Max DePree, who authored “Leadership is an Art,” is credited with saying: “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.” If you think you are in Johannesburg and you are really in Durban, it will be difficult to…
In the previous post, we presented the first 5 of 10 things new and prospective missionaries need to know before heading to the mission field. Many of us have had to say “Oops, wish I’d known that!” So I’m hoping…
“Oops, I should have known that.” Those words or something similar have been repeated thousands of times by missionaries. I have personally contributed abundantly to that statistic. The following list isn’t “the” only ten things new and prospective missionaries should…
When companies set out to design a new product, one of the first questions the product team asks is, “What is the product’s “unique selling proposition (USP)”? In essence, they are determining what value the product will have in the…
Aquila finished stitching the last seam on the large market canopy as his wife Priscilla rose to answer the loud knock on the door of their shop. Daylight was fading quickly, and the sputtering oil lamp was struggling to dispel…
For 1800 years of church history, missionaries did not raise financial support. They simply packed up their toolbox, moved to another country, started a business and did Great Commission work. It has only been the last couple hundred years in…