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MissionsPlex Social Networking Site Launched
Kingdom Networks has just launched a free social networking site called MissionsPlex. The site describes itself as a free social network focused on completing the Great Commission. Its functionality seems to be similar to that of other popular social networking sites. Member can have their own pages and blogs. They can chat, create groups, upload [...]
Mzungu! Mzungu!: an appeal for vulnerable western missionaries to Africa
Becoming the centre of attention to groups of children shouting “Mzungu, Mzungu” and “how are you” is a common experience for White visitors to sub-Saharan Africa.1 “Children do this because they are happy to see you” local people have explained to me. Locals seem to see nothing wrong in this practice, blissfully unaware of how [...]
Vulnerable Mission: You Mean What?
“You mean what?” I asked over breakfast, as Jim Harries explained the principles of Vulnerable Mission. “I agree with the principle of local language, but why should Western missionaries avoid using outside money to sustain ministry activities?”
As a mission leader and now a professor of leadership, I thought to myself, how will Vulnerable Mission ever [...]
Invulnerable Mission: a Confession
St Patrick wrote his ‘Confession’ and right at the start I need to declare that what you are reading is my confession and, to some extent, my testimony. You see, I was a missionary in Sri Lanka and while I was contextual, holistic, evangelical, co-operative, fairly inclusive, living in the local church ministers’ accommodation and [...]
Vulnerable Mission: Radical Fringe or Common Practice?
While visiting a number of mission agencies, training centers, and friends with Jim Harries last year in the Colorado Springs and Chicago areas, I had the privilege of observing the first impressions of a broad spectrum of mission practitioners and thinkers when the “vulnerable mission” concept was presented to them. Though not many explicitly said [...]
Deep, Diverse, Difficult: the Long Slow Task of Vulnerable Mission
Introducing the Alliance for Vulnerable Mission
The world has changed, and the world of mission is about to change. Small groups of people will meet in January of 2009 to chart one possible future of world mission. Rather than focus on mission statistics, or dream dreams of glorious success and strength and power, this group will [...]
Vulnerable Mission Supports the Church in Africa, and Beyond
Offering resources to a two-thirds world community or church can be putting them into a trap. Resources may be impossible to refuse! Once the existence of an offer is known, people can oblige their leader to accept it on their behalf, even if receipt of it will be contrary to the community’s actual interests. (It [...]
Participate in the WEA JIMI Information Survey
Dear Mission Colleagues and Friends
I hope that you do not mind me sending this e-mail. As chairman and working group leader of the Joint Information Management Initiative (JIMI) Taskforce of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission (WEA MC), we would appreciate if you (or somebody in your organisation) could set aside about 10 minutes to [...]
TOM-SKYPE in China IS being monitored
A group of Canadian human rights activists and computer security researchers have discovered that Tom-Skype (the Chinese version of Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless operator and eBay, the owner of Skype) is being monitored, as the system is tracking text messages.
While Skype itself is secure, messages between users of Tom-Skype and Skype [...]
Finding kindred souls
So you’ve figured the importance of not being distracted and you can articulate your purpose. But you’re wondering about this whole blogging thing, and you think that maybe that’s a bit too much for you and where you’re at. Or maybe you want it to be a little quieter—not so public. The other option that [...]
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