Someone once said, “Influence like water flows downhill.” The truth of this statement has tremendous implications to the work of modern missions across Africa...
How NOT To Drop A Missionary's Support
Missions Partnerships from a Field Worker's Perspective
Missions Partnerships from the Home Church Perspective
Mission leaders today talk about the desire among churches for more direct, personal partnership with international gospel workers. On the whole, I think such desires are very good. However, like anything in a fallen world, these partnerships can be done well or done poorly, resulting in fruit or frustration, respectively... I want to offer six principles for partnering with overseas workers for the purpose of global evangelism.
David Livingstone's Perspective Of Missions
David Livingstone is one of my favorite missionaries. Clearly he had an eternal perspective. On June 18, 1853 Livingstone wrote, "Our work and its fruits are cumulative. We work towards another state of things. Future missionaries will be rewarded by conversions for every sermon. We are their pioneers and helpers. Let them not forget the watchmen of the night, we how worked when all was gloom and no evidence of success in the way of conversion cheered our path."
Missionary Training & Orientation
MissioMishmash: What Is Furlough?
Furlough conjures up many ideas to different people. Some think it is like paid vacation and all-expenses-paid site-seeing. I blogged about this some years ago and recently stumbled upon a nice post by a Nazarene missionary, Howard Culbertson, about what furlough is--he pretended that his list was "discovered in the belongings of a missionary who had to be carried off mumbling incoherently in a strait jacket" after eleven months of furlough.
Why Are So Many People Talking About Contexualization?
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How Do You Measure Missions?
It’s always been frustratingly difficult to appraise missionary ventures. What if Adoniram Judson’s church had pulled him off the field after nine years of what seemed to be fruitless work in Burma? It was the next twenty years that were so incredibly fruitful, and today there are hundreds of thousands of believers in Burma.
The Challenge Of Developing A Strong Indigenous Church Planting Movement In Africa
From the picturesque thatch-roofed villages to the bustling metropolises Africa is a study in contrasts. Africa is the continent where the number one killer is still mosquito-born malaria yet it is the place where the first heart-transplant was successfully carried out. Twenty-first century Africa is dominated by Islam in the north and Christianity across the central and southern regions yet African Traditional Religion remains the primary theological grid.