EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 13 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
Towards Contextualization of Member Care
By Sampson Dorkunor | Care for the Lord’s workers is a challenge for missionary leaders around the world. Yet worker’s needs are different depending on the cultural context of each missionary.
Building and Leading Culturally Diverse Teams
By Galen Burkholder and Tefera Bekere | Here are four keys to building and leading a strong culturally diverse team to accomplish the Great Commission.
Fostering Sexual Wholeness: Breaking Silence to Defeat Shame
By Dennis Martin | As missionaries, the fear of consequences for sexual brokenness, often labeled as moral failure, makes it unthinkable to ask for help.
Do Your Members Really Want to Work for You?
By Wendi Dykes McGehee | Mission leaders can work to set a tone that creates a working culture that inspires affective commitment to their organization.
How to Make a Successful Missionary
By Curtis McGown | I want to share with you what we have found to help you succeed whether you are the global worker, sending organization, sending church, or partner.
Supporting Today’s Global Workers Toward Missional Resilience
By Geoff and Kristina Whiteman | Global workers are questioning their calling and leaving the field or switching organizations. Now is the time to intentionally foster resilience.
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.
Members onlyCrisis 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.
Members onlyMember 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.
Members onlyMember 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).
Silence, by Shūsako Endō: Reappraising its Relevance in Global Missions Today
By Jordan K. Monson
How to Measure Ministry Impact
By Paul T. Penley
The God of Our Fathers? Questioning Volf’s Muslim-Jewish Parallel
By J. David Willoughby
The Church, the Call to Mission and the Jewish People
By Geoffrey Butler
An Evaluation of Patron-Client Relationships in Australia Indigenous Cultures
By Joshua Mackenzie
Counting the Cost of Indigenous Missionary Needs in South Asia: A Statistical Approach
By Abhijit Nayak
Jesus as the Good Camel Herder: The Somali Nomads as the Final Frontier
By Aweis A. Ali
Orality as Contextualization in South Asia
By Timothy Hatcher