Category: Reimagining Missions
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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