3 Reasons We Need Women in Missions
As biblical complementarians, we can’t underestimate the contributions of women to church-planting teams.
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Loving Your Enemy
A missionary in Papua New Guinea lives out the hard mandate of loving your enemy after a father lets his baby die
Sophie Jenista’s Lifelong Call
Sophie Jenista has faithfully served with ABWE for 70 years. At 95, she still facilitates a prison ministry in the Philippines
Time to Rest
The Drakes discover why furloughing from the mission field is indeed a recharge for ministry.
Care for Uprooted Missionary Kids
ABWE’s MK Care team encourages our families through resources, prayer, discipleship, and sometimes even just a hug.
Life Lines
In the midst of crisis, Member Care offers a “safe space” for missionaries and teams, and works hard to prevent crises by promoting spiritually healthy souls.
Providing More Than Healthcare
ABWE’s International Healthcare Ministries ensures medical missionaries are healthy and equipped for the field.
The Minister’s Sabbath Example
When we refuse to take proper rest in ministry, we unconsciously communicate to unbelievers that our God is a heavy-handed taskmaster.
Doing Missions Like John the Baptist
When John lost one of his own disciples to Jesus, he was elated, not deflated. We must share the same focus.
What Are Worldviews and How Do They Change?
Can people really change? Dr. John Mark Yeats explains the work of missiologist Paul Hiebert.
This Is What ‘Calling’ Looks Like
Raise Clark, missionary to Hungary, explains how God led her to go—and her local church to affirm her calling.
4 Keys to Sharing the Gospel With Buddhists
We can begin to contextualize the gospel by starting on common ground with the problem of suffering.
5 Critical Reminders for Modern Christians on the Death of John Allen Chau
Should Chau be lionized as an heroic Christian martyr, or should his memory be pilloried as a reckless, colonizing zealot?
Why We Don’t Send More Missionaries
When all our missionary rally-cries are guilt-based and not grace-grounded, the result is a tired, small, weakened labor force.
Justin Long: How Many Unreached Are There Really?
How do we really know how many unreached people groups there are—and is that the thing we should be counting, anyway?
Scott Dunford and Bob Bixby on Church Planting in Silicon Valley
The San Francisco Bay Area is truly a mission field—not only as a place to engage secularism, but to find unreached migrant communities.
What is ‘Gospel-Centered’ Missions?
The constant risk of mission drift means we can’t take the centrality of the gospel for granted—even in missions.
A Conversation on John Chau, Missions, Methodology, and Martyrdom
What can John Chau teach the church and the broader Western culture which condemns conversionary missions altogether as mere colonialism?