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Creative Teams – Making Art Within the Organization
By Ted Esler, PhD Sometimes you need to accomplish a job and you can’t do it with the usual list of suspects. These are tasks…
Prayer Softens Hearts – More Prayer Breaks Them!
by Ruth P. Harbour Eighty-five year old A-Pi has aged the four years we have been her neighbors in rural Taiwan. She’s looking rather gaunt…
Christmas in Ukraine
The Rist family was exhausted when Tee and two other Vietnamese young ladies rang their doorbell. The government of Vietnam had sent Tee to Kyiv…
New Member: Team Expansion
Missio Nexus welcomes a new member: Team Expansion. Reflecting on Envision ’96: 20 Years and Counting By Doug Lucas In the fall of 1995, I…
New Birth Brings New Opportunity
By a SEND worker ministering to refugees in the United States It all began with a birth. No, this isn’t another retelling of the Christmas…
How to Think About Missiology
by Ted Esler As I read for my PhD I noticed that there are categories of missiology. Identifying these categories might help to understand an…
Sergey’s Transformation in Zaporozhye, Ukraine
Mission Eurasia trains and equips young Next Generation Christian leaders in the countries of Eurasia to transform their nations for Christ. Our School Without Walls…
New Member: ChinaSource
Missio Nexus welcomes a new member: ChinaSource. China’s Church Through Western Eyes By Brent Fulton Scanning the headlines on any given day, one cannot but…
Uber Mission
by Ted Esler I have been reading the book, The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Bases Capitalism, for the Leader’s…
Last One to Find Out
by Ted Esler Do you ever feel like you are the “last one to find out” about something? If you are a leader you probably…
Common Errors About Christ’s Second Coming
Posted by Marvin Newell. What is your opinion about the second coming of Christ? How does it inform your missiology? More specifically, how does it…
MLC 2015 Plenary: Legacy with Nancy Ortberg
Nancy is a founding partner of Teamworx, a business and leadership consulting firm which provides fast-passed, practical and compelling sessions to leaders and their teams. Teamworx…
MLC 2015 Plenary: Diversity with Michael Oh
Dr. Michael Oh has served since March 2013 as Executive Director and CEO of the Lausanne Movement. He also serves as Board Chairman of CBI…
Translation and Scripture Engagement among Oral Communicators
By Dr. Margaret B. Doll, Associate International Media Services Coordinator, SIL International “Translation organizations simply do not have enough people or money to translate the…
The Value of Cross-Cultural Education for All
By Dr. Jim Raymo, Director of BGS (Bethany Global University Graduate Studies) A few years ago while attending a conference in South Korea, I was…
Why the Haystack Prayer Meeting Matters Today
posted by Marv Newell Most of us have heard and even probably have used the idiom, “It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack,”…
Unreached Peoples
Missio Nexus announces the July/August 2016 Global Issues Update: “The Global Status of Unreached Peoples” with Dan Scribner of Joshua Project Director. Complex global…
A “Sign” in Rwanda
By Debbie Breuer, Scriptures in Use KIGALI RWANDA—It was midmorning after three days of Bridges 1 training and the group was preparing to fly back to…
Rethink the Native Missionary
When the largest and most prominent native missionary organization became embroiled in a financial scandal, church leaders began asking me, “What happened? What went wrong?…
New Member: Steiger International
No Longer Music is a ministry of a worldwide mission organization called Steiger International, which is called to reach and disciple the Global Youth Culture for Jesus. Steiger trains missionaries to share the message of Jesus in the language of the Global Youth Culture and establishes long-term presence in urban centers through ongoing outreach, discipleship, and local church partnership.
A Powerful Prayer in Jesus’ Name
By A, in Southeast Asia, a worker with SEND International. As we settled in at the town gymnasium to celebrate sixth-grade graduation, we expected to…
A Man Walked into a Bar—and Came to Christ
By Leadership Resources, a Missio Nexus member. A Man Walks into a Bar … and Comes to Christ? Years ago, a Ugandan man named George…
Pillars of Trust
By C in Southeast Asia, a worker with SEND International. Muslims are people who care earnestly about loving God. Despite this commonality, Muslims and Christians…
Three Qualities of God’s Creativity
by Ted Esler I was asked to give a devotional on creativity to one of our member organizations. It was a fun (and creative) task.…