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What can we learn from the approaches employed by the early Church to reach others for Christ? Root shares five points.Read more…
We should be so connected relationally with other followers of the Lord Jesus that the non-believing world thinks we are one, the author writes.Read more…
One may be surprised to see how simple, yet different, JesusÌ¢‰â‰㢠model of evangelism is when compared to many popular models used today.Read more…
The author shares two resources to expand prayer movements both nationally and internationally.Read more…
Godson looks at how the early Church prayed, where they prayed, and for what they prayed.Read more…
Brown sums up what God did at Cape Town 2010 and how God continues to use the gathering to impact the Church globally.Read more…
Cassidy shares key outcomes of Lausanne III from an African perspective.Read more…
Claydon shares why Lausanne III, more than the previous congresses, was a milestone for women in missions.Read more…
Participants from Eurasia share at least five highlights from Cape Town 2010.Read more…
Three reasons the author thinks the Cape Town Commitment will have a long-lasting impact.Read more…
Daily life is holy. It is full of God. When you share it with others, you enter holy ground. That is where faithfulness, care, struggle, joy, and hope occur.Read more…
Traditionally, the role of Asian women was in the home. However, in church and Christian mission, many Asian women may have been overlooked for their significant impact on the churches and societies in their contexts and of their times.Read more…
The story of how sports have changed the lives of many girls in the West Papuan context.Read more…
Only a handful of women appear on the pages of mission history and theory books. Yet that does not mean they are not integrally engaged in the worldwide cause of the kingdom. They have been since the early Church and continue to be.Read more…
We’ve watched news coverage of tsunamis hitting Indonesia, Thailand, and most recently, Japan. A tsunami is a metaphor we can apply to the effects pornography has on each of us. Tsunamis cause wholesale and nationwide wreckage that will take yearsRead more…
The real power of integrity is the power of a living seed. Infused with the mysterious gift called life, it will bear fruit when it falls to the ground and dies.Read more…
The author offers suggestions on how to close the gap between wanting to impress and woo our audience and having accurate reporting of statistics.Read more…
How would moving from pornography as something we avoid to something we need to break free from change our conversations, trainings, and caring?Read more…
The story of Bartimaeus teaches us at least four significant lessons about having integrity as we respond to each person’s need.Read more…
God calls us to learn, listen, and to live in the light as we grow to be his disciples and disciplers of others.Read more…
Cross-cultural discipleship should include mentoring in four areas and can be demonstrated by using our right hand.Read more…
A life without discipleship will always be a life without JesusÌ¢‰â‰Ûan idea, a myth, a folk religion, without Christ as the center. The author discusses how this plays out in Western Europe.Read more…
How sharing stories of telling the gospel can open up the hearts of those around us.Read more…
How one Muslim man’s faith in Jesus led increasing numbers of fellow Muslims in his community to also put their trust in Jesus as Savior and Lord.Read more…
The more faith we have, the more we can personally testify of Christ so others will be changed. The author demonstrates this through two stories.Read more…
We all have a storyÌ¢‰â‰Ûour story. As Christians, it is our claim to fame.Read more…
We must pull out a divinely-inspired, deeply-passionate understanding that each person we encounter deserves the sum total of our attention, love, comfort, ad infinitum, in that moment.Read more…
Cape Town Commitment architect Chris Wright shares how the CTC came together.Read more…
An introduction to Part 2 of the Cape Town Commitment and how to put it into practice.Read more…
The Cape Town Commitment is needed today as a tool for both calling back and pointing forward–memory and vision.Read more…
An abbreviated version of Lindsay BrownÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s closing address at Cape Town 2010.Read more…
Danish participants who attended Cape Town 2010 gather to reflect on what they heard and plan for the days ahead.Read more…
To be relevant in a hurting world, we must embark on the pilgrimage that Christ invites us to make. The author suggests four ministries of service.Read more…
Forgiveness and reconciliation that inspire hope in divided and fragmented communities is inspired and empowered by the suffering and sacrifice of Christ.Read more…
Instead of quibbling over the immutable truth of GodÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s word, we must do whatever it takes to carry the saving message of Jesus Christ to those who have never heard, so that those in poverty will not have the worst of two worlds.Read more…
Local, national, regional, and global Generosity Networks connect Christians and enable a global culture of increased generosity and stewardship.Read more…
Rejoice Liberia took place in March 2010 as the first event of Mission Africa.Read more…
The Huye Rwanda Mission for Jesus, one of twenty-one Mission Africa evangelistic events conducted across Africa, was the largest mission organized in the city since the 1994 genocide.Read more…
International evangelists pair with African evangelists in Zimbabwe to see more than one thousand people commit their lives to Christ.Read more…
The state of the Church in the United States in 2010 is quite complex and even enigmatic. On one hand, the Church is facing some formidable challenges. On the other hand, there are many encouraging opportunities that God is affordingRead more…
The hope for the Church in 2020 is no different than it has been throughout history. God has always raised up pastors and church leaders to proclaim the message of salvation to the lost and equip the saints for theRead more…
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream… (Amos 5:24) Twenty-seven million people are enslaved in the world today. In a few years, Natasha could be one of them. The Church needs to be awareRead more…
(LWP editors asked Grace Samson about her hopes for the Church in 2020. Below are her answers.) Q. What are your hopes for the global Church ten years from now? A. My hope is that the church will exist beyondRead more…
I hope very few people will talk about Business as Mission (BAM) in 2020. The term is like scaffolding: it is needed for a season as we build the real thing—businesses that glorify God and bring about holistic transformation ofRead more…
(LWP editors asked Rosalee Velloso Ewell about her hopes for the Church in 2020. Below are her answers.) Q. What are your hopes for the global Church ten years from now? A. I have two main hopes. First, I haveRead more…
(Editor’s note: This “letter” is dated ten years from now. It is from Samuel Chiang to his friend, Harold Smith, president/CEO of Christianity Today International. Chiang details the wonderful things God has done since 1 December 2010.) 1 December 2020Read more…
Partnerships do not just happen by themselves. They require ingenuity, creativity, hard work, and similar passions.Read more…
The author shares collaboration efforts that have been established between the East and the West.Read more…
Several networks have formed in Southeast Asia over the past few decades.Read more…
A web of alliances in Honduras has allowed local churches and ministries to significantly engage the unreached of Europe for Christ.Read more…
It is urgent for the future of the Church that we recover a whole-life model of discipleship that understands every legitimate human activity as responding to a call from God.Read more…
The author shares an example from South Africa of how mission is being done in the workplace.Read more…
The author shares six Christian principles for public service.Read more…
The author offers reasons Christians should get involved in politics and advice for those pursuing this realm of civic life and those supporting those in politics.Read more…
The reason why spiritual warfare is so important is that prayer is not only about talking to God, but about defeating the devil and his evil plans.Read more…
The suffering of the Christian is distinctive because it continues ChristÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s sufferings.Read more…
A discussion of the issues related to international legal protection of the freedom of religion and belief.Read more…
The reason why spiritual warfare is so important is that prayer is not only about talking to God, but about defeating the devil and his evil plans.Read more…
The Church needs Ì¢‰âÂÒpioneer missionariesÌ¢‰âÂå who understand the culture and can use current media and technology to effectively communicate the gospel.Read more…
The digital Ì¢‰âÂÒRoman roadÌ¢‰âÂå has been built. The Lord has provided a way to spread the good news to places otherwise unreachable.Read more…
The very heart of how we minister is being changed forever in at least ten significant areas.Read more…
Social media and networking are challenging us to transform the way in which we engage the world with the love of Jesus.Read more…
The trends of text messaging and Twitter point in the direction of things to comeÌ¢‰â‰Ûnamely, mobile computing. What does this mean for the Church and how it fulfills its mission?Read more…
The author takes a biblical look at bridge people and shares why individuals with dual ethnicities are key to the growth of the church.Read more…
The local church has slowly begun to take center stage as the primary instrument of mission. This deviates off the traditional concept that mission stems from missionary societies.Read more…
What are the demands of the Kingdom of God in relation to ethnic diversity? The author shares five elements.Read more…
Today, the cross-cultural experience is not taking place in a foreign land. The world is coming to our doorsteps as people on the move. Diaspora can be a global phenomenon with local implications or a local phenomenon with global implications.Read more…
The author shares the four-part process of Internet glocal evangelism.Read more…
Being black and evangelical in South Africa means being a witness in at least three respects.Read more…
The author identifies restraints that are holding back progress that the Holy Spirit wants to see as pastors, business leaders, and laity come together to minister.Read more…
An overview of South African missionary history, Apartheid, and the Church as it moves toward reconciliation and healing in a long-divided land.Read more…
The authors share how overcoming racist mindsets and denominationalism can be done through unity, integrity, and love.Read more…
Being black and evangelical in South Africa means being a witness in at least three respects.Read more…
If we keep the gospel to ourselves, not only will Jews suffer, but also our own understanding of what JesusÌ¢‰â‰㢠life, death, and resurrection mean.Read more…
What does it mean to be a committed pluralist while still holding Christ as the only means of salvation?Read more…
Understanding the cross of Christ, mission, and the glory of God in a pluralistic society.Read more…
For the goal of mutual understanding and enrichment, and also for the sake of evangelism, we need to listen to and learn from the teachings of Buddhism.Read more…
The author asks, “What form of faith affirmation should be expected from caste Hindus if they are to be converted to Christianity?”Read more…
Islam per se is not necessarily the greatest challenge facing Christians today, but rather how Christians choose to respond to Islam.Read more…
Countering trafficking is no easy task and needs a four-pronged attack if success is to be achieved.Read more…
In Thailand, there is a need for life-transforming alternatives based on human dignity and rights for women who are oppressed and victimized.Read more…
How one woman heard the call of God and began interacting with prostitutes in Greece.Read more…
Water alone can save lives and change destinies, but the living water of Jesus can save lives and change destinies for eternity.Read more…
Understanding the nature and purpose of the arts is vital for evangelism and missions, because of the strategic role they play in every culture. Every people group reinforces and passes on its story through the arts.Read more…
Arts for Christ aims to move the hearts and minds of artists in the Arab World to glorify God and proclaim his love.Read more…
La fonderie seeks Ì¢‰âÂÒto value, inspire, encourage, and emboldenÌ¢‰âÂå French Christian artists.Read more…
How the BRIDGES curriculum, developed by Scriptures in Use, is being used to link story and the gospel message in Southeast Asia and beyond.Read more…
A brief history of Bible translation tools, including the recently released Paratext 7.0.Read more…
The popular breakthrough of the Internet forces the Church to think in new ways about its communication.Read more…
Examples of how people in Togo and Bolivia have been transformed by the stories and narrative of scripture.Read more…
The author asks, Ì¢‰âÂÒHow do we communicate to both the speaking and thinking of primary oral communicators?Ì¢‰âÂåRead more…
A strategy for Ì¢‰âÂÒdistributingÌ¢‰âÂå scripture to non-literates needs to be substantially different from the approaches used when distributing printed scripture.Read more…
Bible translation and the “translated church.”Read more…
Envisioning the future of scripture translation includes four key needs.Read more…
There are numerous advantages to having nationals translate the Bible for their own people.Read more…
An overview of the Overseas Chinese Christian Church in Seoul and how it has impacted immigrants and youth.Read more…
Chinese churches and influence are increasingly penetrating Japanese society.Read more…
The author highlights the current implications of the people group concept, especially from an African perspective, in the context of present global realities.Read more…
Nearly ninety Christian leaders from AfricaÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s Great Lakes region and the United States assembled in Burundi to discuss the social realities of Africa and the accompanying Christian response.Read more…
With millions of people who cannot read or write, the need for oral strategies for sharing the gospel is vital. An example of how audio players are being used to lead people to Christ.Read more…
Although some parts of a Christian worldview change depending upon time, place, culture, and language, other parts transcend all times and places.Read more…
The author shares principles that have made a break-through of the gospel possible among some of the remaining nations to be reached.Read more…
Islam per se is not necessarily the greatest challenge facing Christians today, but rather how Christians choose to respond to Islam.Read more…
Insights into evangelism as cross-cultural mission to those in New Spiritualities.Read more…
Considerations for the Asian Church to fulfill God’s destiny for her.Read more…
Why utilitarian ethics fail–and what the Church can do about it.Read more…
Ministering to and with persons who have a disability necessitates a compelling spirit and urgency.Read more…
A deeper look into the hostile realm in conflict with the Kingdom of God…and how the power of the gospel reigns supreme.Read more…
When men and women partner together and use their God-given gifts, the Lord uses this powerful unity to advance his mission.Read more…
The Christian solution to the ecological crisis is not to equate humans with the creation, but to see their role as something very special in and even above creation.Read more…
High Council of Religious Leaders brings together key leaders to seek unity and peace in Iraq and surrounding areas.Read more…
The author asks, “How does the reconciliation of God in Christ apply to the question of men and women working together in the Church?”Read more…
The author shares how Mission To Children and its program, Character Solutions International, is helping adults to cultivate character in children.Read more…
The author asks, “Is heart impurity threatening our lives?”Read more…
The author offers three foundational observations to create a context for how the Church might get involved in equipping Christians within the professions to pursue thoughtful, redemptive change for themselves, their companies, and the community.Read more…
The author discusses the danger of leaders learning the possibility of being fruitful without being pure.Read more…
Lessons from Jeremiah 29 for the Diaspora Church.Read more…
Since the world is our parish, we, in North America, must overcome the challenges of finding out who our neighbor is.Read more…
What the Bible says about injustice…and how we should respond.Read more…
The author surveys how “diaspora” is used in biblical times and describes how Jewish diaspora is related to Christian missions.Read more…
The author asks, “How we can influence the Indian diaspora to be discipled to follow Jesus Christ in our generation?”Read more…
South Korea is home to an estimated two thousand nationals from Myanmar. The author shares a case study of Onnuri Myanmar Community, which ministers to Myanmar nationals in Korea.Read more…
Lausanne’s Senior Associate for Diasporas talks about how LausanneÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s Diasporas Leadership Team is working toward the mission of Ì¢‰âÂÒthe whole Church bringing the whole gospel to the whole world.Ì¢‰âÂåRead more…
An interaction between the author’s father and a stranger demonstrates how obedience to God’s leading must override our fears, doubts, and selfishness in interacting with those we don’t know.Read more…
Five ways to re-educate churches to engage their contexts with the good news of God’s rule in Jesus Christ.Read more…
The Internet links people with ideas and builds relationships. Since evangelism is also based upon connecting and 2-way relationships, there is a perfect match.Read more…
Health is disease conquered and healed, as eternal shalom is shalom by conquering chaos and disharmony.Read more…
Healing involves a struggle against injustice by making the necessary resources available to the poor. This is the attitude in which the mission for salvation or healing must be forwarded in the world.Read more…
Part of the mission of the Church is not only to treat Ì¢‰âÂÒthe least of theseÌ¢‰âÂå with respect and dignity, but to find practical ways to restore them to the life God intends for them.Read more…
We need to radically revise our understanding of who a missionary is in the contemporary, globalized world.Read more…
The author discusses how our praying has been bringing us into more dynamic and direct engagement with the world.Read more…
The Frontier’s Knowledge Stewardship initiative seeks to identify, capture, and distill field workersÌ¢‰â‰㢠experience and cross-pollinate this in ways that equip ield teams to become more effective in their calling.Read more…
How and why did the early Church grow?Read more…
Several factors, including the use of the home and the inclusion of women, contributed to the growth of the early Church.Read more…
How prayer related to evangelization has increased and changed in phenomenal ways since the 1984 International Prayer Assembly for World Evangelization.Read more…
An overview of Liberia, its Christian foundation, and the realities of the Church and missions.Read more…
Factors hindering mission endeavors in Liberia.Read more…
Christians and persecution: from Baghdad to Nineveh and Mosul.Read more…
The conditions for Christians in war-torn Somalia have continued to deteriorate. Yet despite all the difficulties, Christian workers continue to faithfully labor among the Somali people.Read more…
What kind of person sees persecution as biblical, expected, and hardly worth mentioning? A person steeped in the story of scripture and well-acquainted with God.Read more…
An overview of Christianity and persecution in Angola from 1984 to 1995.Read more…
Most of the persecution of Christians can be attributed to one of three groups: Islamic states, totalitarian secular states, and countries fighting Christian missionary work.Read more…
Persecution has often been related to the growth and mission of the Church.Read more…
How the Talking Bible is leading people to Christ in Mozambique and beyond.Read more…
Story-telling is effective in evangelism today because post-moderns are ready for demonstration.Read more…
God could have chosen to save lost humanity by any means; however, he chose to save us by the power of the gospel preached to the sinner.Read more…
The story of how one man’s life was changed when he attended a listening group in Managua.Read more…
“The Proclaimer” is being used by many to lead non-readers to faith in Christ.Read more…
Every people and culture has a story that must be confronted with the story of the kingdom.Read more…
There are things common to university students that make ministry among them a valuable use of time.Read more…
In order to turn the tide of moral decay South Africa is rapidly heading toward, the Church should invest in children, youth, and young adults.Read more…
One international church is reaching out to graduate students who are highly intellectual and skeptical of faith issues.Read more…
Five reasons why Christian ministry among students is so important.Read more…
Student ministry is most strategic for the mission of God. It has always been so.Read more…
An overview of the Chinese Church both within China and its work in missions worldwide.Read more…
Five lessons from missional house churches in the United States.Read more…
Using the strategy Jesus employedÌ¢‰â‰Ûof moving people from outside the kingdom to becoming believers, disciples, workers, and eventually world ChristiansÌ¢‰â‰Ûchurch-planting ministries have consistently employed their own versions of what some refer to as the “Ministry Multiplication Cycle.”Read more…
The Luke Partnership includes: the translation of LukeÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s Gospel (usually published in both print and audio form), the JESUS film (based on the Gospel of Luke), and further Old and New Testament selections.Read more…
One of the greatest challenges the Church faces in the modern Western context is the general turn away from interest in and involvement with institutionalized forms of religion, such as Christianity, and the corresponding move toward an inward and subjective expression of spirituality.Read more…
In African hands, mission and evangelization have truly gone international, and African diaspora Christianity is at the forefront of the new initiatives.Read more…
In the same way that European migrations from ChristianityÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s old heartland provided the impetus for the European missionary movement, phenomenal migrations from ChristianityÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s new heartlands have galvanized a massive non-Western missionary movement.Read more…
A look at missionary migrant churches in Germany.Read more…
Principles for evangelism among young people in Europe and principles for leadership development in young Christians in Europe.Read more…
Generational theory suggests we seek to see the world through the eyes of other people.Read more…
The author offers five practical ways to encourage others, especially the next generation of leaders.Read more…
The Generations Project is calling young people not only to establish righteousness in their nations by serving in places of influence, but to take on problems in their communities.Read more…
If we are to reach Europeí¢ä‰åä‹¢s youth, we need to cultivate and encourage “missional imagination” in leaders.Read more…
Thirty-one participants representing twenty countries were in attendance for the 5-day “The Whole Gospel” consultation in Chiang Mai.Read more…
Exploring the implications and outcomes of three mission methodologies (approaches) to Ì¢‰âÂÒmissionÌ¢‰âÂå (in particular, Africa).Read more…
While opposition to the gospel should not surprise us, there is an urgent need for Christians to introspect, investigate, and revisit our theology and our ministry strategies and practices.Read more…
Four areas in which the Lausanne Covenant exerted self-criticism and which are still points that individuals and organizations developing mission policies and shaping missionary practice would do well to pay attention to today.Read more…
The author asks, “Are we right if we regard mission as the overriding interpretation of the Great Commission?”Read more…
By the 1960s, evangelical leaders in Africa, Asia, and Latin America started the quest for a theology of evangelism that would match their activism but also respond to the tremendous social tensions of that decade. This continues today.Read more…
The author discusses two spheres and stages of Pentecostal mission development.Read more…
Pentecostals need to be involved in mission engagement that aims at justice in social, economic, political, racial, and environmental areas.Read more…
The Evangelical Church in Latin America is experiencing a unique missionary awakening in Protestant history. The poor are engaged in missionary activity and are investing their potential, talents, and resources in fulfilling the universal missionary call of the Church.Read more…
Ministry formation in Jesus’ time, in the Constantinian world, and today.Read more…
Christians in all cultures and nations have an equal right to produce their interpretation of the Christian faith. This implies a need for self-theologizing.Read more…
De-westernization of the gospel requires time, critical dialogue with nationals, and the illumination of the Holy Spirit.Read more…
There is a desperate need for Western missionaries who can be accurately persuaded to be vulnerable enough to imitate African people, so as to acquire something of their presuppositional foundation, and in turn, be able to present the true gospel.Read more…
European levels of church attendance are deteriorating; therefore, a focus on “church as mission” (not structure) is necessary.Read more…
The Church has a word for the world about our Lord Jesus Christ; however, we must work on making it contextually relevant and culturally comprehensible.Read more…
New initiatives in the Church of England have led to new communities of Christians meeting on different days of the week, in different places, learning to be church together.Read more…
How does Christianity interact with other major religious traditions and how does this interaction affect Christian identity?Read more…
We must not forget the key purposes of the Church: to share the good news of Jesus, to bring redemption, to change lives and to take risks.Read more…
New Life Center in Kitgum, Uganda, provides holistic development and psychosocial support to formerly-abducted child mothers and their children.Read more…
In the ME/NA, modern media is not only helpful, it is indispensable and has become critically important to the very existence of the Church.Read more…
Internally Displaced Persons in northern Iraq are facing tremendous challenges, including having little access to food and housing.Read more…
Several New Testament situations prove that worship and evangelism go hand in hand.Read more…
There are at least three aspects of doxological evangelization.Read more…
Five ways in which worship and evangelism (the declaration and living out of the good news) belong together.Read more…
To worship in the midst of darkness: that is evangelization.Read more…
(Editor’s note: This article is also available in English. For the English version, click here.) Introducción Una de las primeras cosas que debiéramos tener en claro siempre que hablamos de evangelización es que ella representa mucho más que una meraRead more…
In Kenya, HIV-prevalence, particularly among college-age students, is extremely high. I Choose LifeÌ¢‰â‰ÛAfrica is seeking to address this problem.Read more…
Reaching out to individuals with AIDS requires love and action.Read more…
The ChurchÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s role is to break the silence and talk openly with people to rebuild wrong thoughts about sex and HIV/AIDS. The Evangelical Church in Egypt is seeking to do just this.Read more…
While there is a need for many Christians to undertake HIV/AIDS as a life calling, it is equally crucial that large numbers engage the pandemic where they are at now.Read more…
Unity in the Body of Christ in the Middle East requires intentional reconciliation between Arab Christians from Palestine, Arab Israeli Christians and Messianic Jews.Read more…
In the midst of great conflict in Colombia, local churches and communities are seeking to bring restoration.Read more…
Reflections and updates on the Lausanne Reconciliation Issue Group and the Global Network for Reconciliation.Read more…
ALARM-Rwanda recently conducted a retreat for church leaders to discuss the role of the Church in remembering the 1994 genocide which devastated the country.Read more…
The work of becoming peacemakers between divided people is not secondary or optional, but is central to Christian mission along with planting churches and making disciples.Read more…
Unfortunately, for much of the Church in recent history, evangelism and peacemaking have been seen as separate tasks. Instead, they need to be integrated.Read more…
Baghdad is in the midst of war. And yet, the gospel is being proclaimed boldly through love and pray.Read more…
Women of God International seeks to serve African women in leadership positions through prayer, evangelism, edification, teaching, social concerns and leadership events.Read more…
For most of GodÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s people, developing a heart for those who are poor is cultivated by being among the them.Read more…
As Christians, we need to move away from the place where our attempts at compassionate ministries degrade poor people; instead, we must embrace poor persons in relationships that affirm their identity and dignity.Read more…
Ten to eleven percent of the world’s population has a disability. Here you will find ways to minister to this under-reached people group.Read more…
Few experiences in our lives as Christians can match the joy of seeing a member of our own family come to faith in Christ. Yet few duties seem as difficult.Read more…
A thoughtful approach to Jewish-Gentile couples and their families may provide valuable insights for reaching couples and families from other mixed religious traditions as well.Read more…
With 2.3 billion children in the world, evangelizing takes creativity and a passion for seeing young people come to Christ.Read more…
The need for specialized training for pastoral leaders in India is great. The current training models are symbols of hope, pointing to a bright future for reaching leaders in India.Read more…
How can we do training that ensures the development of effective cross-cultural servants of God?Read more…
FTLT (Focus Team Leadership Training), based in South Africa, is a missionary training school designed to effectively train today’s and tomorrow’s leaders for ministry.Read more…
One couple shares their experience with studying missions at Redcliffe College, Centre for Mission Training in Gloucester, United Kingdom.Read more…
Training for missions and evangelism should be held in careful balance in the following three areas: character, knowledge and skills.Read more…
When it comes to teaching church multiplication, effective training programs should be designed around P.L.A.N.T.S.Read more…
Using media to overcome communication barriers and boundaries when sharing the gospel involves content creators and content transformers.Read more…
Raising awareness regarding the current international context and practices of communication between international Christian leaders might yield near-term as well as eternal dividends.Read more…
With technology changing the world so rapidly, Christians need to keep pace.Read more…
Communication is an integral part of mission and each person has his or her role in it.Read more…
An examination of the approaches of Jesus and the Apostolic Church to evangelizing their world included at least eight principles.Read more…
If we do not get discipleship right, we probably will have a deficient understanding and practice of evangelisation.Read more…
In our haste (which we could regard as commendable) to carry the gospel far and wide, in our urgency to Ì¢‰âÂÒreachÌ¢‰âÂå as many people as possible, evangelicals have been the most guilty of all in tragic gospel reductionism. However, here are seven strategies for change.Read more…
Evangelism and discipleship should be integrated into one whole experience and not be held separate or in any preferred order.Read more…
Evangelism begins and ends in discipleship.Read more…
Comprehensive contextualization includes not only theology, but all seven dimensions of the religious life.Read more…
Missio Dei establishes the priority of GodÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s activity in terms of mission and characterizes God himself as being a missionary God.Read more…
It is imperative to integrate the gospel with culture in a responsible manner and this integration must be done within the context of a community who are mature in their faith and knowledge of scripture.Read more…
Contextualization is imperative to reaching the unreached. Understanding the culture we are in is the beginning of the process.Read more…
Contextualization in ministry to Muslims needs to consider all the barriers to why Muslims have historically been resistant to the gospel.Read more…
Increasing awareness on environmental issues is a strategic opportunity for Christians to look at scripture with new eyes.Read more…
Christians have been given the command to care for God’s creation. We must be obedient to that command.Read more…
Five reasons why evangelicals should be involved in what is said and done with regard to climate change.Read more…
Tentmakers International seeks to promote the concept of “tentmaking as mission” as a way to reach those who would otherwise not be reached.Read more…
In the postmodern era, we need to be concerned not with bringing people to church, but to bringing the church to people.Read more…
Postmodernism calls for a subtler mode of evangelism. The declaration of Ì¢‰âÂÒthus says the LordÌ¢‰âÂå must be clothed in an attractive coat.Read more…
As emerging churches seek to infiltrate the culture and transform society, a greater understanding of the movement on the part of the established Church is needed.Read more…
Twenty-five leading Bible agencies around the world have partnered to make God’s word available worldwide.Read more…
The Bible and church planting must go hand in hand.Read more…
Bible translation must take into account societal factors and developments in biblical studies, linguistics and the social sciences.Read more…
Understanding the history of Bible translation can help Bible translators today better prepare for the context in which they will find themselves.Read more…
A Wycliffe Bible translation teams works with one Polynesian group to get the Bible in the people’s language.Read more…
Within the context of fatalism, pessimism, violence and debt, the Portuguese evangelical community is responding to the deepest needs of the Portuguese society. (Original Portuguese text also available.)Read more…
The Church is often known for what it stands against instead of what it stands for. As millions of people struggle with AIDS worldwide, the Church must come alongside them in love.Read more…
Experimentation with online classes through the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology offers valuable insight into online theological training.Read more…
The Christian global mandate is that we be God’s witnesses in the world. Instead of building our own empires, we must stay focused on evangelizing the lost.Read more…
The most basic requirement of evangelistic preaching is to clearly understand and explain the person and work of Jesus Christ.Read more…
The question of the uniqueness of Christ is one that needs to be answered in order for the Church to fulfill its mission of world evangelization.Read more…
Although all of the major world religions share certain characteristics in common, there are at least four things that distinguish the Christian faith from the others.Read more…
The author offers four indispensable elements for ministry and missions leaders to consider in the course of initiating and engaging in global alliances.Read more…
The processes of globalization can help us, as missional Christians, clear the path for the advancement of the gospel; yet it can simultaneously cut us if we are not careful.Read more…
SIL, Wycliffe Bible Translators’ main partner working in the South Peru Scripture Advance Project, is poised to reach about a million and a half Cusco Quechua speakers. (Kaymi puntapi qelqasqa karqan qheswa rimaypi. Chayta rikuyta munaspaykiqa qhawachiq wach’ita kaypi churaspayki ÌÄå±it’iy.)Read more…
Communities are being transformed across Africa because communication bridges are being used to share the gospel with oral cultures.Read more…
Making Disciples of Primary Oral Learners 14-16 November 2006 www.ion2006.org The Inside Story 15-17 November 2006 www.theinsidestory06.com The International Orality Network is offering two unique, overlapping conferences in November 2006 to address distinct aspects of the orality movement. These conferencesRead more…
Reaching the seventy percent non-literate oral population in Bihar State, India has always been a problem. But doors are now opening.Read more…
Answering the question of why Bible storying is important today.Read more…
Finding the right kind of tools to use to share the gospel with oral cultures takes creativity and an understanding of the audience.Read more…
Fulfilling the Great Commission among oral learners requires rethinking, recreating and reproducing resources and methods.Read more…
Today’s slums collectively hold one billion of the earth’s people. They need to hear the gospel.Read more…
Reaching out to individuals struggling with poverty and homelessness requires the love that comes only from Christ.Read more…
Affirming formal, non-formal and informal methods of education are necessary for ministry in the city.Read more…
Evangelism, Christian camps, Christian literature and biblical teaching during special events are used to reach Mexico City for Christ.Read more…
Reaching the world for Christ includes reaching the urban centers of all nations.Read more…
Understanding the Church’s place in a city, town or city/region requires research and wisdom.Read more…
Five characteristics (and lessons) help explain the incredible rise of Pentecostalism around the world.Read more…
A look at revival and spiritual awakening both in South Africa and around the world.Read more…
The Haystack Prayer Meeting in 1806 on the Williams College campus (Massachusetts, USA) is still impacting the worldwide student missions movement.Read more…
When we look at the history of revival there is one common denominator: there was some person or some group of people praying and agonizing to birth the revival.Read more…
Pentecostals see aggressive evangelism in the pages of the New Testament and interpret the Pentecostal experience as a mandate for evangelism.Read more…
God is actively rejuvenating his servants on American college campuses through non-stop prayer meetings.Read more…
Over the past two hundred years the student missions movement has been re-emerging as a strong force in worldwide evangelism and missions.Read more…
African Pentecostal/charismatic churches are complex, growing and an important element in the global Church structure.Read more…
From their humble beginnings, ESCENERIO now reaches numerous Latin America countries for Christ with the arts. (Este artÌÄå_culo fue escrito originalmente en espaÌÄå±ol. Chasque aquÌÄå_ para el texto espaÌÄå±ol.)Read more…
COMIX35 seeks to equip Christians around the world to use comics, the world’s most widely read form of popular literature, to reach others for Christ.Read more…
Thai dance is particularly suitable for worship because of the graceful, non-suggestive movements. This article is a descriptive pictorial.Read more…
Sacred Ink, an Internet outreach tool or bridge, exists to speak the language of ink and Jesus.Read more…
The Christian Dance Fellowship of Malaysia is using both Christian and secular venues to encourage believers and reach non-believers.Read more…
The story of how one Malaysian artist uses acrylics and batik-dyeing to teach biblical themes.Read more…
Approximately seventy-five percent of scripture consists of narrative; fifteen percent is expressed in poetic form.Read more…
Many styles of dance are being used around the world as worship to God.Read more…
Written in the style of a play, this article uses actors, design and production crew members and narrators to tell how the gospel and play go hand in hand.Read more…
The story of how sports drew one man to Christ and how he is now reaching others through this avenue.Read more…
Four examples of how missional churches and ministries in Japan are using the arts to share the gospel in diverse and effective ways.Read more…
Today’s Church must have great power to preach the gospel and great grace to practice kingdom values.Read more…
Nearly 2.5 of the six billion people on earth are aged 15-35. Innovista helps this younger generation engage with Jesus in the context of contemporary culture.Read more…
Vision 50:15 seeks to mobilize fifty thousand Nigerians over the next fifteen years to take the gospel back to Jerusalem.Read more…
Dalit leaders and the Christian Church are empowering children in India through educational facilities.Read more…
Mentoring future leaders is both biblical and challenging.Read more…
Using Luke 15 to share kingdom values to individuals and communities in Africa.Read more…
There are two paradigms of evangelism that will help the Church evolve effectively in the changing world.Read more…
Effective leadership is all about relationships.Read more…
An evangelism professor shares four key elements of the evangelistic enterprise today.Read more…
Today’s Church must have great power to preach the gospel and great grace to practice kingdom values.Read more…
Prayer leads to open doors; open doors lead to people hearing about and accepting Jesus Christ.Read more…
More than two million Christians in over one hundred countries are expected to unite for prayer for children at risk 3-4 June.Read more…
A step-by-step look at beginning a prayer evangelism ministry.Read more…
Eight reasons why prayer is so important in evangelism.Read more…
Prayer and human methods are the two wings required for the airplane of evangelism to successfully get off the ground, fly safely at the appropriate altitude and arrive at its intended destination.Read more…
Biblical guidelines for combining fasting with prayer evangelism.Read more…
The story of how one man’s vision led to a national annual prayer week which has transformed countless lives.Read more…
Prayer leads to open doors; open doors lead to people hearing about and accepting Jesus Christ.Read more…
Using the web effectively with online resources and materials.Read more…
Children’s website offers fun, entertainment and Christian teaching to kids around the world.Read more…
In 1999 the Internet Evangelism Coalition officially began and today serves as a central resource center for equipping and connecting those involved with online evangelism.Read more…
One online ministry offers the younger generation in India the opportunity to accept Christ and grow in their faith through online counseling and discipleship.Read more…
One example of how planning and implementing an Internet evangelism ministry in your church can lead to kingdom results.Read more…
The Internet is opening doors to sharing the gospel in majority Muslim countries.Read more…
The Bible Gateway and other websites allow web users access to the entire scriptures.Read more…
Evangelistic websites use different models to share the gospel. This variety makes online evangelism more effective than ever.Read more…
A pioneering website in the Internet outreach movement offers lessons for today’s online ministries.Read more…
Ten overarching trends in short-term missions.Read more…
Mobilizing and equipping believers to reach ethnic communities in North America.Read more…
Short-term mission teams around the world are using the Talking Bibles to minister to those they are serving.Read more…
Integrity and excellence in short-term missions.Read more…
Relationships are crucial to short-term missions, but relationships come at a cost.Read more…
New Research shows New Zealand’s children are uninformed of the central stories in the Bible.Read more…
A report on the October 2005 Fellowship of Short-term Mission leaders gathering.Read more…
An interview with Melissa, a short-term missionary with Latin America Mission.Read more…
Short-term missions can lead to a lifetime of ministry.Read more…
Short-term mission has missed the point of the Great Commission.Read more…
Looking at the stategic potential of short-term missions.Read more…
Urbana’s impact through short-term missions.Read more…
Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN can help hundreds of millions of people who are interested in searching for faith to find the gospel.Read more…
From films, books, television and videogames, media and the art of storytelling have become the currency of culture and influence in our world. And though it’s often an unconventional method within the body of Christ, I can’t think of a greater place to communicate the stories and truths of God than through these mediums.Read more…
Could God use you to reach people for Christ via the Internet? The answer may surprise you.Read more…
Isaiah 29:18 says, Ì¢‰âÂÒAnd in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the Book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.Ì¢‰âÂå Without Christ we are all spiritually deaf to God. Deaf people need the gospel. God opens deaf spiritual ears through total communication for the deaf.Read more…
The old stereotype of a nattily-dressed hawker standing on the street corner handing out black and white Ì¢‰âÂÒhellfireÌ¢‰âÂå gospel tracts is gone. Well, nearly. Modern-day tract evangelism has become extremely relevant, effective and even technological. And the best part isÌ¢‰âÂå_itÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s all so easy.Read more…
The JESUS Film Project remains faithful to the calling of joining Christian workers throughout the worldÌ¢‰â‰Ûboth CCCI staff members and partnership ministriesÌ¢‰â‰Ûto lift up Jesus in the whole world by producing language translations for the unreached people groups of the world.Read more…
The advent of the Ì¢‰âÂÒTalking BibleÌ¢‰âÂå revolutionizes how we can make the translated scriptures available in audio for non-readers.Read more…
Asian Christians creatively make use of folk media as well as modern communication technology for evangelization purposes. Evangelism is more than transmission of information, it is also relationship building, giving voice for the voiceless and enabling people to search for their identities.Read more…
In a traditional sense, the countries of Latin America have had access to the light of the gospel for decades, yet thousands still live in the dark, remaining Ì¢‰âÂÒunchangedÌ¢‰âÂå in their lifestyles.Read more…
It is amazing to see what God has done at the turn of the millennium using modern satellite technology both in Germany and throughout Europe.Read more…
The mission of Outreach, Inc.is to empower Christian churches to reach their communities for Jesus Christ. To do this, we seek to identify and utilize timely and appropriate bridges of relevance by which churches can engage the culture.Read more…
Beslan is a small town where people seem to know something about nearly everyone. ItÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s a town where hospitality is treasured and where children walk the streets freely. Beslan is a town where cows can graze wherever they please. ItÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s a town where one can often hear the rooster crow.Read more…
Sri Lankan beaches are the most picturesque in the world. Soft sounds of the waves lapping, an endless strip of white, sandy beaches contrasting with deep, blue waters and coral reefs that are home to many types of tropical fishÌ¢‰â‰Ûthese are the wonders of the Sri Lankan coastRead more…
Youth with a Mission (YWAM) teams have been working in war zones, crisis and natural disasters for the past twenty-six years. However, nothing has impacted us more than the 2004 tsunami.Read more…
Christians can look to the example of Nehemiah to respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by disasters, but they must first Ì¢‰âÂÒsurrender all.Ì¢‰âÂåRead more…
The residents of the upper and lower ninth ward in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, never expected to hear the cracking sounds of the levee that gave way to the rushing floodwaters brought on by Hurricane Katrina.Read more…
Where were you when the tsunami of 2005 devastated huge portions of Southeast Asia?Read more…
Abstinence is working in the fight against AIDS in Africa. Findings which have appeared controversial, contradictory or politicized to both mainstream media and secular aid agencies continue to show that the Ì¢‰âÂÒAbstinence, Be faithful or use a CondomÌ¢‰âÂå (ABC) promotion in places such as Uganda, Rwanda and other African nations is slowing the numbers of people being infected and living with HIV/AIDS.Read more…
World AIDS Day is 1 December and the Global AIDS Prayer Partnership is launching two new initiatives to help mobilize an evangelical response to the AIDS pandemic.Read more…
HIV/AIDS is a modern-day plague marching nearly unimpeded across the face of the African continent. It threatens peace and stability as it wipes out entire generations, leaving millions of orphans in its wake. The statistics are daunting.Read more…
Over one and half million people live in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. That is half the cityÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s population. More than 300,000 people are crowded together in Karagoche, NairobiÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s worst slum. Families live in extreme poverty and struggle to make a living.Read more…
Only a few days ago, we lost another little child. One of his friends had been praying for him, just as he had prayed for two other friends, Kamau and Kimani. Now, this friend was gone too.Read more…
Ì¢‰âÂÒYou gave us your heart.Ì¢‰âÂå These five words are foundational in my ministry. At times it is easy to be frustrated with missions and in particular with HIV/AIDS ministries.Read more…
Among students in the health professions, the Annual Global Missions Health Conference (GMHC) in Louisville, KY, USA, is quickly becoming known as the Ì¢‰âÂÒUrbanaÌ¢‰âÂå of healthcare missions.Read more…
CAH (Christian AIDS Services/Association) is an independently-registered association and member of the Deaconry Work of Hessen and Nassau in Germany.Read more…
The issue of HIV/AIDS in the world today is so large that it may appear beyond hope. According to the UNAIDS/WHO 2004 AIDS Epidemic Update, there are more than 13,400 new infections and 8,400 deaths each day from HIV/AIDS.Read more…
During the 2004 Lausanne Conference in Pattaya, Thailand, the study group meeting to discuss holistic mission turned their attention to the AIDS pandemic as the most urgent of world concerns needing the attention of the Church.Read more…
On 1 September 2005, the Indonesian Indramayu local court found Dr. Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti and Ratna Bangun guilty of breaching the 2002 Child Protection Law and sentenced them to three years in prison.Read more…
Ì¢‰âÂÒIt must be understood that there are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far too great.Read more…
Three Protestant Full Gospel churches in the capital of Rangoon and a series of Protestant house churches elsewhere in the country have been closed down in the capital of Rangoon since early August, Burmese protestant sources told Forum 18 News Service.Read more…
On 27 August 2005 Father Iwan Rusbani Setyawan was finishing the 5 p.m. mass at St. Anthony Chapel in Margahayu, a suburb of Bandung in West Java, Indonesia. This is what happened next:Read more…
I went to meet Mrs. M. today. Her husband was a wonderful pastor who loved and reached out to Muslims. He was assassinated recently.Read more…
While most Muslim states have signed United Nations declarations on human rights, they usually add caveats stating these are accepted as long as they do not contradict Islamic law (shariÌ¢‰âÂèÏa).Read more…
I was a bit puzzled, I must confess. There I was at the Lausanne Forum in Pattaya last year and I noticed that Ì¢‰âÂèÏHolistic MissionÌ¢‰â‰㢠was one of the 31 special Issue Groups.Read more…
There are a number of theological themes that must be kept in mind as we explore the Christian response to humanitarian crises.Read more…
One of the most destructive, yet least understood mindsets affecting evangelical Christianity generally, and evangelical missions in particular, has been Gnostic dualism.Read more…
The students are clamoring and the professor is holed up in his office. They want answers and he cannot hold them back for long.Read more…
John Edmiston answers questions about this newly developed course for Fuller Theological Seminary’s School of Intercultural Studies.Read more…