Career missionaries needed

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"If everyone is called to be a missionary, I wish some more would come to West Africa" -- Linda Seaman

"Who will go?" -- Isaiah 6:8

Missionary calling and commitment

Thousands of immediate openings. Candidates must have passion, knowledge, sensitivity, partnering skills, commitment and flexibility.

1. Passion for evangelistic, church-planting ministry
   • The problem is our passion" - Jim Diehl
   • "Lack of passion for the lost" - Nina Gunter
   • Live and let live? Thoughts on Luke 5 and 6
   • 10 ways to avoid becoming a missionary
2. Missiological knowledge and skills
   • Missiology
3. Appreciation of the need for cross-cultural sensitivity
   • Milestones on the road to cross-cultural understanding
   • Perils of monoculturalism
   • Christianity versus culture
4. Awareness of and appreciation for national church/mission partnership
5. Commitment level equaling that of 19th century missionaries, who traveled overseas resolved to pay the ultimate price, if necessary, to see the church planted in new areas
   • "Commitment" by an African pastor
   • Photos of some past missionaries
6. Flexible commitment to a world region or to a group of peoples, with willingness to move and adjust with changing political situations

From Marching to a Different Drummer by Jim Raymo, Christian Literature Crusade, © 1996

The MAWL cycle

As cross-cultural missionaries today pioneer a work and then get a church planting movement started, they usually follow the MAWL leadership cycle:

1. Model
2. Assist
3. Watch
4. Leave

The world as one village of a hundred people

Into what kind of arena do these missionaries go? The world can be graphically described as if it were a village of one hundred people.[ read more ]

SNU missions course materials and syllabi

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