Joel Huyser Series
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Posted on September 12, 2011, 11:29 am | 4 comments
Topics: Missional Church
As a kid, I thought of a cross-cultural missionary as a church planter or community developer sent by a denominational agency to some remote country in Latin America, Asia or Africa. Frankly, that definition left most of us comfortably outside of any of the possible lines of responsibility. As I grew older I realized that my childhood image was not all that Biblical.
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Posted on August 29, 2011, 8:37 am | 5 comments
Topics: Global Mission
I grew in Sully, Iowa, in the 1960’s. Every year my parents would take us to Mission Fest at Market Square in Pella. I thought of missionaries as rather exotic creatures who travelled to far off lands. They showed slides that could have been borrowed from the files of National Geographic.
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Posted on August 15, 2011, 8:00 am | 6 comments
Topics: Network Buzz, Serving
Circles of friends with a shared vision are the birthing rooms for Kingdom collaboration. But sometimes circles of friends can become closed networks. Circles of friends can warp into ethnic or denominational bubbles or even just plain Christian bubbles - - bubbles that protect those on the inside from people and ideas that seem different.
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Posted on August 1, 2011, 9:10 pm | 11 comments
Topics: Global Mission
The question was really quite simple, “Can we be friends?” My first unspoken instinct was the somewhat sarcastic rejoinder that in my opinion we were already friends. But I bit my tongue and instead asked Darryl what he meant by his question.
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Posted on July 18, 2011, 8:18 am | 3 comments
Topics: Missional Church
Programs can be efficient ways to accomplish specific results. They usually involve commissioning or delegating people with special gifts to do certain tasks on behalf of the rest of us. Movements, on the other hand, happen when ordinary people like you and I become contagious about a shared vision and begin
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Posted on July 1, 2011, 11:23 am | 3 comments
Topics: Missional Church
As many as one out of every four Nicaraguans currently claim a “born again” experience. There’s little doubt that many individuals and families have changed because the Gospel has taken root in their lives. But a growing number of Nicaraguan evangelicals are beginning to ask...
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