Does your ministry have an underperforming website? Or do you have yet to enter into the twenty-first century and Internet outreach? Have you (or your donors) heard war stories and astounding stats from high-flying sites and wondered if you could ever see such results? Take heart. For eight years it was my privilege to […]
We should never ignore the empowering of the Holy Spirit in overcoming communication barriers and boundaries in order to share the gospel with people from various languages, cultures and social backgrounds. The tower of Babel may signal the beginning of such obstacles as a result of humanity’s selfishness. God’s response as creator resulted in confusing […]
The Generations Project helps young women ages eighteen to thirty-five develop leadership skills as they plan to enter the workplace or the mission field. The Apostle James states that “as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” The model he offers, to feed faith with works, should compel […]
This is an historical time in the Evangelical Church in Latin America. Never before have so many churches awakened to the universal nature of the missionary task, with such willingness to make their contribution. Let us rejoice because of this new trend, but let us rejoice with caution. Never before have there been so many […]
The Lausanne Issue Group on Religious and Non-Religious Spirituality in the Western World continues to build on the foundation laid in Thailand at the 2004 Forum for World Evangelization. This strategic group continues to address the often-neglected missional challenge of new religious movements, alternative religions and emerging spiritualities in the Western world. After the 2004 […]
Pentecostalism is the fastest growing stream of Christianity in the world today. In fact, the movement is reshaping religion in the twenty-first century.1“Pentecostalism” may be defined as that stream of Christianity which emphasizes personal salvation in Christ as “a transformative experience wrought by the Holy Spirit.” Subsequent to that initial experience, such pneumatic phenomena as “speaking […]
Recent decades have seen radical changes in mission methodologies. Talk has turned to partnership. Increasing numbers of short-term missionaries from the West offer weeks, months, or even a few years of their lives in service. This essay explores some of the implications and outcomes of three approaches (models) to “mission” in Africa in particular, and […]
Scholars and laypeople alike often accuse Christian missions of being a child of colonialism. The Alliance for Vulnerable Mission (AVM) proposes a bold strategy to counter neocolonialism in mission by advocating that some Western missionaries to the Majority World follow two simple principles to “de-power” themselves: using the language of the people being reached in […]
Scholars and laypeople alike often accuse Christian missions of being a child of colonialism. The Alliance for Vulnerable Mission (AVM) proposes a bold strategy to counter neocolonialism in mission by advocating that some Western missionaries to the Majority World follow two simple principles to “de-power” themselves: using the language of the people being reached in […]
When my husband, Frank, and I arrived in the Chaco region of Argentina in 1995, our children were 2, 5, and 8 years old. We had already experienced four years in an urban slum area of Buenos Aires and were quite happy to move to a rather rural area in the north of the country. […]
