This paper asks the question: What does Jesus Christ give to Ru (Confucian) leaders that enables these leaders to re-envision, reform and revive their role as stewards of the Chinese people and to exercise their important responsibility of bringing the people’s concerns to the awareness of those working at the political center who establish and…
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STRATEGIC MISSIONS PARTNERSHIPS WITH CHURCHES FOR CHRISTWARD MOVEMENTS
Recent works have highlighted the fact that in spite the good and noble intentions, much of “foreign aid” including (and perhaps also mainly) those in missions have contributed to worse situations, particularly in the perpetuation of paternalism (for donors) and dependency (for beneficiaries) wherever such relationships occur (Schwartz 2007; Corbett & Fikkert 2009; cf. Everist…
EDITORIAL: MISSIONS AND RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
In missions, relationship building should be our passion. Missionaries should make developing relationships a priority, because ministries are not only about church growth, constructing facilities (schools, seminaries, churches, etc.), creating field projects and programs and others, but also about the daily build up of relationships with people. Relationship building takes time and most of it…
General Secretary’s Moving to Chiang Mai
Dr. Steve Kyeong-Seop Eom, General Secretary of EWC International, with his wife moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand on September 1, 2017 to facilitate and help the missionary movement of Asian churches through missions research, leadership development, and missionary care ministries. Cha Nam-Jun, Dr. Eom’s wife, has served Rodem Missionary Care Ministry in California as General…
NEW USA DIRECTOR
Dr. Sung-geol Chun has been appointed as EWC USA Director since August 1, 2017. He served as a missionary to Kazakstan with his wife, Dr. Eun Ah Cho, from 2000 to 2005. They got involved in church planting ministry. Dr. Chun also served Korean Global Leadership Institue as Director of Doctor of Missiology degree program…
NATIONAL REPORT: ASSESSING THE UNFINISHED TASK, ZIMBABWE
THE TARGET 2010 MOVEMENT From Church Survival to Strategic Advance, Zimbabwe was emerging from near civil war in the mid-1980`s. Church leaders began asking questions about the state of the Great Commission in their nation. No one actually knew whether the Body of Christ was advancing or losing ground. Times were tough and most churches…
MINISTRY REPORT: EAST-WEST CENTER FOR MISSIONS Research & Development
Dr. Steve Eom,General Secretary of the EWCmrd, and I, Dr. Timothy Park, President of EWCmrd, visited Bangladesh, Bhutan, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Macao from April 17 to May 8 to help facilitate the Asian missionary movement of the churches in the countries we visited. On May 15 to 24, I also visited Jordan and Egypt….
AFRICA IN MISSIONS: AFRICA DOING MISSIONS IN DIASPORA
INTRODUCTION The world in the past few decades has witnessed an unparalleled intensification of transnational migration. It has been estimated that by the mid-1990s, more than 100 million people would have taken up residence in countries different from the land of their birth (The Economist 1997, 81; Wiener 1996, 128). The process of globalization has…
AFRICAN MISSION LEADER SEARCHES FOR POSITIVES DESPITE DEADLY SURGE OF JIHADIST VIOLENCE
Attacks attributed to radical Islamic groups are happening on a weekly, or even daily, basis in Africa, posing security concerns across a vast swathe of the continent. The phenomenon has dramatically affected Church activities in various regions. But Rev. Reuben E. Ezemadu, Coordinator of the Movement for African National Initiatives (MANI), a grassroot African initiative…
MALAWIAN MISSIONS: RISING ABOVE LIMITATIONS
During His ascension to heaven, Jesus Christ commanded His disciples to go out and preach the Gospel. His command was quite obscure and not what the disciples had been expecting. They looked at themselves as doubters, fearful, unable to cast out demons, unable to stand the pressure of the pharisees and sadducees and yet Jesus…