Tag: missions

The Missions Strategy Shift We Need to Make in 2021

Are we willing to step out of the limelight and consider a missions strategy shift?

When You Want to Be a Missionary but Your Church Won’t Send You

5 pieces of advice for when you feel called to missions but your church is not sending missionaries.

How the Apostle Paul Thought About Church Growth

Explore 5 church growth essentials from the apostle Paul's first missionary journey, offering key insights for modern churches.

What Is the Heart Posture for Missions?

Unpacking what we mean when we say, God can use me right where I am, and exploring the heart posture for missions.

How Crossover Global Plants Churches Among Unreached People Groups

This article originally appeared on the Lausanne Movement website and is republished here with permission from the Lausanne Movement. In this interview, Bill Jones, Joo Mordomo and Ken Katayama share their experiences leading Crossover Global, an organization that has planted well over 2,000 churches among unreached people groups and hopes to plant 4,000 more by […]

Canceled Mission Trips Give Us an Opportunity for Self-Reflection

With much of the world in various stages of lockdown, short-term mission trips have become one of the first summer casualties. Planes are grounded. Airports are quiet. And the folks who print all those matching mission trip T-shirts are wondering when business will pick up again. But I, for one, am grateful someone hit the […]

Helping Third Culture Kids Adjust to Reentry

Third culture kid teens are resilient, resourceful, clever, creative and flexible. For their entire lives they have not only practiced but also excelled at adapting to new cultural situations and learning new ways of being and of doing. This year in particular they have been challenged to draw upon these strengths in new and important ways as the world continues to navigate the ambiguity and adjustments of new protocol and procedures in all arenaswork, academic, social and commerce. Understanding third culture kids reentry adjustment is crucial for this demographic.

What if Your Mission Trip Is Canceled?

If you, or your church, had plans for a mission trip this summer, you know its not happening. Travel fears and restrictions, global quarantine and the financial strain caused by COVID-19 have created a stay-at-home summer. No doubt, you are disappointed, and I can assure you that those on the field are too. The missionaries […]