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Leading Across Cultures

The future of the global church depends on effective multi-cultural leadership. With missionaries going from anywhere to everywhere, this creates challenges, as different cultures have different assumptions about leadership values and styles.

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The Culture Map

This groundbreaking book is a guide to understanding and navigating cultural differences and managing in multi-national contexts today. Increasingly, people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. This book p...

Three missions in Ghana get creative about funding missions

Fundraising is the unsung hero of the missions movement. While it can be overlooked or even perceived as an embarrassment, missions is not possible without it. Fundraising is a herculean task, not just because some come from countrie...

Called: Farai and Runako

I ignored my initial Macedonian call to be a missionary in Mexico. My wife and I had set our eyes on Asia when the email came to join a multi-cultural team as a church planter; it took weeks and a not-so-gentle-nudge from an elder for me to reply....

Biblical perspective on multi-cultural teams

God’s Word is very clear that all people are created equal and every person can be a child of God, receiving the full inheritance of heaven. The Bible teaches us how to love and serve everyone, no matter their age, ethnicity, gender or natio...

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 buyin...

When 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 must-read for any multi-c...

What 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 c...

Unity 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...

People 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 Bang...