Raise your hand if you like to be humiliated. No? How about the brunt of your neighbors’ jokes. Doesn’t sound appealing? Hmmm … are you sure you want to move overseas? Human nature tells us to defend our position, fight for honor and be the man who comes out on top. Yet Mentanna Campbell reminds [...]
“If you build it, they will come.” These words can inspire hope and determination. Do you remember the movie? This quote from “Field of Dreams” with Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones may immediately flash across your mental movie screen visions of baseball, corn fields and a row of car headlights zig-zagging into the dark as far [...]
Think God may be calling you to connect with people in your urban area? Not sure? Mosaic Nashville is challenging people with 30 experiments to join God at work in their city and share about the results. A few of the 30: Join people in their social activities: Go cheer for a student at a sporting event, [...]
Many a list has been made for books on missional living, the missional church conversation, etc., etc. We want to know. What are your top 3 most influential books for cross-cultural missions? This certainly includes books written specifically with the missional church in the West in view, but lest we leave missions out of missional, [...]
A coach, a farmer, a businessman, a teacher–these among other occupations can be perfect platforms for individuals to step onto the mission field. How you describe a missionary may look like the profile of Lottie Moon or Hudson Taylor. Yet Larry McCrary challenges us to see how TCK teachers and teachers in national schools can be what are [...]
Home is where the heart is. Or is it where you lay your head–or maybe where you hang your hat? For many people who relocate (multiple times) to an international context for the sake of the Gospel, the question, “Where are you from?” can be a bit more complicated to answer than anyone ever intended. [...]
By now, unless you have been living under a rock, you have been made aware of Kony, the LRA, and the horrible atrocities he has perpetrated in central Africa through the Kony 2012 Campaign organized by Invisible Children. As of this writing the video has been viewed 58,721,112 times. And with all of this attention, [...]
I’ll spare you some of the “LinCredible” “LinSanity” phrases, spurred by Jeremy Lin’s popularity, which have shown up on poster boards and in media headlines lately. Some have noted Lin is not only a talented basketball player, but also a public follower of Jesus. Between 2000 and 2010 the Asian population in the United States grew by [...]
Five years, 50 cities. This is the vision GEM has taken on as they set their focus on key European locations: to see multiple generations of disciples established in 50 cities across the continent. Stories like that of Sahim, an immigrant to one of these cities, sheds hope on what God is already doing in [...]
Sometimes stepping back across the pond can be as disorienting as the initial trip over. {Upstream’s Larry McCrary writes about his own re-entry experiences here and here regarding his extended visit to the United States (Tennessee) after living in multiple European countries.} People are likely to experience a good deal of re-entry culture shock when they return to the United [...]
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