Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Mark Naylor
Tags: apostolic • Church • Cross-Cultural • Ethnic • Missional • Missionary • Missions • Short Term Missions • Sindhi
Categories: Missional Church • Missions
NOTE: Mark is available to work with our FEBBC/Y churches to coach missions committees in their role in leading their local church in the area of missions. Please contact mark.naylor@twu.ca or view Mark’s Coaching page
It is so easy to become distracted! Whenever I come home from my Bible translation trips, I have a number of [...]
Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Mark Naylor
Tags: apostolic • Missions • Outreach
Categories: Missions
NOTE: Mark is available to work with our FEBBC/Y churches to coach missions committees in their role in leading their local church in the area of missions. Please contact mark.naylor@twu.ca or view Mark’s Coaching page
A fuzzy understanding of Missions
I have a saying on my screensaver by Joseph Jourbert: “Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they [...]
Posted on October 4th, 2005 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Culture • Language • Missions • Short Term Missions • Training
Categories: Missions
A team of Canadian youth was involved with young people from another culture for an intense two weeks of ministry in children’s camps. They came back excited and impacted, but apart from relief at their safe return home, the church and parents showed little interest in the effect that experience had [...]
Posted on March 4th, 2005 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Evangelism • Leadership • Missional • Missionary • Missions
Categories: Missions
The Fear of Dilution
I was recently talking with a colleague who voiced a concern about the expanding understanding of missions in some of our more missional churches. The missions committee at his church expressed the desire to incorporate local evangelistic and social efforts under the broad umbrella of “missions.” My [...]
Posted on May 4th, 2004 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Missionary • Missions
Categories: Missions
Implications for the Church Oriented Sending Agency
The Partnership Trend
Stemming from a college professor’s interest in his international students, members from a local church began to build relationships with families from that people group. Some of the church members went on to minister full time to these people in their homeland. [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2004 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Missional • Missions
Categories: Missions
Proactive Churches in Missions
Field, Candidate and Church oriented Missions Agencies
Field Oriented Agencies
It may be possible to trace an historical development among North American sending agencies from being "field oriented" to becoming "candidate oriented" and now shifting to a "church oriented" initiative. A traditionally field oriented sending agency actively looks [...]
Posted on March 1st, 2004 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Ethnic • Leadership • Missionary • Missions • Short Term Missions
Categories: Missions
Proactive Churches in Missions
It was only a decade ago that common wisdom for finding support for missionaries said, "Forget the churches and focus on individual contacts." Some missions organizations even encouraged their members to use the churches as a means for raising individual support. In this way they sometimes [...]
Posted on October 3rd, 2003 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Missions
Categories: Missions
During our time in Pakistan the area of the Thar desert was afflicted with a four year drought. People made destitute from the famine migrated out to more habitable regions only to be met by unscrupulous landlords who took advantage of their impoverished state to hire them for mere pennies a [...]
Posted on August 3rd, 2003 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural
Categories: Missions
Even though in our churches, salvation in Christ is primarily described in terms of justice and mercy using the analogy of a celestial court, the focus of justice as a major issue for society is often overshadowed in Evangelical circles by other concerns. The death of thousands of infants through [...]
Posted on July 3rd, 2003 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Evangelism • Missionary • Missions
Categories: Missions
"Don’t plant churches, plant ministries!"
In our recent BC convention (May, 2003) Dr. Ray Bakke challenged us to reach the city for Christ. At one point he said "Don’t plant churches, plant ministries!" Focus on meeting the needs of people in practical ways and the transforming power of the cross will [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2003 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Evangelism • Missions
Categories: Missions
Can Mission be measured?
Mission has been defined narrowly as "carrying the gospel across cultural boundaries to those who owe no allegiance to the Jesus Christ," (Glasser & McGavran 1983:26) and more comprehensively as missio Dei - God’s mission in the world. This contrast of viewpoint is [...]
Posted on February 1st, 2003 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Culture • Missionary • Missions • Pluralism
Categories: Missions
Global technological and political developments have changed the face of the world and altered forever the way the church can participate in God’s work of establishing his kingdom. The great gods of science and secularism of the 20th century are making room for the pluralism and skepticism of the postmodern mind. An increasing [...]