Current Articles

Bi-Vocational Workers – An Overlooked Path to Growth

Western organizations assume that after two years, a new church led by nationals will be able to support starting new churches.

Fill a Gap – Propel a Ministry

National leaders could be more successful if they had a better understanding of some basic business skills that would propel their mission enterprise.

Teachers Need an Update on Church Missions

Seminary and Bible college teachers need updated curriculum to inspire participation in global missions today.

Digging into the Unknown

Impact measurement is more than counting conversions, new churches and Bible translations. It's looking at the indicators of lasting growth change.

The Man of Peace Wears a Skirt

Is India’s much heralded Church Planting Movement a Woman to Women Church Planting movement?

Essential Mission Objective Missing?

One aspect of missions that often seems forgotten these days is the stewardship aspect of starting new churches and training new believers.

10 Costly Giving Mistakes

Gilles Gravelle sat down with several high-capacity donors to learn about their giving mistakes and what they learned from it.

Letting Go

It is clear the church of the global south is expanding rapidly. But access to translations and resources is lagging far behind.

False Gospel Assumptions

Strategic ministry decisions are being made based on marred data based on false assumptions about the status of local and global Christianity.

STM- A Better Way to View It

Some see it as annoying, amateur and wasteful. Churches embrace it. It’s called short-term missions and it seems it’s here to stay. 

America’s Unaligned Missions

Research results provide insights on the state of U.S. church missions in general. It also reveals some striking assumptions and biases that demonstrate how misaligned the church is with current realities of 21st century missions.

A Zone of Contention More Doable Than We Think

There is a zone in Africa that agriculturalists refer to as the tension zone. This zone is also known as one of the most tension filled in spiritual terms.

Love and Literacy Bring an End to Generational Poverty

Problems like poverty, trafficking, and even infanticide seem so intractable because it’s all been around for so long. Then a disruptor arrives in the form of caring people.

Business on Mission & Why Bees Matter

Today’s for-profit companies are increasingly on mission too, as they need to be. We believe business thinking can benefit the nonprofit mission sector.

Refresh: A Theology of Today’s Mission

Gospel spreading was in large part due to Western people bringing the gospel message to foreign places through official church mission work or by other means, such as business, commerce, and colonial expansion.