The Second Generation: A New Frontier in Diaspora

Most Diaspora ministries are focused on host nation Christians reaching immigrants in their respective countries. They have adopted an ethnic specific approaches or the retired missionaries who worked on those regions of the world where the immigrants come from areRead more…

A Hope and a Future for Young People…and the Church!

What follows are a few thoughts on church growth, the place of young people and my denomination.  (If you belong to another denomination you may end up agreeing with some of the challenges…)  It links in with several conversations onRead more…

In Quest of Asian Models of Youth Ministry

The age group defined as “youth” in Asia is often different than the one defined in western countries. In my country, Indonesia, for example, people aged 30 often still live with their parents as long as they’re not married. EvenRead more…

Infant Mortality

Originally posted at http://www.justinlong.org/2010/07/infant-mortality/ During the early years of the church, one of the factors contributing to its survival was charity. Rodney Stark in “Cities of God: the real story of how Christianity became an urban movement and conquered Rome”Read more…

Reaching 20s- 30s, through Social Networking

I have been doing a bit of research on mentoring between the young and older generation and good reasons for transferring these old traditional values, and visa versa See: http://ezinearticles.com/?Mentoring-The-Younger-Generation—Reasons-To-Transfer-Old-Values&id=1657120 On what applications there are on online mentoring , andRead more…

Missing Generation – reaching 20s- 30s

20-30 Vision   Sarah is a 29 year old marketing analyst living in East London. She attends a local church where she is involved in the youth work and a midweek home group. She is bright, attractive, outgoing and single.Read more…

HIV/AIDS prevention and the Church (in Africa)

It is clear that HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest development challenges for Africa, if not for the world at large. And it should therefore also be one of the greatest concerns for the Church, because the pandemic does notRead more…