Missionary, Save Thyself!

Missionary, Save Thyself!

While serving with a Christian humanitarian organization in South Sudan, I worked with a Dinka man named Abijek who lived in a nearby village. He was employed by the organization to keep an eye on the goings-on in and around the compound where our team was based, which was comprised of little more than a flimsy straw fence surrounding the camping tents where we slept, four or five mud huts known as tukuls, and two white canvas storage tents used to store program supplies.

Social Justice 3 – Is Integral Mission as Integral as We Want? Is Social Justice as Just as We Think?

Social Justice 3 – Is Integral Mission as Integral as We Want? Is Social Justice as Just as We Think?

The Lausanne Movement describes integral mission as a style of mission that recognizes “no biblical dichotomy between evangelistic and social responsibility.” Putting this concept into the form of an action statement, we might say that integral mission is “integrating the proclamation of the gospel and social action.”