Resources: Christian missions and world evangelism

A Church for every people and the Gospel for every person

Open Educational Resource (OER) site

Southern Nazarene University -- fulfilling the Great Commission
Howard Culbertson, emeritus professor of missions and world evangelism

Want to learn more about Christian missions? Check out the pages on this site. Missionary case studies, internet links, world missions course materials, missionary-sending organizations, and more.

• An appropriate humility Devotional reflections on the book of Job along with the story of Gladys Aylward, missionary to China
• Feeling you might be called to Christian missionary service?
  • Ten ways to avoid becoming a missionary: . . . Ignore Jesus' words . . .
  • Is God calling you to global missionary service? Seek the counsel of mature Christians.
• Missions music suggestions
• Giving of yourself to world evangelism in short-term missions trips
  
  • Fundraising principles
  • Fundraising ideas you can use
  • Re-entry Problems
  • Tenways to ruin your mission trip

Introductory missions book

Discovering Missions
by Charles Gailey and Howard Culbertson

Biblical basis of missions, mission history, short-term missions, the missionary call, culture, globalization of the church and of the missionary force, mobilizing a local church for world missions, and a peek into the future

Order from The Foundry or from online discount booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

Free teaching resources: If you use Discovering Missions as a course textbook, get free teaching resources (PowerPoints, case studies, crossword puzzles, exam questions, video suggestions) on Google Drive. Or, email me and I will send you all that material on a CD.

• Nazarene Missions International: Ideas and tips for uses in local churches to generate world missions vision, prayer, finances, and world missionary recruits for the global harvest .
  • Compassionate Ministry
  • Susan Fitkin, NMI founder
  • Deputation services
  • Our greatest challenge
  • NMI Objectives
  • NMI history
  • Nazarene missions history
  • Missionary Medical Plan
  • Monthly emphasis suggestions
  • Missions vision and passion in two local churches
  • 10/40 Window map and explanation
  • Nazarene Missions Teams (formerly Work & Witness)
• SNU
  • General Education and Adult Studies courses taught by Howard Culbertson
  • What the Southern Nazarene University religion faculty believes and teaches

Video: "Making disciples in all nations" (13 minutes)

Who am I?

More than three decades ago Barbara and I came back to the USA from Haiti for what we thought would be a one-year "home assignment" or furlough. Southern Nazarene University knew that I had just finished a D.Min. in cross-cultural Christian missions from Denver Seminary. So, SNU asked if I would serve as the "Garner Chair of Missions" professor for that year, teaching classes on world evangelism and Christian missions while I also traveled to local churches promoting a global vision. That was in 1988.

Well, 25 years later when I retired, I was still there, teaching missiology or Christian missions, caring for the Missionary Kids who were SNU students, and directing world missions outreach projects, including Work & Witness projects. I spent most of the 90s as district Nazarene Missions International (NMI) president for the Nazarene churches of Northwest Oklahoma. My focus has been, and is the global harvest. I am still teaching online classes for Nazarene Bible College (USA) and European Nazarene College. I taught online for Northwest Nazarene University for a dozen or more years and I've even taught a couple of online classes for Nazarene Theological Seminary (USA).

• Biography and photo
• Books and articles I've written

This website has materials and resources from my missions and world evangelism classes as well as from my promotional and mobilization work with Nazarene Missions International. There are also pages for General Education classes that I also taught:

• Introduction to Biblical Literature
• Christian Thought
• Ministry, Church and Society

"Missiology? What does that mean?"
Missiology is the study of cross-cultural, global missionary outreach. It looks at every aspect of missionary work.

NILI Ecuador YouTube video about my experience in a semester-abroad program where students learned Spanish

"Thanks for posting all this material from your courses." — retired professor who visited this site

Top Ten Pages on This Site

The Top Ten pages drawing visitors to this website as reported by Google in a recent period are:

1. Data on Bible chapters
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6. Is Satan Real?
7. Word Search: People Mentioned Most Ofen in the Bible
8. William Borden and World Missions
9. Sample Mission Trip Fundraising Letters
10. Zaccahaeus' Encounter with Jesus

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3. Classic World Missions Songs and Hymns
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5. Acculturation and Enculturation: Ways of Learning a Culture
6. Nazarene Alabaster Offering for World Missions
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Quotations from sacred scripture: Unless otherwise noted, all passages from the Bible quoted on this site are from the New International Version