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Our aim is to help you keep dignity and sustainability at the center of your mission work. Whether it’s through practical tips or unpacking deeper transformative work, these articles help you do just that.
Part 2: How Does Jesus’ Synagogue & Mountainside Talk Affect Missions?
There seems to be a discrepancy between how Jesus prepared His disciples for missions and the way the West prepares modern day disciples for missions.
Habitude 1: Believe Jesus is Worthwhile Based on His Own Merit
We doubt Jesus is enough based on His own merit . . . It’s like we need to win people to something else to win them to Jesus.
Part 1 – I Welcomed The Refugees Because . . .
Jesus said go and make disciples of the nations . . . what if the nations come to you?
What Are “DAY 1 affects DAY 100 Habitudes”?
What cross-cultural Christian workers think, say, and do on Day 1 will either empower or disempower local people to be all they can be for God in…
Healthy Church vs. Unhealthy Church Posted by Five Stones Global
This table below is adapted from Glenn Penner by Ronnie & Wouter in their article “Dependency.”
Re-Jesus Missions Part 1: Has Western Christianity Stolen our Ability to Reflect Jesus’ Way of Missions?
How close or how far are we from Jesus’ pattern of doing global missions — making disciples of the nations?
Overcoming Unhealthy Dependency
Any kind of reliance that leaves a person completely dependent on others is dangerous. It is unhealthy. It takes away the belief that one can be…
Could Inspiring More “We Did It” Stories Help Break The Dependency Mindset?
As Valery shared about Haitian churches saying, “We did it” and “the sense of pride and sense of ownership” that pastors and their congregations…
Orphans and Widows Part 3: Widows and Orphans: Rethinking Orphan Care
In past years, residential care has been the Western answer to the orphan crisis in lower income countries. Presently, researchers and practitioners…
The Lowest Ebb
If we take a cold hard look at the situation Christians are facing in the 21st Century, not only is the kingdom of God hidden from view, but churches…
The Evangelical Recession and the Mission Task
We live in an age in which a trendy technological device that you bought today could be on its way out tomorrow. In other words, nothing is…
Orphans and Widows Part 2: Assumptions about Orphanages in Mission
If we don’t look at what is trendy and not working, how will we implement a strategy that hopefully will be effective?
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