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One hundred years ago the Edinburgh Missionary Conference was held (1910). This past year there have been numerous mission conferences to celebrate the centenary. Marv Newell attended Cape Town 2010 and shared the following comment regarding the global nature of Christianity. I thought it worth repeating here. Mission has become a tapestry of multiple threads made [...] Today I received an e-mail from Keith Ham in Kenya. He shared the good news that of the 96 Mathare Valley students studying at Joska, 93 of them passed their high school entry exam. That is fantastic, since the national average for Kenya is 40%. (By the way, 93 of 96 is just over 96% [...] One of the best ways to address poverty is to use the “three-E-strategy.” One E is for evangelism, because Christ brings abundant life and offers hope for a better future. A second E is for education, because education helps us to see beyond ourselves and also is important is being able to secure the third E, employment. [...] We have hosted a gathering for missions professors, missiologists, and missions trainers now for about a dozen years, picking up the meeting after it had been idle for several years. The one day event takes place at the annual National Missionary Convention. Attendance ranges from 20 to 40 each year. It is an occasion where [...] Once or twice a year at our CMF training sessions I am asked to speak on the subject of “culture shock.” I published an article on the subject years ago in which I noted four stages of culture shock: 1) the romantic stage; 2) the realization stage; 3) the rejection stage (which often leads to retreat [...] I am psyched to let you know that my friends Bill and Verna Weber have joined the CMF staff as Consultants in International Leadership. I met Bill nearly twenty years ago. I was in Indianapolis visiting from Singapore and Bill was in town doing some educational work related to a Lilly grant. We stayed together [...] When I was in Oregon last March I had a workshop at Mayfest, a day-long event for Seniors. Accompanying me was my trusty side-kick, LeRoy Lawson, who had main billing. My workshop focused on trends in missions and how those trends related to seniors wanting to be involved in mission efforts. LeRoy read my notes, offered some suggestions, [...] Last week the North American Christian Convention was held in Indianapolis, and we were privileged to be there. CMF’s own Mary Kamau from Kenya was featured in the Wednesday evening service at which Dick Alexander preached following a wonderful worship service. Dick interviewed Mary, who received a standing ovation for her transformational ministry in the [...] Last week I had the opportunity of bring four evening messages at the Oregon Christian Convention. This was the 158th year of the convention. I’ve been to the convention many times in my life; it is part of who I am. It was an honor to be asked to speak. My title was Unfinished Agenda: [...] Not long ago I posted an entry under the title of May I Rant a Bit in which I raised some questions about the ‘unreached people groups’ paradigm in missions. Today I came across an article, “Metrics of Missions: Measuring Faithfulness and Fruitfulness” by Justin Long (The Mission Exchange 2010:3:4-5). The following quotes are related [...] |
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