Marty Shaw. Jr. and Enoch Wan. A great deal of change has and continues to take place in the world of missions even within the few short years of the 21st century. One of those areas of change is the reality that missions no longer emanates from a few centers of the west, but truly is a global effort. While churches of the four-fifths world have been sending missionaries for many
years, the study and attempt to understand and deal with reality has only come to the forefront of western mission literature in the last thirty years.