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Innovation and the Field Missionary

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Kurtis Amundson
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By Ted Esler

Retention and Onboarding: Are We Ready to Ask the Hard Questions?

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Mission Motives Infographic

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Missio Nexus members can click on the infographic to access the full report.    

Mission Motives Full Report

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Michael VanHuis
January 10, 2019

Full Research Report In 2016, a professor of ethnomusicology from the University of Colorado, Dr. Benjamin Teitelbaum, sought to discover what motives lie behind Christians who make a decision to serve in foreign lands as missionaries.   At the outset of the project, he theorized that many go overseas as a means to escape the . . . read more

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