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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: EVERYONE TO EVERYWHERE
Posted by Jay Matenga | Oct 10, 2024 | Articles, Featured, News, Reimagining Missions | 0
REIMAGINING MISSIONS: REVIEWING L4
Posted by Rei Lemuel Crizaldo | Oct 7, 2024 | Articles, Featured, News, Reimagining Missions | 0
REIMAGINING MISSIONS: ANTICIPATING L4
Posted by Jay Matenga | Sep 14, 2024 | Articles, Featured, New, Reimagining Missions | 0
REIMAGINING MISSIONS: DISCIPLESHIP IN ASIA
Posted by Chansamone Saiyasak | Sep 4, 2024 | Articles, Featured, New, Reimagining Missions | 0
LEADER’S MISSIONS FORECAST 2023
Posted by Jay Matenga | Dec 20, 2023 | Executive Director Blog, Featured, Future of Missions, New, Reimagining Missions | 0
REIMAGINING MISSIONS: SE AFRICAN RESILIENCE IN CRISIS
by Adriaan Adams | Dec 2, 2024 | Articles, COVID-19 Implications, Featured, News, Reimagining Missions | 0
MC Deputy Leader, Adriaan Adams led a 72-day research trip across Southeast Africa to better understand contextual approaches and responses to crises. In this post we reveal key findings and practical steps to help church and organisational leaders build more resilient communities for God’s glory.
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by Jay Matenga | Oct 10, 2024 | Articles, Featured, News, Reimagining Missions | 0
A group of missions leaders from the Majority World met immediately following Lausanne 4 under the banner of a new movement with the acronym COALA. This essay is MC Executive Director Jay Mātenga’s presentation to that forum, calling for a rethink on the concept of “polycentric missions”.
Read MoreREIMAGINING MISSIONS: REVIEWING L4
by Rei Lemuel Crizaldo | Oct 7, 2024 | Articles, Featured, News, Reimagining Missions | 0
“Let the Church Declare and Display Christ Together” was the theme of the Fourth Lausanne Congress. What seemed to be intended was to fuse declare and display into a universal missiology for us to collaborate together under the control of Lausanne. Rei Lemuel Crizaldo reflects on why this will probably not succeed.
Read MoreREIMAGINING MISSIONS: ANTICIPATING L4
by Jay Matenga | Sep 14, 2024 | Articles, Featured, New, Reimagining Missions | 0
The fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (L4) is about to convene. In anticipation of the event, a group of related organisations gathered to discuss the 25 great commission gaps the Lausanne movement have presented. Executive Director Jay Mātenga represented WEAMC. This is his transcript.
Read MoreREIMAGINING MISSIONS: DISCIPLESHIP IN ASIA
by Chansamone Saiyasak | Sep 4, 2024 | Articles, Featured, New, Reimagining Missions | 0
Christianity in Asia remains disconnected from local cultural expressions so the national evangelical alliances of Asia have identified the need to disciple Christians in ways more suited to the Asian context to ensure the church becomes more locally sustainable and culturally relevant.
Read MoreLEADER’S MISSIONS FORECAST 2023
by Jay Matenga | Dec 20, 2023 | Executive Director Blog, Featured, Future of Missions, New, Reimagining Missions | 0
LEADER’S MISSIONS FORECAST 2023 [60 Minute Read] Dear fellow participants in God’s mission,...
Read MoreREIMAGINING MISSIONS: HONOURING DATA IN MISSIONS
by Chris Maynard | Aug 26, 2023 | Articles, Featured, New, Recent, Reimagining Missions | 0
Missions information and data from quality research is too easily dishonoured in the pushback against the industrialisation of missions and managerial methods. But we do so to the detriment of God’s mission. This essay explains why and encourages us to do better.
Read MoreREIMAGINING MISSIONS: PRAYER DEVOTED
by Jenny Oliphant | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Prayer, Recent, Reimagining Missions | 0
In this essay we recognise our dependency on God as we participate in God’s mission. From her recent involvement with prayer networks, Jenny Oliphant discerns 9 trends that will factor into the future shape of missions in the new era ahead of us.
Read MoreLEADER’S MISSIONS FORECAST 2021
by Jay Matenga | Dec 24, 2021 | COVID-19 Implications, Executive Director Blog, Featured, Future of Missions, News, Recent | 0
Executive Director, Jay Mātenga proposes a missions forecast update using Mary’s “Magnificat” as a framework to reflect missiologically on the year gone and its potential effects on global missions going forward. The global pandemic continues to frustrate and humble the global missions community.
Read MoreMISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: TRENDING IMPLICATIONS
by Paul Bendor-Samuel | May 30, 2021 | COVID-19 Implications, Featured, Future of Missions | 0
COVID-19 is accelerating sweeping changes around the world and world Christianity and evangelical missions is not immune. This post explores how global missions is in a process of realignment with exciting potential for redefining missions as faithful witness.
Read MoreMISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: ASIA IMPLICATIONS
by Claire Chong | Mar 31, 2021 | COVID-19 Implications, Featured, Future of Missions, New, News | 0
In Asia, COVID-19 exposed afresh areas of concern, including issues around resourcing, relevance and theology. We need to see an increased sensitivity toward others that results in more culturally-appropriate biblical theologies and practices, that will bless the nations.
Read MoreMISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: RESEARCH IMPLICATIONS
by Mary Lederleitner | Mar 12, 2021 | COVID-19 Implications, Featured, Future of Missions, New, News | 0
The global pandemic has re-set our ‘normals’ and there is much to be learned about the new environment that is emerging. Deep investigations into issues can yield surprising insights not easily discernible otherwise. We need to see an increase in quality research.
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