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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: SE AFRICAN RESILIENCE IN CRISIS
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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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: EVERYONE TO EVERYWHERE
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”.
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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: REVIEWING L4
“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.
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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: ANTICIPATING L4
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.
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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: DISCIPLESHIP IN ASIA
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.
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LEADER’S MISSIONS FORECAST 2023
LEADER’S MISSIONS FORECAST 2023 [60 Minute Read] Dear fellow participants in God’s mission,...
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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: HONOURING DATA IN MISSIONS
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.
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REIMAGINING MISSIONS: PRAYER DEVOTED
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.
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LEADER’S MISSIONS FORECAST 2021
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.
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MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: TCK IMPLICATIONS
A certain level of disruption is normal for “Third Culture Kids” but, like the rest of us, TCKs have been caught off guard and thrust into uncomfortable limbo. Everyone’s story is unique. We are privileged in this essay to view the COVID-19 disruption through the perspectives of some TCKs affected.
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MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: MOVEMENT IMPLICATIONS
In this post, Dave Coles (24:14 Network) shares some grassroots accounts of how the gospel is being shared in a ‘whole of life’ way by members of Disciple Making Movements. In the midst of the most trying circumstances, God is being glorified through the generous obedience of His people.
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MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: CORRUPTION IMPLICATIONS
Anti-corruption specialist, Robert Laver has gifted us an article concerning corruption increasing in a COVID context. We feature his article here followed by a response from the Mission Commission to help us combat corruption within churches, ministries and missions and then in society.
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