Here’s a global research project that is seeking church-planting teams as a special focus for study. To be included, your team needs to be: * Experienced:  Teams that have been functioning for at least one year. * Missionary: Teams that are working in a culture other than their own, with plans to develop national leadership [...]

TRAIN International offers a workshop called ACCESS (Assisting and Coaching Churches to Effectively Send and Sustain). They have openings on Saturday, July 9 for Columbus, Ohio and on Saturday August 13 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These workshops address…   *** Missions Strategy in the Local Church *** Caring for Missionaries *** Caring for Missionary Kids *** [...]

I am adding this foreword to this article to clarify my stance on Insider Movements.  I am in opposition to Insider Movements that subjugate the Gospel to culture and/or redact culturally offensive material from the Bible.  (There are some other minor issues that I would not personally practice, but these two are primary and are [...]

A friend shared this quote with me.  Thought you would appreciate it. “Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. [...]

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That’s what you get from these sites: https://trainandmultiply.com http://paul-timothy.net/ We’ve mentioned them before in Brigada, but it’s been a while. Allan, one of the guys in our Equipping Dept. at Team Expansion, sent out a note to our staff about them this past week and it reminded me it had been too long since we [...]

Some time ago, Ralph Winter brilliantly identified three eras of modern missions: Era 1: William Carey focused on the coastlands; Era 3: Hudson Taylor focused on the inlands; Era 3: Donald McGavran and Cameron Townsend focused on unreached peoples. With all the fast and furious changes swirling around us today in twenty-first century missions, have [...]

Another Guest Post from David Broodryk.  I spent the last three weeks with David in South Africa.  We discussed many of the topics covered in this post.  David is working hard to develop Disciple-making approaches for a post modern culture. Discovery and the Inductive Approach There are two main approaches to Bible study.  One is [...]

Missing Peoples – Church Planting in the Muslim…

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