I’ve just finished reading The Bethlehem Story by Andy McCullough; a truly remarkable book. I’ll review it in a day or two, but for now I just wanted to quote a passage from the final chapter (which is actually written by Dave Devenish). Furthermore, the Western church in particular must learn to listen to those […]
Let’s start off with an outrageous statement; “mission is not a biblical concept”. That isn’t to say that the things that missionaries and/or mission agencies do are not found in the Bible, but there is no one overarching description of something called mission. Some people argue that the word mission is derived from the Latin […]
Some excellent observations on the state of the UK’s involvement in world mission.
We simply can’t assume that we can go and minister in other people’s back yard without taking their views and understandings into account.
Some thoughts from Michael Stroope on the future of mission.
In my day job, I recently conducted a survey on missionary recruitment in the UK. The results may (or may not) surprise you.
The talks from the best mission conference I have been to in a long, long time.
As the world church grows ever more diverse, we need to learn to listen to others who have different experiences to us. The first step in this process is to avoid putting people in boxes.
Over the last 30 years we have studies linguistics and French and lived in France, Cameroon and Ivory Coast. We spent six years in an isolated village with no running water or electricity and another six years in one of the biggest cities in Africa. We’ve been involved in grass roots translation work, mission leadership and various training and consulting roles; we’ve packed a fair bit in! We’ve also made some amazing friends from all across the world.
If you can’t see the video above, you can find it here (it’s a one minute introduction to us and to what we do).