Saudi man kills daughter for converting to Christianity

A Saudi man working with the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice recently killed his daughter for converting to Christianity. The death of the girl sent shockwaves and websites where the victim used to write with various nick names have allocated special space to mourn her, while some others closed temporarily in
protest. [...]

How new missionaries choose their country of service: do we need a change?

Asking future missionaries to wait and receive their “calling” to the country their Agency and Church assign.

Every Part Doing its Work

“The redemptive genius of God is seen not so much in that He gathers His Church on Sunday but that He scatters it on Monday.”
– Dr. David Moore drawing from Jerry Cook.

Last week I had the privilege of being the guest lecturer in a doctoral class in a local seminary. I [...]

Learning from failure

Today Steve Addison wrote about our planning for failure. I remember many years back giving a talk–which was not well received at all, I have to admit–about “planning for failure.” Many of the Americans in the audience felt that I did not have enough faith and power, but it was probably my own failure–to communicate–that [...]

Stages of Completeness

If you live in my neck of the woods - Southeast Asia - for long enough, you
might find your favorite night market, and your favorite supplier of, say, char
kuay teow (a lovely dish consisting of noodles, seafood, Chinese sausage, and
veggies). So, let’s say you get to the night market late one night, and your
favorite supplier–gasp!–isn’t [...]

Stages of Reachedness

Those in the missions movement often talk about “finishing the task.” Others are generally opposed to this concept. But probably, when we get down to definitions, we would both agree that the task of missions can be finished. It’s all in what we mean by that.
Back in October 1996, Joe Haley wrote an excellent article [...]

The State of the Gospel

In September, Jason Mandryk (editor of Operation World) and I had the unique opportunity of sharing the current state of world evangelization with the over 400 delegates attending the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering in Malaysia.
We had worked together to develop the presentation that Jason made on Wednesday night. It was wonderfully received, leading into a [...]