Category: Recent
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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MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: YOUTH IMPLICATIONS
COVID-19 is an epoch-creating event that will deeply affect young people for the rest of their lives. For many, this transformative season will leave deep scars but also shape the way youth engage with the future. Now is the time to reach out, love, minister and include young people in missions.
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MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: JOURNALISM IMPLICATIONS
Missions journalists “are an unseen force which remains largely unrecognized, misunderstood and undervalued”, yet we desperately need to develop a coherent, global narrative of God at work in the world today through missions. Let the creatives rise up and tell today’s story of God’s glory.
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MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: UPG IMPLICATIONS
The pandemic has given us all pause for thought, like a ‘half time break’ at a sports event. Let us use this time wisely to listen, learn and act to encourage churches and missions movements to engage in God’s mission to reconcile all things under Christ, especially where the gospel is least known.
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MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: HUMAN TRAFFICKING IMPLICATIONS
Research from previous crises shows how COVID-19 will see a rise in human trafficking as economic desperation grows with the demand to satisfy the basest of human appetites. Missions can interrupt this with a little awareness, sharing some basic resources and much loving intentionality.
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MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: BRAZILIAN IMPLICATIONS
There remains a lot of uncertainty around what impact COVID-19 pandemic will have on global missions, but we know missions from the Global North and Global South will need to adapt. Here, we discuss some of the major factors that will influence change from a Brazilian perspective.
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MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: TRAINING IMPLICATIONS
Cross-cultural missionary work as a specialty ministry demands an investment in quality preparatory and reflective life-long learning. COVID-19 has disrupted the in-person model of training but accelerated new innovations that will see training made accessible to much wider audiences.
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