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Venture Center
…One of the specific ways Frontier Ventures is seeking to catalyze breakthrough is by creating a collaborative environment that encourages creativity in several key areas of mission activity—in prayer, research and strategy, innovation, media, mobilization, training and education. This campus, originally purchased for the U.S. Center for World Mission, is…
Perspectives Global
…The Perspectives Global network has grown steadily over the last twelve years. Today there are well-established autonomous national study programs on every continent, in eleven countries. There are ten more countries in various stages of development. Dozens of other countries are eager to start. Translations of Perspectives on the World…
Catalyzing Kingdom Breakthrough
…When I first came to the Pasadena community from Thailand nearly three years ago, I heard two specific words in my heart: “revitalization” and “intercession.” I believed the Lord was planning a renewal of vision and purpose for our community, though I didn’t understand what this meant in particular. I…
Honor and Shame Beyond the Gospel
…Back in 1999, I was sharing with a fellow missionary my struggles in communicating the gospel with Muslims. His offhand comment completely changed my world: “That’s because Arabs live in a shame-based culture.” His sentence stunned me. For twenty years I had ministered to Arabs, yet never once heard the…
Why has the Church Lost “Face”?
…Bartimaeus. H/S should not “SCARE” people; it is a natural aspect of all human cultures, and especially “collectivistic” societies. Collectivism is woven into the fabric of God’s mission in the world. Christ’s church represents God’s human family, consisting of all nations. God made humanity for the sake of His glory.…
Good News! God Honors Us By Entering Our Story
…ENTERING YOUR STORY I brought some candy with me for the national staff of an NGO in Central Asia. They thanked me of course, to which I replied, “It was nothing.” And really it was a very little gift, but one elderly man made the point, “But you thought about…
A Challenge for the Thai Church
…Introduction Thailand is a hierarchical society. Understanding this simple idea is key to understanding Thai behavior, which is predicated on knowing who is in a senior or junior role, and the behavior that is appropriate to each. Missionary work in a Thai context must come to grips with the hierarchic…
Bridging Buddhist Christian Worldviews
…We have a dream that soon we will see an historic movement of Theravada Buddhists coming to know Christ as Savior. Is this also your dream and your heart’s desire? What’s hindering such a movement and limiting response from Buddhists despite decades of effort? Some say that working among Buddhists…
Longing for the Golden City
…The author of this article would like to clarify that this work is C4, and all believers call themselves "Christians" or "Children of God." There have been tremendous evangelistic breakthroughs among animistic Tribals, Chinese, nominal Christians, Hindus, and now even Muslims, but there have been very few breakthroughs among the…
Tough Choices: Without a Bible but With a Church, or Without a Church but With a Bible?
…I have a friend from high school who worked in SIL’s literacy program in South America. He had the privilege helping many among the people group to which he was assigned to develop a deepening understanding of the Bible and seeing that understanding impact the lives of many people. But…
Deconstruct and Recalibrate
…When I first began my missionary journey in Asia, I was taught Thai Christian vocabulary and was told it would enable me to do ministry in Thailand. I went to church every Sunday as part of my language learning, and built relationships with many wonderful Thai Christians. Some Sundays, older…
The Fingerprints of God in Buddhism
…Typically Christians attempt to understand Buddhism1 by trying to compare it with biblical doctrine. We quickly come to the conclusion that Buddhism is quite different from Christian beliefs. We believe in God, Buddhists do not. We believe in a savior, they have to rely on self-effort. This line of reasoning…
…This blog post explains how the professions of strategic intelligence analysis and risk management apply directly to missions strategy, specifically as they relate to decisions to deploy, relocate, or evacuate Western Christian Expatriates (WCEs) during security crises. Its primary intended audience is executives and field leaders in both evangelical mission…
Next Steps in Ethnodoxology
…Now that you know more about the imortant role of ethnodoxology in cross-cultural ministry--especially as it relates to frontier missions--why not begin exploring more? What follows are a number of resources, tools and traiing opportunites we have collected to get you started. Community International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE)…
Creating Local Arts Together
…CASE ONE: In northwestern DR Congo, Mono Christians are making a fundamental change in how they communicate with God. Instead of using only international and regional artistic genres in their gatherings, they have integrated local arts. This movement is spreading from the hub of Bili to many other villages, and…
Culturally Appropriate Music
…Editor's Note: Selected portions of this essay have been adapted from Chapter 28 in Worship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxology Handbook (hereafter Ethnodoxology Handbook) and from my chapter, “Encounters: What Happens to Music When People Meet,” in Music in the Life of the African Church, eds. Roberta R.…
Indigenous Proverbs
…As the heavy metal gate to his home slowly creaks open, “Ali” approaches and peeks through a small crack between the gate and the compound wall to see who’s entering. Suddenly he bursts through the gate like a broken dam spilling out pent-up water.1 “You have come back! I knew…
Momentum Through the Hurdles: The CPM Continuum
…Recently I trained a group of colleagues laboring faithfully in one of the harshest areas on earth. Yet after years of witness, the results have only been isolated individual disciples. Virtually all the disciples are first generation, that is, they have been led to faith by the foreigners. Progress toward…
Prayer
…Very few people think that we are now in a war greater than World War II, and greater than any imaginable nuclear World War III. Or that Satan is a much worse enemy than Communism or militant Islam. Or that the conflict is not restricted to any one global theater,…
Recovering the Kingdom
…What was so unique about the message and vision of Jesus? And is it possible that after 2,000 years we still don’t get it? Jesus came preaching about the kingdom. It was a radical message because he was preaching about God’s kingdom, not the Jewish kingdom. He was crucified for…