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Here's what you'll find in Evangelical Missions Quarterly

EMQ explores key topics in world missions today. Our writers are veteran missionaries and mission leaders who bring years of experience to the table as they research, reflect and write on select issues.

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Latest Issue: Jul 2009

Articles

Funding Kingdom Work By Building Financial Capacity in National Organizations

Mary Mallon Lederleitner

Wycliffe International’s “Matching Funds Experiment” produced significant results for the Church to consider when considering models of local and global giving for missionary support.

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Remembering the Story: Historical Reflection Leading to Spiritual Dialogue

Edward Smither

The author shares how historical reflection promoted meaningful presentations of the gospel with Muslims in North Africa.

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A Missionary Ethic of Economic Affluence

Jayson Georges

The author seeks to create a larger ethic for the issue of missionary affluence that allows others to make redemptive decisions in particular contexts.

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Let More African Americans Minister to Their "Cousin" Black Africans!

Faustin Ntamushobora

The author looks at similar values between African Americans and Black Africans that can lead to spiritual and social bonding and missional opportunities between the two groups.

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Contextualization in a Glocalizing World

Colin E. Andrews

Five realities we need to face as we seek to contextualize the gospel message in an increasingly globalized world that is filled with “flat cities.”

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Dad’s Final Gift: Caring for Aging Parents on the Mission Field

Antonia Lee

The author shares, through one deeply moving example, how caring for aging parents on the mission field can lead missionaries into a deeper understanding of the culture in which they serve.

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Sometimes It Just Seems Good: Another Look at Missionary Call

Luke Greer

“It seemed good,” is a little phrase in Acts 15 which can have profound implications on missionary call.

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From Singular People Group Adoption to Multiple People Group Advocacy

Erik Hyatt

The author discusses the benefits of a church moving from singular people adoption toward a multiple people group advocacy model.

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A Second Look: Editorial by EMQ Editor Gary Corwin

The Consensus Principle

Gary Corwin

The challenges to organizational unity are perhaps as great today as they have ever been.

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Perspectives: EMQ Guest Editorial

Ducking Missionary Conflict in Africa and Beyond

Jim Harries

Interpersonal conflicts frequently trouble missionary endeavors.

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Mission Resources on the Web

Mission Associations

A. Scott Moreau and Mike O'Rear

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Classifieds

Classified Ads

A. Scott Moreau and Mike O'Rear

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Excellence in Missions: Best Practices from CrossGlobal Link

Organizational Response to Internet Pornography among Members

Steven G. Edlin and Karen Ulrich

The internet allows people to engage in the secret sin of pornography, and it is not until marriages and families are destroyed, jobs are lost, and friendships suffer that people begin to see its ugly consequences.

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The Leading Edge: Personal and Organizational Growth from The Mission Exchange

Puck and the Mischief of Measurement: How to Assess Ministry Outcomes

Daniel Rickett and Bob Morrison

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Book Reviews

Conversion Growth of Protestant Churches in Thailand

Marten Visser

Visser brings clarity to a statistical “mess” with what is surely the most comprehensive and rigorous statistical study of the Thai Church ever.

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Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing It Right!

Robert J. Priest, ed.

The author takes an insightful look at the issues surrounding the largest mission initiative of our time.

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Leading Cross-Culturally: Covenant Relationships for Effective Christian Leadership

Sherwood G. Lingenfelter

This latest book in a series of three by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter deals with culture and cross-cultural leadership for Western and Majority World leaders who are leading multicultural teams in various ministry contexts.

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The Making of a Local Church

Francisco F. Claver

As a Roman Catholic clergy in the Majority World and a trained cultural anthropologist, Francisco Claver, evaluates the Church through the eyes of both a theologian and a social scientist.

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Muslims, Christians, and Jesus: Gaining Understanding and Building Relationships

Carl Medearis

Medearis focuses on how to build quality relationships with Muslims.

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Pathways in Christian Music Communication: The Case of the Senufo of Côte d’Ivoire

Roberta R. King

One of the most exciting aspects of the increasing appreciation for oral communication strategies in Christian missions is the emergence of ethnomusicology.

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Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods

Eckhard J. Schnabel

There has always been a temptation, when considering biblical texts, to move too quickly from narrative description to normative prescription.

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Simple Spirituality: Learning to See God in a Broken World

Christopher L. Heuertz

This book is a personal journey to some of the poorest places on earth, and when we follow, we gain profound insights on following Jesus.

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Transformation after Lausanne: Radical Evangelical Mission in Global-Local Perspective

Al Tizon

How should missiology be conceived and the missionary task carried out in an age which labors under the weight of the competing ideologies of modernity and postmodernity?

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Translating the Bible in Action: How the Bible Can Be Relevant in All Languages and Cultures

Harriet Hill and Margaret Hill

Dr. Harriet Hill and Margaret Hill have prepared this book based upon their experiences leading and training leaders of scripture engagement seminars.

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