EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 105 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
Missionaries Should Not Plant Churches
Our goal must be to be facilitators of new churches instead of leaders of them.
What’s Holding up World Evangelization?: The Mission Agencies
Something about the approaching arrival of the 21st century has sparked a plethora of new world evangelization initiatives. Actually, according to researcher David Barrett, America’s 200th birthday in 1976 was the catalyst for the launching of not less than 11 new plans. Since then, another 183 have been announced.
The Risks of Sending Our Dollars Only
Sending dollars to substitute missionaries creates the dangerous misconception that missions equals money alone.
Non-Western Missionaries: Our Newest Challenge
About one-fourth of cross cultural mission work is being done by people from non-Western nations.
Global Report: Major Trends in the World and the Church
Reports from around the world.
Reaching Minorities Takes Cultural Acceptance
Strategically, we have to admit that there is a serious roadblock to world evangelization when the existing church cannot minister effectively to minorities.
How to Develop Authors among Semi-literates
I use “semi-literate” to mean anyone who can’t write in the language he can read and speak. Often that’s his second language. These people have fabulous treasures of stories, but they can’t write marketable manuscripts.
Messages from Symbols That We Often Miss
Symbolic anthropology has important implications for missionaries who need to understand local culture.
Taking School-age Children to a New Culture
Taking school-age children to a new culture is risky yet missionary parents who look ahead can reduce the trauma.
Missionaries Should Not Plant Churches
Our goal must be to be facilitators of new churches instead of leaders of them.
What’s Holding up World Evangelization?: The Mission Agencies
Something about the approaching arrival of the 21st century has sparked a plethora of new world evangelization initiatives. Actually, according to researcher David Barrett, America’s 200th birthday in 1976 was the catalyst for the launching of not less than 11 new plans. Since then, another 183 have been announced.
The Risks of Sending Our Dollars Only
Sending dollars to substitute missionaries creates the dangerous misconception that missions equals money alone.
Non-Western Missionaries: Our Newest Challenge
About one-fourth of cross cultural mission work is being done by people from non-Western nations.
Global Report: Major Trends in the World and the Church
Reports from around the world.
How Faith Mission Pioneers Understood Women’s Roles
Why do many evangelical groups who used women as pastors and preachers then now prohibit or discourage such ministry?
40 Years in the Andes: An Interview with Homer Firestone
Homer Firestone shares his unique insights into the task of evangelism in indigenous cultures.
The Missionary’s Ministry Prayer
We might as well not have church services on Ecuadorian holidays,” complained my friend, “because only gringos were there today.”
Anglo-American Missionaries in Europe Speak Up
After World War II, North American missionaries discovered a new mission field—Western Europe.
Europe Needs All Kinds of Church Planters
When it comes to planting churches in Europe, what should a missionary do? There are at least four possibilities.
Home Schooling in the Missions Context
Few mission agencies rigidly define how the children of their missionaries are to be educated. This doesn’t mean that they don’t care about it. On the contrary, they have a growing sensitivity to the complex issues surrounding the education of MKs (missionary kids) on the field.
What’s Holding up World Evangelization?: The Church Itself
Strange is it may seem, the church is holding up world evangelization.
Missionary Medicine Must Face the Future Now
The author discusses primary health care.
Global Report: Major Trends in the World and the Church
Reports from around the world.
How Faith Mission Pioneers Understood Women’s Roles
Why do many evangelical groups who used women as pastors and preachers then now prohibit or discourage such ministry?