Language learning: How fluent do I need to be?
Posted on 1st April 2005
Over the past twenty-two years we have welcomed over two thousand students, most of them missionary candidates, to "our" language school in the southern suburbs of Paris, and we are often asked to what extent the Christian worker needs to be fluent in a given language - in our case,...
When Team Relationships take a Dive
Posted on 1st March 2005
Disputes and conflicts between individuals and groups, in organisations or in private, Christian as well as secular, are all too frequent. Left to take their course, minor differences can become acrimonious, and may lead to painful partings of the ways for those involved. The cost of not dealing properly with...
The Mount Horeb Experience
Posted on 1st January 2005
When and why times of retreat are important.
Times of retreat are vital for any full-time Christian worker and none more so than for people based overseas, either when returning home on furlough or at the end of an assignment. Spiritual refreshment for those involved in cross-cultural work can often...
A Ministry of Encouragement
Posted on 1st December 2004
(Encourage International's application for the next job - to heaven's head office)
Dear Sir,
I am looking for a job. I have heard you need some help befriending missionaries.
I have had many years experience of just that - being a friend to missionaries. I keep in touch with them...
The Ideal Supporter
Posted on 1st November 2004
So, what is the ideal supporter like?
What would be in a job specification for the ideal supporter? To get an insight into how the job was viewed at the outset of the church's missionary endeavours, we need to go back to the beginning.
Paul's letter to the Philippians was...
friendshipfirst
Posted on 1st October 2004
The Need
During the 1990s British church attendance shrank by 10%. Clearly 'church', as we have known it, has more past than future. Is the church trying to serve a Britain that no longer exists? We have become a 'post-Christian' ,'post-modern' and 'pluralist' society, which includes nearly two million Muslims....
What's Your Story?
Posted on 1st September 2004
How many of you ended up in a leadership position you did not train for and were not experienced at? How many of you are led by a leader who did not ask for his/her role, does not like it, does not feel skilled for it and frankly in your...
Please Send Me a Wife!
Posted on 1st July 2004
Our guest article for July 2004 is an interview with Gerry Slessenger of Mission Supplies Limited. Further details about MSL can be found at the bottom of the interview:
OSCAR: Why would/should a mission worker choose a mission shipper like Mission Supplies Limited over a secular shipping agent (like DHL or...
Mobilising Young People into Mission
Posted on 1st June 2004
"The fields are white for harvest." "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the labourers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out labourers into his harvest."
This may be a fact but, in recent research the two main issues that militate against this...
Web Evangelism
Posted on 1st April 2004
"I believe it is one of the most key tools that God has give us in the church today." - George Verwer
Although most mission agencies and Christian groups use the Web to communicate both internally and with their Christian constituencies, few are using it for primary evangelism. Here's a tool...
