Ever since Islam began in the seventh century, there have been Christian communities living as minorities in Muslim-majority contexts. Their circumstances have varied at different times and in different places, but almost always Christians experience some degree of discrimination or hostility. This repeated pattern is not a coincidence – it arises from some of the […]
The world zipped past an unnoticed milestone as 2006 arrived. Over one billion people were online. Roughly 15.7% of the world’s people connected through the fastest communication service ever devised.1 Are Evangelistic Websites Drawing Visitors? The following is a sample list of sites divided by language. Arabic: http://www.maarifa.org/. Called the most popular Arabic-only Christian site […]
Helping the poor without changes in policy is as effective as using a Band-Aid to cure cancer. Conditions for Sustainable Change Working at the grassroots level is essential in dealing with poverty; similarly, efforts to bring about change at both the government and institutional levels are essential to support those working on the frontlines in […]
It is estimated that migrant workers and their families total around 120 million worldwide. As we sat eating various lentil curries with rice, we discussed our background and family. Several men were fisherman in their homeland. We also talked about how long they had been in the country. Then, to our astonishment, one of the […]
I was a bit puzzled, I must confess. There I was at the Lausanne Forum in Pattaya last year and I noticed that ‘Holistic Mission’ was one of the 31 special Issue Groups. I had thought that holistic mission was what Lausanne was all about, not one of many mission interest subdivisions. Somehow, our splendid […]
After my cross-cultural experiences of fifteen years on African mission fields, my research on successful cross-cultural discipleship stretched further. Like other missionaries in their first terms, my early years of missionary work in Kenya had a series of disappointments and discouragements. My greatest struggle was to identify a practical methodology of cross-cultural discipleship. After experiencing […]
In five months, Lausanne Cape Town 2010 (CT2010) will be a fresh opportunity to think about creative approaches for relational forms of evangelism. One new paradigm to consider is glocalized evangelism at the intersection between global people movements and local contexts for cross-cultural evangelistic ministry. Glocalization The term “glocalization” combines the words globalization and localization. […]
In terms of size, the Internet is already very large. Let’s just take two figures: there are 1.5 billion Internet users with 300 million of them on Facebook. At the end of 2009 Facebook will probably be as big as the USA. The new generation is online! The number of users is exploding and is […]
