By Kent Johnson. My wife and I recently had the opportunity to attend the Mission to North America (MNA) Assessment Center. Over the ten years since graduating from seminary, I have attended dozens of seminars but had never been so keyed up before. Now that it is over, I have to admit that those four days rank among the most unique and memorable of my minis
Church Leadership
Church Planting as a Key Missions Strategy
By J. Philip Clark. The goal of the Presbyterian Church in Amer
Economic Trends and Their Impact on Missiology
Economics touches every single aspect of life – even missions. For exam
The Church: Witnessing Force or Mere Sending Agency?
By Les Thompson. Missionaries have been the backbone of God’s plan to tell others the Good Hews of God’s redemption since the days of Noah. We tend to think of missionaries as unusual – or, at best, special – at the very least, as different from ourselves. But in actuality missionaries down through the ages have simply been people who sensed a special call from God to leave their homelands and cross cultural boundaries, oceans and mountains to establish the Church of Jesus Christ in every corner of the world.
Non-Christians have lent missionary activity an air of comic opera: dowdy people under pith helmets dressed in wrinkled khakis, clumsily exporting our American ways of life rather than true religion. Hollywood jokingly portrays mis
Conservation or Pollution?
(Excerpts from remarks by Secretary of the Interior before the National Association of Evangeli
“Harvest”: Offering Freedom in Christ
By Sharon Kraemer. Approximately 250,000 homosexuals live in the greater Philadelphia area. Tenth Presbyterian Church, a well-known PCA congregation, is located in the geographical center of the gay community. Four years ago the church realized it had a mission field literally on its doorstep, and a Bible study was begun for anyone interested in finding healing from homosexuality.
From that small beginning, an evangelistic, coun