Asian Missions Advance, 90 – Asia Missions Association

Asian Missions Advance Newsletter

Winter 2026 / 90th

1. Diaspora Mission: Glocal Mission and Mission at Our Doorstep

The purpose of this paper is to explore the practice of “diaspora mission” by combining “Glocal Mission” and “Mission at our Doorstep,” based on the phenomenon of movement of people at a large scale globally. For the sake of clarity, several key-terms are defined below:…

2. The Gospel from an Honor-Shame Perspective: An Evaluation and a Proposal

[Takaaki Hara]

There are at least three primary types of reactions to sin across human cultures: guilt, shame, and fear. These reactions are loosely associated with geographical regions. According to Jayson Georges, (1) guilt-innocence cultures are individualistic societies (mostly Western), where people who break the laws are guilty and seek justice or forgiveness to rectify a wrong,…

3. The Legacy of Colonialism on Understanding Cross-Cultural Mission

[Ryan Shaw]

Today the negative effects of historic colonialism are still impacting the global Church, specifically related to (1) the Gospel and (2) how cross-cultural mission is understood. Historically, while colonialism tended to be an oppressive system whereby a dominant country subjugated another people for their own gain, the mission movement sought to operate separately from colonialism. Yet, because missionaries often came from colonial power nations, the two were seen, and unfortunately often experienced, as dynamically connected…

4. Africa-Led Cross-Cultural Missions: Challenges and Triumphs

[Akinyemi Oluwafemi Alawode]

Once a mission field for European missionaries, Africa is gradually becoming a global mission force. Africa is a unique continent in the world, and it has a long history of missionary endeavours, starting from the early second century to the 18th and 19th centuries. Christians in Africa have realized their roles in the propagation of the gospel and in reaching their ethnic groups and others. The history of the Nigerian Church started with the advent of Portuguese traders…

5. The Power of the Tongue

[Lulu Tira]

“JESUS loves me.” These are the words , my seminary schoolmate who was experiencing depression, herself for over fifty times, as prescribed by her psychologist every time she went for therapy. Why such prescription? Because there is power when we speak. There is power of the tongue…

6. BOOK REVIEW: Tides of Opportunity

[Donna Castillo-Tan]

Human migration, or the movement of people from one place to another, is a complex human experience that can no longer be ignored or seen simply as changing locations. It calls for a deeper understanding. This phenomenon is dynamic in nature and global in scope. Crossing cultures and merging cultures are now so common that we often don’t even realize they’re happening. Human migration has certainly turned the tides of modern civilization…

7. The 15th Triennial Convention of The Asia Missions Association

[Asia Missions Association]

It is with great joy that we announce the upcoming 15TH TRIENNIAL CONVENTION OF THE ASIA MISSIONS ASSOCIATION (AMA), to be held at Onnuri Church, Incheon, Korea, from September 14~18, 2026. The theme of the Convention is “Gospel and the Future of Humanity.”…