Some of the discussions about the Prosperity Gospel have touched on the connection of this to witchhunts, but this is an issue that needs to be taken a lot more seriously by Christians generally. I recommend that anyone concerned withRead more…
Partnership and relationship in Africa
Partnership and relationship in Africa In recent mission related work with organizations and churches from Northern Europe partnership takes on meaning primarily from a wish to create frameworks for transparent and effective cooperation with the expressed intention to generate mutuality.Read more…
The insignificance of Youth Ministry in sub-saharan Africa
The title if read at first value can be misleading and even question the intention. The intention is provocation which would lead to critique and question the authenticity of the Church in the region when it comes to Youth Ministry.Read more…
That All May hear
1) The paper is well researched and technical. It clearly gives a picture of the nature of evangelism in both oral and print methods. 2) The paper made a case for oral communication. In the western world where print strategiesRead more…
The Wealth of the Poor: Women and the Savings Movement in Africa
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Stephan Bauman, Wendy Wellman and Megan Laughlin as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Wealth, Poverty and Power: Effectively Responding throughRead more…
The Wealth of the Poor: Women and the Savings Movement in Africa
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Stephan Bauman, Wendy Wellman and Megan Laughlin as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Wealth, Poverty and Power: Effectively Responding throughRead more…
Short-term or long-term mission to Africa?
More and more of ’mission’ activities seem to work in favour of providing young (and older) people with short-term exposure. But short-termers can cheapen the mission task. We don’t have short-term pastors, we don’t have short-term Bible college lecturers, andRead more…
Radio Series -children & youth -Children at risk 1
In this episode of the radio series “Down to Earth” we focus on “children at risk”. Using the radio networks in Africa, we as a number of partner ministries engage leaders into the Global Conversation through radio. Please listen toRead more…
Ducking Missionary Conflict – in Africa and beyond
This article first appeared in the July 2009 issue of Evangelical Missions Quarterly (EMQ). Inter-personal conflicts frequently trouble missionary endeavours. Solutions advocated often emphasise the importance of missionary relationships. Without discrediting those ‘solutions’, I want to ask whether Western missionRead more…
Radio Series – Oral Communicators 4 – Promo
This is the 30-second promo for the fourth episode I produced on Oral Communicators. I also produced four episodes on another topic. See Down To Earth for other series on other topics. The audio of the full episode and aRead more…