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Mobilizing Communities of Color – Event Resources

Mobilizing Communities of Color – Resources

This list of books, articles, and messages was compiled on the recommendation of participants in the 24 Plus event, Mobilizing Communities of Color.

Pursuing Partnership Part 10: A Brother’s Journey

These days, my ministry is focused on helping the church affirm and empower women in the context of our Kingdom work. To be specific, I have spent the last several years traveling the country (and now Zooming like crazy!) training and consulting with churches and organizations about how men and women can partner together more effectively in ministry

Roundup #227

expanding conflict in Ethiopia, Armenia war ends, runaway Covid in Iran, some fascinating long reads.

What to Do When People Don’t Want Jesus

People don’t think they need God, but they know they need this.

Pursuing Partnership Part 9: A Leadership Profile: Melanie Lachcik

Melanie Lachcik took a job as an executive assistant at a Christian nonprofit organization because she wanted to serve with kingdom impact.

Ethnic Minority Support Raising is an Untapped Goldmine for Your MPD!

Support Raising for ethnic minorities usually conjures up words like shame and honor. But no longer are these terms relegated to ethnic minorities.

Finding Your People—How Friendship Contributes to Sanctification

One afternoon, I was coaching a small group as we did a team-building ropes course, and everyone (including me!) was frustrated.

Pursuing Partnership Part 8: Seeing What They See

Diverse church, diverse mission. If the Great Commission is a calling to bring redemption in Christ into the diversity of all nations, people groups, cultures, and languages, how do we hope to be effective from where we live, from where we’ve been formed, and from what we see and don’t see?

Roundup #225

#225 – October 30, 2020 By Justin Long See archives & subscribe here. Know about a trend among the unreached the Roundup isn’t watching? Something surprise…

Missions in a COVID Crisis: Journalism Implications

A looming global economic crisis caused by COVID-19 promises a likely outcome of reduced giving to missional causes. Traditional missions agencies face difficult choices: what is truly essential, what staff and pursuits are integral, and what activities need to be outsourced or discontinued. In the face of an uncertain financial future, agencies may be tempted to out-market one another in a scramble for the pieces of the funding pie that remain.

Innovation Lab Survey

We are planning to partner with The Seeds Innovation Lab, a ministry of Missio Nexus member Pioneers, to deliver a design thinking course to you…

Theology of Risk

Feeling overwhelmed with weighing all the risks of a pandemic? We don’t have to depend on contemporary understanding alone.

Pursuing Partnership Part 7: A Leadership Profile: Shesnarda Rivera

Shesnarda Rivera has learned to walk and talk twice in her life. She’s adjusted to several different versions of her own face.

Roundup #224

#224 – October 23, 2020 By Justin Long See archives & subscribe here. New Events North Africa/Egypt-Sudan (266M) BBC publishes investigation of Sudan’s Islamic schools. Link… “Systematic…

When to Say “No” to Raising Support

When I met Jessie, everything indicated he would be a star in his ministry. The ministry he was aiming for was at the center of his passions. It was in worship and his creativity came alive in the church context. His church body loved his contribution and his family was all for it.

How to Revitalize Global Ministry and Engage the Church with Stories

Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Does Africa Need More Bible Colleges?

As I travel around East Africa and North America for my work, I meet many generous and visionary church members, pastors, and foreign missionaries. Very often I hear people say: “I have a vision to build a theological school to train pastors” or “God is calling us to start a Bible college here.”

Pursuing Partnership Part 6: Limping through Mixed Messages

I (Eva) grew up in a missionary home, with mixed messages regarding women. At home I saw my parent’s version of the “husband head of the house and submissive wife” model, yet my mother took a lead role in the Bible translation. In the mission, women never delivered sermons or became directors, but they shared from the platform, taught linguistics and ran departments.

How to Get the Most Out of Your Coaching Experience

Since 2010 I have trained hundreds of missionaries in partnership development and during this time there has not been a week that I was not in a coaching relationship. Having personally coached over 200 missionaries, here are a few things that I have learned which can help you get the most out of your coaching relationship and partnership development (PD) season.

Church Member Data

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Fear Not: 31 Days to Freedom from Fear

Do you struggle with fear, anxiety, or worry? Many people I talk to do. For years I suffered from anxiety. But not anymore!

Pursuing Partnership Part 5: A Leadership Profile: Jennifer Hoines

Some of Jennifer Hoines’ patients are a several-hour commute away on Guatemalan mountain roads. She sometimes makes the sacrificial journey into remote, isolated Guatemala, but many times the patients’ families take the time off work, hike through the mountains, then pay for a ride in a pickup truck so a child can learn how to walk.

Roundup #223

#223 – October 9, 2020 By Justin Long See archives & subscribe here. Don’t Miss BEYOND NUGGET TRAINING: MULTIPLYING GOSPEL SOWING TOWARD MOVEMENTThursday, OCTOBER 22, 2020…