A BIG MISSION for the whole of Asia

The consideration of money (7)

Mike — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:03:10 +0000

This entry is Part 7 of 7 in the series Hindrances To Missions

People make various excuses not to answer God’s call to world-wide missions. One such excuse goes like this, “I am not sure I can financially make it.”

There are many people who are deflected from missionary service because of the fear of financial insecurity.

To those who fear

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Cross-cultural communications made simple (2)

Admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:00:06 +0000

In the mission-field I’ve found another problem with some of my workers who have been formally trained in cross-culture. They tend to be so keen to prove that what they’ve learned in class is correct, that they don’t realize that the person in front of them doesn’t quite fit into the “stereo-type” that they were taught in class.

Generalizations about

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Cross-cultural communications made simple! (1)

Admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:37:49 +0000

Recently I had to interview some candidates for openings in a large mission field in Asia. Some of these candidates had undergone cross-cultural training in Bible schools and in other formal programs, and others had not. After this experience, I feel led to share my opinions on “cross-cultural” communications.

I found that some of the candidates who had gone through formal

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Passion

Deb — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:33:00 +0000

I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.

- Count Nicolaus Ludwn Zinzendorf

Hospitable hosts and controlled eating (3)

Deb — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:18:51 +0000

So perhaps you think you can bring a big appetite while going on a ‘missions tourism’ trip, and gobble up everything in sight during your visitations. While it is rude to refuse food, it is also rude to be a glutton.

I was a little surprised when I was once told not to finish up all the food, but to ensure

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Everything that you knew about China is wrong (2)

Admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:18:51 +0000

In my previous post, I wrote about a Newsweek article whose cover-page was “Every thing that you knew about China is wrong.” It dealt with 6 myths about China that were related to its politics and economy.

While these were useful general information to me, they were not the topics that I was really concerned with. For someone like me,

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Everything you knew about China is wrong (1)

Admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:18:53 +0000

A few days ago I saw the cover-page of Newsweek magazine with an upside down picture of Chairman Mao and the caption “Everything that you knew about China is wrong.” As someone of Chinese ethnic origin and as one who dreams to see to see the world’s largest nation glorifying its Creator, I had to buy a copy of that

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The complication of training (6)

Mike — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:10:42 +0000

This entry is Part 6 of 7 in the series Hindrances To Missions

Another excuse for not entering the mission field goes like this; “But I am not theologically trained.”

Although every missionary needs to be a student of his English bible and know the basics of Christian theology, he does not necessarily need a theological degree to be

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Telecommunications can help us to reach millions in Asia (5)

Admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:10:05 +0000

This entry is Part 5 of 5 in the series Telecommunications In Missions

When the foreign missionaries handed over their ministries to local Asian Christian pastors, they taught the locals to be independent. In large part, this was necessary because they would be separated by thousands of miles and would be unable to effectively communicate with each other. Occasionally,

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Forcing God’s Hand or following the Master

Lisa — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:40:39 +0000

Souls are so important. Ministry is so important. Knowing the will of God and making decisions are so important. The importance is magnified because of what rests in these realities. That’s why the temptation to force God’s hand is so powerful! And also the temptation to believe that it all “rests” on me is even more severe when the stakes

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