EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 56 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
Art as Missions, Missions as Art
Both in evangelistic outreach and in church development, varying manifestations of the arts have taken center stage in a number of contexts.
Sing Africa!
A pastor from the US, just last year, was invited to speak at a weeklong Christian conference in Malawi. The music that preceded his message horrified him.
Capacity Building: Growing Healthy Roots in Mission Organization
As much as missions partners know that organizational capacity is key to sustainable ministry, they’ll also quickly admit they are ill-prepared to build it.
Surviving Furlough Travel While Keeping Your Sanity
As a deputation survivor still on reasonable speaking terms with both supporting churches and family members, let me pass along a few of the survival tactics that have helped smooth our miles on the road.
Seven Ingredients of Successful TEE Programs
Seven ingredients that I discovered to be present in every successful TEE program that I researched in southern Africa.
We Sang Ourselves Free: Music Lessons from Estonia
I had expected the physical poverty of eastern Europe to be accompanied by artistic and spiritual poverty. I found just the opposite to be true.
Using Indigenous Art to Communicate the Christian Message
Visual art can be very useful in supporting oral communication. This is particularly the case when communicating with people who are predominantly oral-aural communicators.
Missions Has Changed: Is Our Thinking Keeping Up?
Since David Hesselgrave has publicly taken issue with the book written by Jim Engel and myself, I have been invited to write a response.
Sing Africa!
A pastor from the US, just last year, was invited to speak at a weeklong Christian conference in Malawi. The music that preceded his message horrified him.
Capacity Building: Growing Healthy Roots in Mission Organization
As much as missions partners know that organizational capacity is key to sustainable ministry, they’ll also quickly admit they are ill-prepared to build it.
Surviving Furlough Travel While Keeping Your Sanity
As a deputation survivor still on reasonable speaking terms with both supporting churches and family members, let me pass along a few of the survival tactics that have helped smooth our miles on the road.
Seven Ingredients of Successful TEE Programs
Seven ingredients that I discovered to be present in every successful TEE program that I researched in southern Africa.
We Sang Ourselves Free: Music Lessons from Estonia
I had expected the physical poverty of eastern Europe to be accompanied by artistic and spiritual poverty. I found just the opposite to be true.
Using Indigenous Art to Communicate the Christian Message
Visual art can be very useful in supporting oral communication. This is particularly the case when communicating with people who are predominantly oral-aural communicators.
Missions Has Changed: Is Our Thinking Keeping Up?
Since David Hesselgrave has publicly taken issue with the book written by Jim Engel and myself, I have been invited to write a response.
Missions and Arts on the Web
From drama in local churches to images of Jesus in paintings and sculptures, from music reflecting God’s glory in local idioms to films about Jesus, artistic expression spans a spectrum of ideas, materials, media and imagery that helps Christians of all cultures think more clearly about Christ.
Art as Missions, Missions as Art
Both in evangelistic outreach and in church development, varying manifestations of the arts have taken center stage in a number of contexts.
It’s Your History: Guidelines for Establishing Your Mission Archives
Literally hundreds are nondenominational missions and the vast majority of them have no systematic method of compiling and preserving their story.
Teaching in the Trenches of Central Europe
In the summer of 1998 one of my brightest Czech students, Petra, wrote my family from England about an important milestone in her spiritual odyssey.
Toward Interdependent Ministry Partnerships: Fueling Ministry without Fostering Dependency
Partnership, Self-reliance, Accountability, Dependency. These are buzzwords that came to dominate table talk about missions in the last decade of the previous millennium. The changing face of missions has demanded them.
Kingdom Business: A New Frontier in Missions
Productive economic activity is a means to enhance and support Christian ministry.
Hometown Ministry as Pre-Field Preparation
In today’s America, missionary appointees have great opportunities for significant cross-cultural ministry experience before they go overseas.
The Lion of Mathematics: Reflections on Operation World by Patrick Johnstone
Operation World by Patrick Johnstone is essential even for numerically-challenged people like me.
Fedup.com
Much of the “advanced technology” is robbing the missionary of his or her time and resources to do what they went overseas to accomplish.