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 November 1st, 2008 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Contextualization • Culture • Evangelism • Missional • Outreach
Categories: Evangelism
passion for the Great Commission
From the outset of this article, I want to be clear that I believe in and promote evangelism. One of my ministries offered to our FEB churches through Northwest and FEBInternational is that of coaching for evangelism following the grassroots method of encouraging Significant Conversations. Furthermore, it is not my intention [...]
Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Culture • Dialogue • Evangelism • Intercultural • Missional • Missionary • Training • Worldview
Categories: Evangelism
The Common hunger of Humanity
What we as human beings search for and value in life is the “meaningful” and the “good.”
With regard to the “meaningful,” we are always trying to make sense of our world. Hopelessness, which is what we seek to avoid, is the antithesis of the “meaningful” and happens when the [...]
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Evangelism • Intercultural • Missional • Missionary • Sindhi • Translation
Categories: Evangelism
Check out the SISI system – an alternative grassroots approach to engage your community for Christ
Canada is not Pakistan
Evangelism in Pakistan was easy. I would occasionally travel in a bus with a pile of tracts in Sindhi with an invitation to visit me printed on the back.1 I would read a tract by holding [...]
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Evangelism • Intercultural • Islam • Language • Leadership • Missional • Missions • Short Term Missions • Sindhi • Training • Translation
Categories: Uncategorized
Coordinator of the Centre for Intercultural Leadership Development (CILD)
Mark served along with Karen, his wife, in Pakistan among the Sindhi Muslim people for fourteen years, doing evangelism, church planting and leadership development. He continues with his responsibilities as the supervisor and primary exegete for the Sindhi Old Testament translation project. Here at Northwest Mark’s responsibilities [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2007 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Culture • Language • Missional • Missionary • Missions
Categories: Missional Church
Validating Missional and Communal
“Attractional” churches according to Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch are those congregations that develop “programs, meetings, services, or other ‘products’ in order to attract unbelievers into the influence of the Christian community.” They argue that this approach is “increasingly ineffective” and is the result of “old Christendom” [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Culture • Leadership • Missional • Missions
Categories: Missional Church
A Fatal Trend
When we were missionaries in Pakistan there was a time when “church planting” became the standard for our team - it was the tie to church planting that validated the ministries we were involved in. However, the demand for a direct church planting connection resulted in an analysis and [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Communication • Culture • Evangelism • Intercultural • Missional • Missions
Categories: Missional Church
In The Shaping of Things to Come, St Thomas’s Crookes is given as an example of a church that is shaped around its participation in God’s mission to the world. The basic level of the church consists of cells whose aim is to relate relevantly and redemptively with a particular [...]
Posted on December 5th, 2006 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Contextualization • Culture • Islam • Language • Missional • Missionary • Religion • Sindhi • Worldview
Categories: Missional Church
An Inward or Outward focus?
Hudson Taylor was a pioneer missionary to China who recognized the need to immerse himself in the Chinese culture in order to relate the gospel to the people in ways that made sense to his audience. He learned their language, wore his hair in a pigtail, wore their [...]
Posted on November 5th, 2006 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Islam • Missional • Missionary • Sindhi
Categories: Missional Church
In the previous article, a missional church was defined as the communal relationship between followers of Christ which stems from intentional gospel transformation in the world (outward orientation). In contrast the more prevalent communal oriented church can be defined as the communal relationship between followers of Christ as an expression of [...]
Posted on October 5th, 2006 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Culture • Leadership • Missional • Sindhi
Categories: Missional Church
FEBI goal: missional churches
FEBInternational, the mission arm of the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Canada, is a church planting mission and has been from its inception over 40 years ago. Recently under the leadership of the current director, Richard Flemming, this goal has been clarified as planting missional churches. This [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2005 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Culture • Ethnic • Evangelism • Language • Leadership • Mentoring • Missional • Missionary • Missions • Training
Categories: Cross-cultural leadership training
The Need for Cross-cultural Leadership Training:
Why FEBInternational is developing
the CLTP program
“We no longer need ‘general practitioner’ missionaries here.” This comment from an experienced FEBI missionary points to an important reality in missions today: the need for quality personnel who can provide “value added” ministry. A guiding principle to validate [...]
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 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 [...]