I’d like to start a conversation around the theme of evaluating faithfulness. The tension I’d like us to focus on (at least to start with) is the tension between the needs of donors and implementers in areas that require innovation. Read more…
Partnership and Money. A study and exercise (E&S)
My friend and brother Paul Davies (All Nations-UK) was several years in Argentina. Paul in 2002 helped to us about Partnership and Money and relationship with several Churches different countries. I am sharing his presentation. Pablo Davies fue misionero junto con su esposa Wilma en Argentina.Read more…
Full Online Copy of “Well Connected” Available
The full text of Phill Butler’s comprehensive Partnership “How-To” book, Well Connected, is now available online courtesy of Google Books. One Amazon reviewer writes, “A vital book on a vital subject – how to actually co-operate across organizational or denominationalRead more…
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Theology of Partnership
I’d like to start a conversation around the theme of theology of partnership. I will roughly define “theologizing” as the savoring recognition of the presence and intention of God at a given time/context. I will define “partnership” here simply asRead more…
I love the “Beauty of Partnership” Study Guide
Last month, Werner Mischke passed to me a copy of his new yet-to-be-published book, “The Beauty of Partnership Study Guide: Standard Edition.” It’ll be published by MissionOne directly, and it’s a tribute to several innovative and relevant focal points. IRead more…
Who says “No” to “Mission Trips”?
Here is a staggering statistic that I came across recently. Robert Wuthnow, the eminent sociologist of religion at Princeton University has estimated that up to 1.6 million American Christians take part in overseas “mission trips” each year, with churches spendingRead more…
The Heart Of The Gospel
A response to Samuel Escobar’s ’Migration & Ethnic Conflict’ I first read Samuel Escobar’s timely article aboard a flight from Toronto, Ontario, bound for Edmonton, Alberta. Flying across Canada, a nation touted for its ’vigorous immigration policy’ and official MulticulturalismRead more…
The Indispensable Key to the Unfinished Task
Ethnê is the Greek word Jesus used for “nation”—a word which means tribe, ethnic group or people. Our world today has 6.4 billion individuals living in 234 geo-political nations but over 16,000 ethnê, or people groups, by country. Of thoseRead more…
On-the-Grounders Missing Media-Generated Inquirers
The number of people online and exploring faith issues is staggering. So also those responding to broadcast/radio/satellite and replying via mobile phone! I won’t attempt to cite statistics here, but what a friend of mine said is most assuredly true:Read more…