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Where Are the Men?

The topic of young men is much on my mind these days. In less than a month, my wife Nina and I will send our son off to university and the opportunities and perils that it brings. In anticipation of this milestone, we recently finished read...

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Sparking ‘Great Commission Thinking’: What It Will Take to Restore Our Lost Missionary Spirit

I was recently asked to describe why our organization wants to send missionaries into new, uncharted, unreached contexts. The potential answers are many, and rather obvious—to glorify God, to rescue the lost, to go to places of most need,...

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Aviation Ministry: Taking the Gospel Through the Sky

Justin fell in love with airplanes as a boy, often building model planes with his brother growing up. His fascination with aviation was inspired by his father, who was raised in a house at the end of a runway. So, when he saw a yellow-win...

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A Missionary’s Heart

David Brainerd, a close associate of Jonathan Edwards, devoted his life to missions among the the North American Indian tribes before his early death at the age of 29. Edward’s compilation of Brainerd’s diary has served as the impetus b...

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Does Proverbs 17:24 Mean That Missionaries Are Fools?

“The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.” (Proverbs 17:24) What does Proverbs 17:24 mean? Are missionaries “fools” for setting their sights on the “ends of the earth”?The ...

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The Case of the Missing Baskets: Urbanization and the People Group Framework

Our missionary team used to gather weekly in our midsized Indian city to pray over a list of people groups in the urban center and its surrounding districts. The list gave a snippet about each people group and told where in the area they we...

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3 Ways to Do Missions From Home

When planes are grounded and stay-at-home orders keep millions isolated, it may seem like missions has been put on hold. How can Christians go and make disciples of all nations when we can’t even leave home? The coronavirus may have shif...

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The 747 Principle: There is No Transformation by Aviation

I’m often asked by aspiring missionaries, “What can I be practically doing today to help prepare for my life and ministry on the mission field?” Sometimes they’ll rattle-off ideas: “Should I begin studying a new language?” �...

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Mincaye: The World’s Most Famous Hunter-Gatherer, Changed by Jesus

Who was Mincaye? On April 28, 2020 the world’s most famous hunter-gatherer left this earth and joined Jim Elliott, Rodger Youderian, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming in the presence of their Savior. The story of those five mission...

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Do ‘Real’ Missionaries Evacuate?

I grew up reading missionary biographies and listening to stories of missionaries who lived and died on their fields of service. Eric Liddell didn’t leave China when the Japanese invaded, and he died in a concentration camp. The five mart...

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