Fall 2022 / 77th
1. URBAN MISSIONS TRANSFORMATION AND BANGLADESH
[Shankar Shikdar]
“Almost everyone wishes for the city they live in to be a secure, thriving, wonderful City (Crane 2015, p. 16).” My transformation started from the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh in 1986 soon after the completion of my secondary examination and later migrated to Dhaka in 2001, the capital city, for employment at Bangladesh Football Federation…
2. URBAN POOR MISSION
[Raineer Chu]
There are now more people living in cities than in rural areas. Millions migrate to cities everyday all over the world. The world has shifted radically from a rural agricultural population to an urban population because to many, cities are where the money and employment can be found…
3. THE PANDEMIC’S IMPACT ON URBAN CHURCHES IN CHINA TODAY
[David S. Lim]
The COVID-19 pandemic that struck the world from China caused several complete lockdowns of cities and regions in its country of origin. This article describes the main lessons that China’s urban churches – both the registered Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) churches and the unregistered “house church fellowships – have learned during this period since January 2020…
4. PLANTING IN ALL SEASONS: PERSONAL REFLECTION
[TonyVic Tira]
The ‘gateway to the north’, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is the northernmost metropolis of around one million people in the world. Growing up here, the city had a ‘small town’ feel. As a child, I could go a month without hearing a car horn, the American pop culture trends were popular here at least six months after they had gone out of fashion south of us and seeing people experiencing homelessness was completely foreign to me…
5. LEADERSHIP OR SERVANTHOOD?
[Hwa Yung]
Everywhere in the church today throughout the world there is this drumbeat of emphasis on leadership and leadership training. This is true of local and national churches, colleges and seminaries, youth groups and parachurch organizations, and so forth. And woe betide the pastor or institutional leader who fails to run leadership development programs of one sort or another…
6. HOUSE CHURCH PLANTING IN BASHKORTOSTAN, RUSSIA
[Christopher Carr]
The present study outlines nine three-hour training sessions designed to encourage and prepare Russian evangelical leaders and believers in Russia’s semi-autonomous Republic of Bashkortostan to adopt house church models for church planting, models that also may be described as organic or cell churches…
