Volume 5.4
Missionary teams are increasingly mult-cultural and multi-national. This presents unique challenges but also great benefits, for those who are willing to open their hearts and minds to new ways of doing things. The multi-cultural team, when it is full of Christian love, can open doors to the Gospel like nothing else.
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 o...
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 challenges...
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 somethi...
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 ...
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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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 nati...
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...
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 countries with we...
People Groups: Antanala of Madagascar
The Antanala people live in and near the forests of southeastern Madagascar. They are divided into two subgroups: the Tanala Menabe in the mountainous north and the Tanala Ikongo in the more accessible south.
Tanala Menabe village...
