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As the church has moved south and east, the face of Christianity has changed.[1] If Western Christians want to work towards fulfilling...

Upon arriving in South Asia, I began to embrace the challenging task of driving on a different side of the road with exponentially more...

Once while I was living in Uganda, I watched my Bible college students destroy an old termite mound. It looked to me just like a pile of...

Inviting international friends to Thanksgiving is one of the best cross-cultural missions opportunities available to American Christians....

The one-sided reality of failed cross-cultural partnerships may lead to the following errors.

One of the great joys of being a missions leader is getting to travel and see the work of God in the least-reached places of the world....

A young man from a West African country asked me, “How can I be a missionary? Missionaries do not come from my place.” The only...

Let me tell you a little about Joe. Joe was a business student at a university in the U.S. He spent one semester studying abroad in an...

Is Your Church Ready? Care team, what do you do when one of your church’s global workers reaches out and asks for help? What if your...

Immigration and migration represent a Great Commission opportunity for the church. Migration is not a new phenomenon. A casual reading of...

We all possess a unique worldview that shapes how we perceive and understand the world around us. Scripture challenges all of our...

I have often said that if I could give a million dollars towards global missions, it would dedicate it to figuring out who will flourish...

Here are three reasons that we must be committed to language learning and disciple-making in the language of the heart.

Christianity continues to blossom in the Global South.[1] Our missions strategies and methodologies, while remaining unyieldingly planted...

As we come alongside brothers and sisters around the world to engage in the missionary task, we need new terms and categories to describe...

We should teach our future missionaries the principles of multiplicative discipleship no matter which church model they encounter.

Discipleship 101: Pray, read your Bible, go to church, participate in cross-cultural training . . . Wait, what? Isn’t that the kind of...

I love the enthusiasm I encounter among aspiring missionaries. It drips from them like water from your hands when there are no paper...

Fourth Church is situated in a midsize city in the midwest. Their city has seen a lot of growth the last few years as people have moved...

Father, when first I set sail on this life in another land, I believed your promise, that for every house brother sister father mother...