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Webinar: Leading a Comms Team Without Burning Them Out (or Yourself)

Webinar: Leading a Comms Team Without Burning Them Out (or Yourself)

Team health and burnout are the quiet crisis in under-resourced nonprofit comms shops. Everyone’s thinking this, and no one’s saying ...
Book cover of 'Ordered to Love' by Alex Kocman with white and green design.

Ordered to Love: Recovering the Order of Affections from the Home to the Ends of the Earth 

Many question how our love for our own—our families, churches, and nation—can overflow in love for the nations as Scripture indicates it should ...
Book cover for 'I Never Signed Up for This' by Ann Bowman.

I Never Signed Up for This: One Mother’s Journey to Surrender Her Children to Their Calling    

I Never Signed Up for This by Ann Bowman tells the story of a mother who was asked by God to ...
Book cover for 'Serving Jesus without Burning Out' by D. Scott Hildreth and Steven A. McKinion.

Serving Jesus without Burning Out: Faithful Ministry in the Long Haul    

Ministry in any context is stressful, no matter if it is the local church, the mission field, a mission agency, ...
Book cover for 'Suffering and Persecution' with abstract figures in vibrant colors.

Rethinking Church in the 21st Century: Suffering and Persecution    

In Rethinking Church in the 21st Century: Suffering and Persecution, volume editor Myrto Theocharous introduces a vast array of topics ...
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Being Among the Lost: Discipleship Must Move Back into the World of the Unreached

By Manuel Becker | What if the church’s greatest obstacle to mission is church life itself? This article introduces “Church-Gravity ...
Mission Nexus training session with diverse participants in a community setting.

Discipling Leaders Across Cultures: A Four-Dimension Framework and How to Apply It

By Joseph W. Handley Jr. and Mary Jo Wilson | Handley and Wilson present a framework of four overlapping dimensions ...
Elderly couple sharing a moment outdoors, engaging in conversation.

Obstacles to Forgiveness Among Turks

By José L. Cruz Parada | Forgiveness is a major topic in Christianity yet largely ignored in Turkish culture. This ...
Group of women in colorful traditional clothing shopping at a market.

Remember the Women: The Need to Recognize Gender Dynamics in Church Planting Movement Strategies

By Eliza Kettering | Many church planting strategies suggest the importance of the familial web of relationships for the spread ...
Book cover of Sacred Courage by Betsy Kirk about biblical fear and anxiety.

Sacred Courage. Thinking Biblically About Fear and Anxiety    

Betsy Kirk writes insightfully and poignantly about fear from her childhood experiences, parenting challenges, and missionary service. Although she was ...
Book cover of Slow Theology with colorful abstract design and white circles.

Slow Theology: Eight Practices for Resilient Faith in a Turbulent World (A Guide to Deep Faith in Our Busy Modern Lives)

In this book A. J. Swoboda and Nijay Gupta offer a practical theology guide for building resilient faith through Christian discipleship ...
Book cover for 'Leadership and Self-Perception' by The Arbinger Institute.

Leadership and Self-Deception: The Secret to Transforming Relationships and Unleashing Results     

With almost 3 million copies sold worldwide, this book is a new edition of a previously published work which ranks ...
Cover of "Godly Grit" by Kyle Farran, focusing on resilience and leadership.

Godly Grit: Unshakable Resilience and Grit for Life and Leadership    

Kyle Farran has served for two decades in leadership in fourteen countries across Africa and Europe. He has opened an ...
Eurasian women and children in colorful traditional costumes, standing against a vibrant orange back.

A New Way to Pray as We Remember the Unreached

This month, the global Church gathers to remember the over three billion people with little to no access to the ...
Webinar: Beyond Preparation: Training Families and Singles to Flourish

Webinar: Beyond Preparation: Training Families and Singles to Flourish

Families and singles often face unique pressures that traditional training overlooks. This webinar addresses those gaps by offering targeted tools, ...
Sexual Sin in Missions: A Better Way Forward for Agencies

Sexual Sin in Missions: A Better Way Forward for Agencies

In this episode of the The Mission Matters Podcast, Matthew Ellison and Ted Esler sit down with Dennis Martin (of ...
Webinar: Building a Shared Foundation for Cross Cultural Workers

Webinar: Building a Shared Foundation for Cross Cultural Workers

A paradigm shift has begun! We are moving away from a responsive model of care and development towards a more ...
Hybrid congregation with digital and physical worship elements.

The Hybrid Congregation: A Practical Theology of Worship for an Online Era    

The book focuses on the intersection of church music and online communication, by asking the central question: “what does the church ...
International service wisdom from 10 women missionaries.

Before You Go: Wisdom from 10 Women Who Served Internationally  

Obedience to God’s call for international missionary service is daunting and complex. Evangelism and discipleship across cultural, religious, and linguistic ...
Community gathering in rural village for mission stories and discipleship.

Tell Everyone: SIM Niger Stories (1924-2024) 

Africans frequently use stories to construct oral histories of their people or tradition. Older generations pass on family names, religious ...