churches adequately care for a globally based workforce? Around 30 men and women from more than 10 nations collaborated to write about a wide range of member care topics.
Pursuing Partnership: New Light on Timeless Texts – Week 12
Biblical Womanhood, Part 2: What is a Woman?
Introducing the National Church Mission Leaders Conference
This new conference is focused specifically on the needs of church missions leadership.
Members onlyWebinar: Simplifying Muslim Outreach
Although many Christians believe that Muslims are extremely difficult to share the gospel with, this is not necessarily true.
Pursuing Partnership: New Light on Timeless Texts – Week 11
Biblical Womanhood, Part 1: What is a Woman?
4 Misguided Expectations From Short-Term Missions
When I committed my life to missions at age 16, I wanted to conquer the world for Christ. I spent most of my summers on short-term mission trips
Members onlyRejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord
Fear is one of the strongest human emotions—and one that often baffles believers, even mission workers.
Pursuing Partnership: New Light on Timeless Texts – Week 10
Shepherd Like a Girl
The 4 Phases in a Disaster
Ted Esler As the war unfolds in Ukraine, ministries are responding. It is not hard for me to imagine what is happening right now since…
In Defense of Second-Class Missionaries
Imagine what it would look like if western churches hired their staff with the same priorities that they choose overseas missionaries to financially support.
Pursuing Partnership: New Light on Timeless Texts – Week 9
Why Don’t We See More Women in the Biblical Text
Baptisms in the Middle East
By Bucky Elliott During a training and preparation visit this month in the Middle East, some of our Area Strategy Team leaders were invited by…
9 Ways to Pray for Ukraine
Lack of knowledge about women in church history is problematic for many reasons. The old phrase “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it” persists.
Ukraine: Prayer Points
A collection of resources from our members on ways to pray for Ukraine and aid workers in this crisis.