Pew Research Center

A research center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.  To generate a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and supports sound decision-making. https://www.pewresearch.org/

Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration and Mission

By J. D. Payne. The book not only provides much statistic information about global migration, it also tells migration histories from Biblical time to present era, diaspora stories and case studies.  It is written to educate Western readers that God is the one behind people’s movement, and churches need to partner for diaspora outreach inContinue reading “Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration and Mission”

The Seoul Declaration on Diaspora Missiology

LCWE Diaspora Educators Consultation 2009. This is a declaration to global churches about the results from this consultation for what have been affirmed, acknowledged and appealed on diaspora missiology.  This declaration is essential for diaspora missiology, missions, and ministry.   It acknowledges God’s work and the role of churches in missions and diaspora missions.  It affirmsContinue reading “The Seoul Declaration on Diaspora Missiology”

Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God’s Mission in the Bible

Co-authored-by Arthur F. Glasser, Charles E. Van Engen, Dean S. Gilliland, and Shawn B. Redford. This book offers an overall biblical and theological sound study with in-depth approach about the Kingdom of God and church’s mission.  The authors not only explore the Kingdom of God in sequence from Genesis to Revelation, but also cross-reference throughoutContinue reading “Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God’s Mission in the Bible”

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”