Category Archives: Missions

Tides of Opportunity: Missiological Experiences and Engagement in Global Migration

Edited by Sadiri Joy Tira, Damples Dulcero-Baclagon, and Lorajoy Tira-Dimangondayao. Hope and Hospitality for Migrating People Never have so many people left their homes and migrated to other parts of the world as we’ve seen in recent years. This phenomenon creates as many opportunities as challenges. We are witnessing a massive increase in urbanization, pluralization,Continue reading “Tides of Opportunity: Missiological Experiences and Engagement in Global Migration”

Global Trends 2023

The UN Refugee Agency. The latest Global Trends report, published in June 2023, provides key statistical trends on forced displacement. It includes the latest official statistics on refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, as well as the number of refugees who have returned home. At the end of 2022, 108.4 million people worldwide were forcibly displacedContinue reading “Global Trends 2023”

Marginality of Visible Minorities in Canada: A Missiological Study (D-Diaspora)

Nestor Abdon and Enoch Wan. The unprecedented movement of people in the 21st century is a central theme in mission circles. With this movement comes suffering and pain for people who must adjust to the reality of living in a new environment, away from the homeland. The experience of people in diaspora is not uniform with communitiesContinue reading “Marginality of Visible Minorities in Canada: A Missiological Study (D-Diaspora)”

Relational Intercultural Training for Practitioners of Business As Mission: Theory and Practice

Enoch Wan and Natalie Kim. Business as Mission (BAM) is a holistic approach to mission that aims to transform the multifaceted spheres of unreached peoples and communities within and through business. While different types of businesses have different measures of achievement and success, there is one essential characteristic that distinguishes business as mission – relationships formed and developed throughContinue reading “Relational Intercultural Training for Practitioners of Business As Mission: Theory and Practice”

Establishing Frontline LGBTQ Outreach: An Exploratory Study (Relational) 

Noel Chiu and Enoch Wan. If you are curious about who are LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/question) and how to engage in outreach ministry to them, this book will be helpful to you. Both believing and non-believing LGBTQ are not comfortable with Christian faith and individual Christians because of their sexual orientation/attraction/behavior. ThisContinue reading “Establishing Frontline LGBTQ Outreach: An Exploratory Study (Relational) “

World Development Report 2023

The World Bank. World Development Report 2023 proposes an integrated framework to maximize the development impacts of cross-border movements on both destination and origin countries and on migrants and refugees themselves. The framework it offers, drawn from labor economics and international law, rests on a “match and motive” matrix that focuses on two factors: how closely migrants’Continue reading “World Development Report 2023”

Motivations for Missions: A Relational-Covenantal Perspective

Enoch Wan and Christopher M. Santiago . The purpose of this book is to explore motivations for mission from a covenantal perspective within a relational framework in three steps: exploring the topic theologically, examining it theoretically, and deriving missiological implications. This book is a contribution to an underrepresented perspective to the missiological research on motivesContinue reading “Motivations for Missions: A Relational-Covenantal Perspective”

Utilizing Indigenous Cultural Traits for Cross-Cultural Missions

PAUL SUNGRO LEE. It is tactical for the global body of Christ in the current page of missio Dei to develop cross-cultural workers who will cultivate their own cultural uniqueness, utilize it for the benefit of the Great Commission, and mobilize it to reach under-reached groups in similar cultural backgrounds. We must not merely replicate the standardizedContinue reading “Utilizing Indigenous Cultural Traits for Cross-Cultural Missions”