EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 8 of 160 · 3,822 in all.
Members onlyHealthcare Missions: Past, Present, and Future
By Neil Thompson | Healthcare missions has a long history in Christianity, which continues to grow and develop. But how did it begin, how has it changed, and where is it going?
Members onlyThe Open Door Amongst Closed Doors
By Joshua Bogunjoko | Medical missions, especially among least reached communities, seems difficult and the financial proposition absurd. Yet all people need healthcare. Healthcare missions is an open door to ministry which Jesus himself demonstrated as he met the physical and spiritual needs of people he ministered…
Members onlyReporting Challenges for Movements in a World of Misinformation and Persecution
By Stan Parks | Globally, 1,965 church planting movements (CPMs) are being reported, with approximately 90% of these among current or former unreached people groups. These reports have been compiled by the 24:14 Coalition. Our primary goal has been to find out where the unreached are being reached so we can identify…
Members onlyMovement Catalysts’ Self-Awareness – A Factor in Fruitfulness
By Gene Daniels and Emanuel Prinz | Healthy self-awareness is a key quality of effective pioneer missionaries such as movement catalysts because cultural awareness relies heavily on healthy self-awareness. Research shows that effective movement catalysts demonstrate mature self-awareness concerning their personal…
Members onlyEnduring Redemptive Communities
By Ronald and Carolyn Klaus | Over time, the church has repeatedly devolved into structures more geared to attracting and inspiring people than to transforming and mobilizing them. Unless we take deliberate steps to prevent it, many of the movements toward God among unreached people groups that we now celebrate could…
Members onlyOvercoming Fertility Challenges and Opening Opportunities for the Gospel
By Sherry Liu | One of six families struggles to conceive, a journey that can be challenging and filled with uncertainties. However, a revolutionary fertility app aims to alleviate the frustrations and guesswork associated with getting pregnant. By providing accurate ovulation predictions and cycle tracking, it has…
Members onlyHealthcare Missionary Burnout
By Jim Ritchie | The role and experience of healthcare missionaries (HCMs) is different from other missionaries. HCMs tend to encounter death, suffering, and moral crises many times a day. Though they have experienced death and similar crises during their training or practice in their home countries (particularly if…
Members onlyNow What? Utilizing Medical Missionaries From Africa
By Matthew Loftus and Bruce Dahlman | After much time and a great deal of investment, those of us who have been working in medical education missions are starting to see the fruits of our labor as African doctors graduate from their residency programs ready to go to whatever mission field to which God has called them.
Members onlyPain of a Different Sort
By Jean Johnson | Pairing foreign healthcare clinics with indigenous gospel and disciple-making efforts may have unintended consequences. They may heal pain on one front but cause it on another.
Members onlyThe Software Paradigm All Ministries Should Adopt
By Jon Here | The free software and open source movements in the technology industries have been so successful that even large corporations participate in them. What can we learn from this methodology that we can apply to ministry resources right now?
Members onlyFrom Boats to Airplanes to Laptops
By David Daniel | Today’s technology, powered by our collective pandemic experience using it, is accelerating online connections and collaboration. This shift is the backstory for a new platform that is matching Great Commission Organizations (GCOs) with Kingdom Consultants (KCs). These fruitful connections are…
Members onlyThe Global Impact of George Verwer
By David Greenlee and Greg Kernaghan | George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilisation, passed away on April 14, 2023. His impact in global missions reverberated far beyond the boundaries of OM. God used him to help shape its multicultural and multinational the future.
Members onlyWas Paul a ‘Missionary’?
By Phil King | Michael Stroope’s book, Transcending Mission, offers a semantic challenge on the use of the words mission, missionary and missional. He believes we distort history when we use these words to describe biblical people and activities. Using a cognitive linguistic lens, we can evaluate his claims .
Members onlyBible Studies Don’t Fix Religious Persecution
By Helene Fisher and Elizabeth Lane Miller | Walking away from current beliefs into new ones is never neutral. In places where Christian faith is unwelcomed or illegal, following Jesus has implications for everything. In order to offer better support and help strengthen the church, missionaries walking with these…
Members onlyMobilizing Techies for Mission
By Dorinda Beeley | Over the last 22 years, God has led me on a journey from missions tech skeptic to missions tech recruiter. He has given our ministry the opportunity to share about missions tech needs with thousands of Christian computer science students over the last decade – and then give them opportunities to…
Members onlyMatching Missionaries and Partners: A Modern Approach
By Kevin Horan | When someone becomes a missionary with a raise-your-own-support type of agency, they are taught how to make phone calls and talk to people to create their ministry team. What if there was a website/app that could help missionaries and potential partners find one another?
Members onlyAI Hallucinations, Chatbots, and the Truth of Holy Scripture
By Jeremy Hodes | While limitations and potential nefarious uses need to be considered, AI also offers tremendous opportunities in missions that can help the gospel to spread further and faster than ever.
Members onlyMeeting God in the Metaverse
By Jeff Reed | God has been preparing the digital and the metaverse mission fields, and in these digital environments we can reach the world. A handful of innovative church planters with little to no support are leading what can at the very least be called an innovative experiment.
Members onlyCan Digital Make Us Human Again?
By Justin Sooter | How can Christians live in a world where we are glued to screens and where verbal communication seems to be going out of style? How do we do evangelism and engage with our neighbors and friends so that they can hear about Jesus when we barely even talk to each other? Digital technology, the very…
Members onlyLet the Nations Hear
By D. B. Brown | Traditional and embodied missions methods are not always possible among the least reached communities. Digital distribution of Scriptural content, when driven by sound missiology, can bridge this gap. Missionary technologists have a unique opportunity to help missionaries use this powerful and…
Members onlyFunnels and Loops: How Mass Communication is Accelerating Movements
By Josiah Palusky | Innovative strategies are linking new and existing methods of evangelism and discipleship in ways not previously explored. In many cases, technology is playing a key role.
Members onlyGlobal Missions from the Comfort of Your Living Room
By Dorrie Manu | The Mentor Ministry software platform enables people serving as mentors to connect online with mentees looking for someone to join a spiritual journey with them. Along the way mentors are equipped to help their mentees take steps towards Jesus.
Members onlyDigital Missions Launchpad
By Ace Pendon | The Cru Digital Strategies team has been building digital training programs to equip the body of Christ for digital missions. Through their programs, they are training cohorts of digital missionaries to fill missional gaps helping the gospel to spread further and faster.
Members onlyTechnology is Multiplying Prayer for ALL Nations
By Elizabeth Adleta, Susmitha Kothari, Ray Peng, Pastor X*, Robby Butler | An unprecedented number of people across the world are participating in coordinated 24/7/365 prayer for the fulfillment of God’s promise to bless all ethne. Advances in technology are fueling this prayer and linking believers together in…