EMQ articles
Evangelical Missions Quarterly, from 1964 to the current issue. Page 8 of 160 · 3,835 in all.
Missions in the Network Society
By Eldon Porter and Joseph Handley | The world is more interconnected than ever before, and the way we do missions is being redefined as a result. Individuals are connecting in collaborative networks which is impacting the way we lead. This, in turn, is changing the role of Western mission sending agencies. What does…
What is Polycentric Mission?
By Allen Yeh | The term polycentric mission has become popular. While the term has a more recent origin, the concept can be traced to the inception of the church. In its earliest days, no one place held authority. The West became a Christian center for a millennia, but now we see a return to polycentric Christianity…
As You Go, Make Disciples Everywhere
By Heather Pubols | Around the world more and more people from Majority World nations are diligently working as missionaries in near and far places. At the same time, economic hardships and unrest have displaced hundreds of millions of people. Unreached and unengaged peoples are now on the doorsteps of local churches…
Loving Our Global Neighbors | EMQ Oct. 2023
By Heather Pubols | Healthcare missionaries around the world, today, follow Jesus’ example. They continue to demonstrate God’s love by relieving the suffering of many.
Asking The Difficult Questions
By Michael Soderling | Global healthcare challenges are complex. Attempts are regularly made to remedy them with technical solutions that do not address root causes. This often perpetuates problems and can cause unintended harm.
Holistic Care for Holistic Health
By Karen Bomilcar | The church has tremendous potential to help communities reach new levels of wholeness. This often-unexplored context for healing provides an incredible opportunity for a body of believers to address issues such as relationships, work, illness, disability, birth, parenting, divorce, substance…
Community Health: A Disciple Making Movement to Foster Peace
By Boureima Diallo and Daniel O’Neill | A fruitful disciple-making movement in Burkina Faso has utilized community health outreaches as part of a holistic strategy to foster peace, make disciples, and plant churches among the Fulani people group. This indigenous and collaborative approach is a strategically…
Being a Witness in a Healthcare Setting
By Latha Mathew and Lindsey Miller | IHS Global developed a training process that equips healthcare workers around the globe to be witnesses for Jesus in their healthcare settings. The course combines curriculum (translated into global heart languages), training (in-person, virtual, or hybrid), and follow-up led by…
Caring for God’s Animals is Caring for God’s People
By Daniel Graham and Lena Wensel | Integrated into a holistic healthcare approach to missions, veterinary medicine provides an opportunity to engage the rural poor in agricultural communities through community development. Building relationships of trust based on care for livestock, Christian veterinarians support…
The Transformational Potential of Missional Healthcare
By Anil Cherian | My wife, Shalini, and I moved from India to East Africa as medical missionaries, in 2014. In partnership with others, we trained more than 100 South Sudanese people to help fill the country’s desperate need for more healthcare workers. We also discipled young men and women to encourage them to…
The Mission Hospital: Four Stages of Development
By Richard Davis, Evelyn Mbugua, Peter Halestrap, Ken Muma, Faith Lelei, and Chege Macharia | Ralph Winter describes four stages of development in mission/church relations: pioneer, parent, partner, and finally, participant. These stages can also be applied to mission hospitals particularly as they relate to the…
Global Health Engagement: A Central Part of Global Mission
By Daniel W. O’Neill | Global health engagement is a key part of church planting efforts and an indispensable partner in meeting global goals for sustainable development. Health and healing can be experienced and, for the church, can remain as an essential pursuit – a sign of the presence of God, and a foretaste and…
Cross-Cultural Healthcare Missions in the 21st Century
By Rebekah Naylor | In the twenty-first century is healthcare missions viable and strategic? Are we mandated to meet the physical needs of people? If so, what do healthcare mission strategies look like today? Going forward, should we expect new evolving avenues for effective healthcare missions in view of political…
Healthcare 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?
The 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…
Reporting 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…
Movement 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…
Enduring 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…
Overcoming 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…
Healthcare 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…
Now 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.
Pain 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.
The 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?
From 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…