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Theology and Practice of Mission: God, the Church, and the Nations

Edited by Bruce Riley Ashford, this publication is to understand the church’s mission to the nations from a biblical and theological framework in four parts. The first part is God’s mission which is to redeem the fallen people for his glory and his Kingdom. The Church’s mission is the second part which begins with humanityContinue reading “Theology and Practice of Mission: God, the Church, and the Nations”

Global Church: Reshaping Our Conversations, Renewing Our Mission, Revitalizing Our Churches

The author, Graham Hill, aims to help Euro-shaped cultural churches become a global missional church which is to be salt, light, and a city locally and globally by engaging in global missional dialogues to learn from the Majority World. Being salt is to increase our saltiness through glocalization conversations. Being light is to renew ourContinue reading “Global Church: Reshaping Our Conversations, Renewing Our Mission, Revitalizing Our Churches”

Diaspora Missions to International Students

Co-authored-by Drs. Enoch Wan and Dennis Bradford. The distinctive approach for international student ministry is integrative of two paradigms, i.e. diaspora missiological paradigm and relational paradigm.

Relational Missionary Training: Theology, Theory & Practice

Co-authored-by: Drs. Enoch Wan and Mark Hedinger. Reality is based on relationships between created beings and Creator Beings. Mission work is about human beings who are in relationship with God introducing yet other human beings to Him. God’s purpose is relational. Our calling in mission is relational and training for mission also needs to beContinue reading “Relational Missionary Training: Theology, Theory & Practice”

The Spread of the Gospel

An animated map of the most important movement in history: the spread of Christianity. Every frame is one year in the last 2000 years of the Great Commission. https://vimeo.com/113801439

Diasporas and International Students: The New People Next Door

Lausanne Occasional Paper No. 55 produced at the 2004 Forum https://www.lausanne.org/content/lop/diasporas-and-international-students-the-new-people-next-door-lop-55

The Willowbank Report

Lausanne Occasional Paper No. 2 produced in 1978 Lausanne Consultation on Gospel and Culture https://www.lausanne.org/content/lop/lop-2

Diaspora Missions Videos

Diasporas session videos in the Lausanne Content Library https://www.lausanne.org/?sfid=27242&_sft_post_tag=diasporas&_sfm_wpcf-groupings=Session%20Videos

Moving to Reach the People on the Move

Dr. Enoch Wan gave a presentation at Cape Town 2010 to discuss the variety of “diaspora missions” approaches that have been created to effectively reach peoples on the move. https://www.lausanne.org/content/moving-reach-people-move?_sft_post_tag=diasporas&_sfm_wpcf-groupings=Session+Videos

Missions Dilemma–Imagine Their Point of View by Steve Saint

“How have we, as North Americans, done missions in the past and how we can improve going forward? Will we be going in to ‘fix’ people or going in with the aim to partner with the National believers in an interdependent relationship?”-Steve Saint. https://youtu.be/QTfeQwKOy6k