How to thrive in your multicultural team
My wife said to the Tanzanian shopkeeper, “Nipatie Sukari na Sabuni,” which means “Give me sugar and soap.” He replied by teaching her a lesson, saying “In Tanzania, you don’t command people even if you are buying some...
Read MoreWhen Helping Hurts
When Helping Hurts promotes the idea that we are each uniquely needy, but there is dignity in everyone. The God in the gospel is reconciling all things to Himself. Full of practical examples and strategies, this book is a mus...
Read MoreWhat held us together: diverse yet unified
More than ten years ago, God led Africa Inland Mission to mobilize a multicultural team to work among unreached rural people groups in Tanzania. Committed to the Lord and to their common vision, the team launched into ministry. The challen...
Read MoreUnity through diversity
Our world has become very diverse and is becoming more diverse as people move around more easily and quickly than in previous years. Both corporate businesses and Christian organisations seek ways to improve their places of work and ministry in or...
Read MorePeople Groups: People of Ayutthaya, Thailand
The city of Ayutthaya is the former capital of Thailand and an important place for Thai Buddhists, especially on holy days and national holidays. It is known as a place of spiritual power. Just 40 miles north of the huge city of Bangkok, i...
Read MoreTestimony of Tambaya Ibrahim
Pray for the Fulani – our September 2023 issue has updated information and prayer requests. There is a lot going on around the Fulani and we need to pray for them to find Jesus, and for those who know Him to be bold in their witnes...
Read MoreCalled: Paul Mawaya
In July 1876, after a revival in South Africa, four young men from the Xhosa tribe set out as pioneer missionaries to Malawi. The Ngoni, a people group in Malawi, were a bloodthirsty, menacing people, whose conquests were known far and wid...
Read MoreA fresh eye to financing the Great Commission mission
In 2000, I conducted a training in Sudan for 12 evangelists. One day, someone raised an important question: How would they be supported to evangelise their people since I had been financed to evangelise them?
I struggled with this d...
Read MoreUnreached people groups: in search of the best words
Over the years, Christians have developed vocabulary to try to describe the lost. One of the most-used phrases is “unreached people groups” or UPGs. It has become so common we take it for granted when we pray, discuss and create our mission st...
Read MoreAre missionaries reaching the reached?
Below, you will see two maps comparing the countries with the most missionaries (purple) and countries with the most Christians (blue). It is apparent that missionaries are being assigned to locations where Chris...
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