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Helping Missionary Kids Thrive on Home Assignment
…For most of us, missionary kids are an anomaly of life. They come to our churches for a year or a single Sunday while their parents are on home assignment. And we hardly get to know them before they leave again for the mission field. But on the Global…
Obedience to God’s Word Overcomes Systemic Prejudice
…The movement with which we are connected is bringing transformation—not just to the lives of families and individuals, but also to deeply rooted social problems including systemic prejudice. The early church celebrated the Lord’s Supper: “They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord’s…
Celebrating the Gift of George Patterson
…The contribution of George Patterson is one reason why we keep finding ourselves surprised by the content of the Perspectives course. Because of George’s writing and teaching, long before CPM or DMM were named as recognized approaches, the Perspectives course had been presenting the basic ideas of multiplying movements of…
14 Steps of Mobilization to Reach the Unreached!
…How do we get there from here? How do we mobilize the Body of Christ to see a church established in every people group? George Patterson of Cultural Adaptation Training suggests the following steps, working backwards from final result to first step— 14 Links of Mobilization: To disciple all peoples,…
Cultural Difference and the Spread of the Gospel
…We finished the 2022 Ralph D. Winter Lectureship— held in person at Biola University and virtually. In the July–August 2021 issue of MF, I mentioned the topic of this was going to be Homogenous Unit Principle (HUP). Simply stated, it is that people like to become Christians with others who…
Lifting, Pushing, Squeezing and Blending The Dynamics of Ethnicity and Globalization
…An emphasis on “people groups” has become a common way to map our mission to the world. It was not always so. When Donald McGavran emerged from caste-ridden India in the 1960s, evangelicals were confronted anew with the strategic role of social and cultural boundaries in world evangelization. The persistent…
Apostolic Imagination: Recovering a Biblical Vision for Mission
…David J. Bosch noted the “Christian mission—at least as it has traditionally been interpreted and performed—is under attack not only from without but also from within its own ranks.” The present “crisis” was just one of many throughout Church history that created a need for a new paradigm of mission.1…
God’s Mission Is a Battle for Hearts and Minds
…They are all around us, as pervasive as the air we breathe. They bombard us relentlessly day and night from every direction seeking to take us captive. The unaware are helpless to avoid their grasp. They are the lies, evil philosophies and poisonous worldviews that seek to tear our hearts…
How People Group Information Impacted a Mission Agency
…The world is choking on data, most of which has no eternal impact. Today, we take data for granted. Forty years ago, it was a different story. One Bethany leader said, as he made his way to the mission field in 1981: "As a young missionary with Bethany International, I…
Urbanization and Measuring the Remaining Task
… For a very long time, many missiologists have tended to measure “progress in the Great Commission” (however that was defined) to some extent in the context of people groups, and how they are reached, evangelized and/or Christianized. This thread has been pushed forward by the work of David…
Why South Asia People Group Data Looks So Different
…South Asia people groups are not ethnolinguistic People group lists historically have used two factors to identify each people group: language spoken and ethnicity, where “ethnicity” is defined broadly. Such lists may be referred to as ethno-linguistic because both factors were used to form the lists. However, in practice, language…
People Group Lists and the Challenge of Growing Complexity
…A Brief History of Global People Group Lists No comprehensive, global list of people groups existed when Dr. Ralph Winter gave his landmark presentation at Lausanne ’74. Partial lists began to be developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since then, three global people group lists have emerged: Center…
Wordly Collective: Building a Collaborative Ecosystem for Minority Language Community Flourishing
…New ways forward in mission often emerge by making connections between people who are able to collaborate together to address a challenge. In other words, relationships are at the heart of social innovation in mission. This rings particularly true when it comes to serving and working among minority language communities…
Is This China’s Final Solution for the Uyghurs?
…Gulbahar Haitiwaji (not her real name) was a Uyghur exile in France who returned to China to sign important papers. Chinese government officials had a photo of her daughter attending a Uyghur cultural event in France where the Uyghur flag was displayed. For this reason, Mrs. Haitiwaji was regarded as…
Mission Co-Dependency: Its Symptoms, Long- Term Effects and Prevention
…Editor’s Note: The following article comes from the perspective of those who believe in foreign funding of indigenous mission work. The article provides some helpful insight into the many problems that can arise from foreign funding as well as some potential solutions. The other authors in this issue would generally…
Movement Servants Needed!
…What is the most strategic role you can imagine for a Jesus follower in the Western world who wants to see all peoples reached with the gospel as soon as possible? Three hundred years ago, at the beginning of the modern Protestant missions movement,1 most missionaries were sent from Europe…
The Surprising Relevance of the Three-Self Formula
…Editor’s Note: Henry Venn’s father, John Venn, was rector of Clapham parish and pastor to William Wilberforce and others who made up the famous group later called the “Clapham Sect.” Henry’s grandfather, also named Henry Venn was the “spiritual father” of the Clapham Sect. The Three-Self Formula is much better…
What Have You Brought For Us?
…The Dominican Republic The cattle truck turned off the highway onto a dirt road that wound through acres and acres of sugarcane. Two more cattle trucks followed, each one loaded with one to two dozen eager Americans. I was one of them. We were headed to yet another remote Dominican…
“Insider” Movements: How Do You Know if You Have One?
…In Monty Python and the Holy Grail King Arthur approaches a French castle to explain his quest for the Grail and is told “we’ve already got one.” It’s a humorous scene, and of course, they don’t have the Grail. But then, how would they know if they did? In The…
“Insider” Movements
…Dear Reader, Blessings and welcome to this edition of Mission Frontiers (MF.) In the following set of articles, we are knowingly taking up what continues to be a divisive and controversial topic: insider movements. I say “we”, but as you will see from the articles, I am the author of…