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Integrated Mission: Recovering a Christian Spirituality for Evangelical Integral Transformation
Mission and spirituality must be integrated. In her book, Integrated Mission, Sarah Nicholl applies her PhD in practical theology from ...
The Cost of Disciple Making in Muslim Contexts: Redeeming the Lost through Sacrificial Mission
By J Wu | Drawing on biblical theology, missiological reflection, and field experience, this article explores the suffering and persecution ...
Walking Toward Wholeness: Solvitur Ambulando and the Practice of Pilgrimage
By Greg W. Burch | Stressful and traumatic encounters in mission, humanitarian and justice contexts are on the rise. Pilgrimages ...
Living the Adventure God Intended: Faithfulness, Dependence, and Perseverance in Cross-Cultural Ministry
By Russell Matthews | Most of us enter ministry expecting an adventure. And it is an adventure—just not always the ...
Global Member Care Volume 3: Stories and Strategies for Staying the Course
Member care pioneers and veterans, Drs. Kelly and Michèle Lewis O’Donnell have added to their Global Member Care series with ...
Leading in a World of Relentless Activity
By Kirk J. Franklin | Relentless activity can lead mission leaders to equate achievement with faithfulness. Historical influences such as ...
Spirituality and the Pragmatism Paradox
By Jackson Strider | What is pragmatism? And how does it detract from our spirituality? The author of this article ...
Nurturing the Spirit: The Essential Role of Spirituality in Global Mission
By Joseph W. Handley, Jr. and Janelle Stoops | Mission flourishes not through greater activity but through deeper communion with ...
Ministering from Weakness: Embracing the De-centering
By Yong Choi | Western missionaries facing social, political, bodily, and spiritual “de-centering” should not deny or overanalyze their loss ...
In the Time of Darkness, a Little Lamp
By Premasis Satman | An associate pastor in Hyderabad tells the story of his own COVID-19 lockdown: sealed in his ...
Editorial – Spirituality in Missions
By Evelyn Hibbert | Although cross-cultural missions has many challenges, we are not alone. Its source and power is God ...
Deep and Wide: A Look Back at the 2026 Mission Leaders Conference
From September 23–25, 1,066 mission leaders, pastors, practitioners, and ministry professionals gathered in Orlando, Florida, for DEEP: Shaping Global Disciples, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Obstacles to Forgiveness Among Turks
By José L. Cruz Parada | Forgiveness is a major topic in Christianity yet largely ignored in Turkish culture. This ...
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 ...
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 ...
