Summer 2022 / 76th
1. CARING FOR GLOBAL MISSION WORKERS – BURNING OUT BURNOUT
[Hyon Kim]
During my final year of medical school, I had the opportunity to serve at a mission hospital in an Asian country. With a deep sense of call and many months of preparation, I arrived on the “mission field” eager to meet some “real missionaries”. Upon my arrival, I was given a tour of the hospital and introduced to Dr. Ivey* (not real name), the missionary physician who would serve as my supervisor. I was eager to see Christ-centred care in action, and on my first morning I joined Dr. Ivey and her team of local nurses for morning rounds…
2. TEN COMMON CHALLENGES
[Jacky Lau]
International workers (IWs) encounter many challenges in responding to the missionary call. One out of eighteen (or 5.5 percent) of IWs from new sending countries left their posts due to preventable reasons each year, according to a study by 455 mission agencies with 23,000 workers in 1992-94 (Hay et al. 2007, 12). For the past twenty years, IWs from the A4 regions have become a significant force in frontier missions…
3. MY JOURNEY IN MEMBER CARE
[Grace Margaret Alag]
I had never heard of this term before, but there I was in my 2nd year of MA in Organizational Leadership (Azusa Pacific University), in the classroom of my professor, Dr. Lois Dodds and later Dr. Larry Dodds. And on a table, they had brochures of Heartstream Resources, their organization and programs (www.heartstreamresources.org). They gave me some to read and said I might be interested to come and join their programs. At that time, I was serving in a church denomination as a trainer and was on my final year of the ten years service. Towards the end of my service, I would also have had three major surgeries related to my reproductive system…
4. THE POWER OF PRAYER IN MISSIONARY CARE
[Suraja Raman]
Why discuss on a subject pertaining to missionary care? Because we are living in challenging times! Missionaries are facing tough times on a daily basis, and that risks are too much to bear sometimes. The world is suffering from the pandemic, COV 19, Delta variant, and now, Omicron. These are viruses that had spread to nations, affecting people from the youngest to the oldest…
5. IS INCLUSIVISM BIBLICAL?
[Takaaki Hara]
What is the eternal fate of those who have not responded to the gospel? Are they destined for hell as orthodox Christianity has traditionally held? This is not only a theological question but also a deeply personal issue as none of my family members in Japan, including my late father, is a Christian. In this article we will investigate whether inclusivism can offer comfort and hope regarding the fate of those who have not responded to the gospel…
6. MIGRATION, DIASPORA AND ICs
[T. V. Thomas]
It seems that the whole world’s population is on the move! Since the dawn of the 21st Century we have witnessed an unprecedented surge in migration worldwide. We have witnessed worldwide population shifts on a mega scale. People are crossing national borders for many reasons i.e. transnational migration is now a reality…
