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The following is adapted from Your Focus on the World by Catalyst Services. This book includes guidelines on building church-to-church...

A little over a year ago, my family and I transitioned churches. This was not the first time either my wife or I had sought a new church...

Make the Most of Your Foreign Assignment Click here for part one of this article series. Engage in Marketplace Ministry If God has led...

Being a bi-cultural Christ-follower means being able to comfortably move in and out of cultures, sometimes even a variety of cultures....

If you stepped into my office, you could make two observations about me—I love to travel, and I love to read. I have collected many...

Parents are God’s kind provision to infants and children who have no concept of personal safety and cannot provide for their own basic...

The missionary task requires understandable communication of the gospel. Depending on the context and the complexity of the language...

During my first missionary term in South Asia, I relished the opportunity to dive deep into the culture and begin learning the local...

In part 1, we went through some mistakes missionaries often make with language learning. Now let’s look at the missionaries who succeed...

Many missionaries start out motivated to learn and engage in the new language and culture around them. Unfortunately, those aspirations...

In today’s connected world, churches, missions organizations, and missionaries work with partners from nations around the globe. Some of...

Imagine you’re sitting in a coffee shop reading your Bible. Each time you take a sip of your coffee, you notice a stranger staring at...

In a previous blog post, I defined cross-cultural missional partnership as a kingdom-oriented relationship of culturally diverse groups...

Your palms are a bit clammy. Your heart is racing. Your eyes dart to and fro, searching the area for something or someone familiar. You...

One of the most exciting moments for church missions leaders is when someone in the body expresses a call from God to serve...

You don’t have to be an expert to share the hope of the gospel with someone who is much different than you.

Ethnographic research is a tremendous way to better understand how God is at work in the life of a person or a community.

Ethnographic research can be done by anyone and can lead to a more effective and efficient ministry.

Those who plan to work overseas need to have a learner’s attitude and make changes in how they live in preparation for life abroad.

When we are a part of Christ’s legacy, our lives are intertwined with his glory because we are in him.