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Members only#Iwitness: Ministry among the Makua-Metto People of Mozambique
Just a few days shy of our family’s tenth anniversary of serving here in northern Mozambique, we experienced a home invasion. Armed thieves broke into our home, and my wife, Rachel, and I were held at gunpoint as they stole money and computers.
#Iwitness: Teaching in Chiapas, Mexico
I was standing at the window watching a dog bark across the street. It took a few minutes to realize the dog was on the roof of a house. It took me until the next day to realize the dog lived on the roof! Throughout the city, dogs lived on low, flat, and colorful roofs. I was in Chiapas, Mexico.
Beyond Welcome Home! Ten Things You Need to Know about Reentry
Whether we reenter from a long assignment abroad, a short-term mission trip, a week of vacation, or even a conference, we need to know how to reenter well. Reentry is an often overlooked part of the transition process.
Recovering Prayer and Discernment in Our Agendas and Strategies
What is the role of prayer and spiritual discernment as we look to the future of our organizations? How does engagement with scripture inform not only our mission, but also our plans and strategies to achieve that mission?
SYMPOSIUM: Get Rid of Your Missions Conference!
If your missions program is struggling and young families are sneaking off for brunch on Missions Sunday, here are five suggestions that just might breathe new life into your missions ministry.
Members onlyBest Practices for Missionary Kid Education
Over a recent two-year period, the participants in IMKEC developed an initial statement of best practices for MK education, and in a third year, followed up with specifics on several recommended practices.
Assessing the “Success” of Business as Mission: A Case Study from Central Asia
Drawing on my field research, I wanted to create a definition of goals for BAM activities and begin the process of identifying concepts for a measure of spiritual transformation.
Members onlyUnderstanding Why Two Thousand Languages Still Have No Bible Translation in Progress
At least 1.3 billion people (one-sixth of the world’s population) still does not have a translation of the complete Bible in the language they speak best. After nearly two thousand years since the completion of the Christian canon, why are there still languages on our planet without translations of God’s word ?
#Iwitness: God’s Amazing Work in Our World
This past year, we solicited articles from Christian workers all over the world. We asked, “How is God touching the hearts of people where you work—and how has it impacted your faith?” We called this our #Iwitness campaign and received dozens of responses covering almost every continent of the world. Our goal was to…
Members onlyIn Harm’s Way: Reflections on Missionaries and Risk
Recent world events have raised the sensitivity of many members of sending churches to the risks which missionaries expose themselves and their families. These missionaries’ examples inspire some to take greater risks for God in their own lives.
Members onlyMinistry Education for the Global Church
The case for ministry education for the Global Church is frequently made (Greenman and Green 2014) and millions of dollars annually are poured into Bible schools, colleges, and seminaries in the West and in the Majority World, yet the envisioned effect is not realized. Perhaps it is time to revisit our assumptions…
Worth a Venture
by Gary Corwin PAIN AND SUFFERING are part of the human condition that we all seek to avoid if we can—that is, unless we are…
Sent Forth: African Missionary work in the West
by Harvey C. Kwiyani Orbis Books. 2014. —Reviewed by Ezekiel O. Ajani, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Immigration continues to generate debates in the U.S. The…
Overturning Tables: Freeing Missions from the Christian Industrial Complex
by Scott A. Bessenecker Intervarsity Press, 2014. —Reviewed by Joel Rainey, PhD, strategist for engagement, Mid-Atlantic Baptist Network; professor of ministry, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.…
The Missionary Family: Witness, Concerns, Care
by Dwight P. Baker and Robert J. Priest, eds. William Carey Library. 2014. —Reviewed by Susan Greener, associate professor, Intercultural Studies, Wheaton Graduate School. The…
Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to Radical Mission of the Local Church
by Scot McKnight Brazos Press. 2014. —Reviewed by Jacob Rosenberg, PhD, leader, Adat HaTikvah Messianic Congregation, Deerfield, Illinois. According to Dr. Scot McKnight, the term…
From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story
by Mark Noll Baker Academic. 2014. —Reviewed by Paul Borthwick, senior consultant, Development Associates International; professor, Global Christianity, Gordon College. We owe as much to…
Early Christian Martyr Stories: An Evangelical Introduction with New Translations
by Bryan M. Litfin Baker Academic. 2014. —Reviewed by Daniel Shinjong Baeq, director, Hiebert Global Center, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Bearing in mind differing theological…
Members onlyModes of Mission in New and Established Churches
To help clarify, challenge, and encourage church leaders (and their churches) towards missional effectiveness, it may be helpful to consider three modes of mission as embodied by the Petrine Mission (1 Peter 2:9–12), the Johannine Mission (John 20:21), and the Pauline Mission (the life of Paul).
Members onlyThe W-Spectrum: Worker Paradigms in Muslim Contexts
While significant progress has been made in evangelical missiology on general contextualization, and much debate has swirled around the degree to which a Muslim-background believer can remain an “insider,” less attention has been placed on workers’ practices—and the connection to their view of Islam. Hence, in this…
Members onlyThe C1-C6 Spectrum after Fifteen Years
The C-Spectrum has been used widely in mission circles and literature over the past fifteen years to differentiate various types of Christ-centered communities (biblical ekklesiae ) found in the Muslim world.
Members onlyReaching and Reconciling
There are few concepts as central to the task of missions as reaching and reconciling. The tip of the spear in mission endeavor is to see that unreached peoples are reached with the gospel so that “all the families of the earth” are blessed through Abraham, and those described in Revelation 5 and 7 do indeed…
In the Midst of Change: Shaking Up the EMQ Columns
by A. Scott Moreau and Laurie Nichols Mike O’Rear and I (Scott) started the Missions on the Web column in October 1997. Over those fifteen…
Other Books Received
Other Books Received Anderson, Gerald H. with John Roxborogh, John M. Prior, and Christoffer H. Grundmann. 2012. Witness to World Christianity: The International Association for Mission Studies, 1972-2012. New Haven, Conn.: OMSC Publications.