Missionaries

This is the first article in a series based on the book, Detours: 10 Roadblocks to the Great Commission, by Paul Seger. Real pastors were asked, “Why would a church NOT want to send missionaries from their congregation?”  “Detours” explores…

Missionaries do not all look the same. Some serve through business, others through teaching, medical work, hospitality, leadership, church planting, or pastoral ministry. Some enter closed countries as tentmakers or using business as mission (BAM), while others are sent openly…

A major discussion point in missions work is where to send missionaries. Missiologists spend a lot of time figuring out where there are unreached people, and there are multiple organisations and websites devoted to identifying unengaged people groups. For 17 years, I…

Most missionaries who have gone to foreign mission fields do not expect to return home anytime soon – if ever. My parents were pioneer missionaries in Nigeria. The generation that preceded my parents to the field shipped a casket with…

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…