The Foreign Missionary's Behavior

The Foreign Missionary's Behavior (III) - Ministry Magazine

Consideration. Nothing can so quickly ruffle one's feelings and wound one's spirit as a lack of consideration for his viewpoint. The foreign missionary is told ...

The Missionary and Cultural Shock - Christianity Today

If the missionary returns home at this stage, without adjusting to the cultural shock, without coming to terms with the changes in attitudes and behavior that ...

What is hard about life as a missionary?

The hardest thing about living on the mission field is probably getting along with the other missionaries. At times you may be stuck with these people 24/7.

The Messy Truth about Foreign Missions – The Burke Library Blog

Missionaries are associated with all the damage wrought by the project of subjugation, exploitation, displacement, and genocide of native peoples and cultures ...

What Makes Someone a Missionary? - Theology for the People

They were evangelizing – and when we told them we were Christians, they told us that they had come from somewhere in the Midwest as missionaries ...

Missions across cultures - Ministry Magazine

A cross-cultural missionary is one who leaves the comfort and familiarity of his or her culture to go to a place where the gospel needs to be presented. I was ...

Ten Problems Missionaries Face - Action International Ministries

1. Discouragement with results of witnessing, progress in churches, growth in converts, uncertainty about lasting ministry. · 2. Priorities of ...

Do Western Missionaries Damage Cultures? - TEAM

“Western” missionaries are the type who bring Western culture, including Christian culture, to other cultures. I was at a missions convention ...

The Untold Stories of Returned Missionaries - A Life Overseas

False Accusations. Depending on the country your missionary lived in, they might have been dealing with some false accusations from the ...

Foreign Christian Missionary Society - Wikipedia

Foreign Christian Missionary Society · To obey the will of God, · The belief that Christian work abroad might facilitate and awaken a missionary spirit in America ...

We Are Outsiders Sent Inside on Mission - IMB

Missionaries to foreign lands understand quite well (and quickly) that ministry among different peoples requires a profound change in the ...

The Missionary as a Good Foreigner - Sage Journals

is composed fifty percent of the word [oreigner, for at least half of the missionary task is being a good foreigner. Any society sets standards of conduct ...

How do I decide between becoming a missionary in a foreign ...

Although there was quite an emphasis on discovering your gifts, friendship evangelism, and power evangelism, the overseas vision seemed to be very dim even ...

Henry Kissinger and the Missionary Impulse in U.S. Foreign Policy

There is another domain, however, that has long been a repository for religious behavior on the part of Americans but that has for many decades, ...

Decoupling Missionary Advance from Western Culture - Missio Nexus

1. The de facto link between the gospel and Western culture has grown so strong that missionaries are now obliged to use what Carey called means—concrete ...

What is a Missionary? - Bethany Global University

They are immersed in the culture, ready to share the Good News of Jesus. Missionaries are cross-cultural Christian workers who share the love of ...

Exploring LDS Missionary Blogs: How Culture Manifests in Self

Furthermore, the theory argues that religious behavior and beliefs become embedded in a person's social behavior. This is why exploring blogging ...

Faithful Contextualization in Missions

For the missionary, the goal is to know the host culture well enough—understanding its heart language and heart idolatries—to communicate the ...

Mission to the Missiologists: The Protestant Foreign Missionary ...

Editors' Note: David A. Hollinger calls for scholars, and especially scholars of philanthropy, to engage with the history of missionaries ...

The Foreign Missionary Movement in the 19th and early 20th ...

In this context it was easy for American missionaries to conflate the Protestant responsibility to evangelize the world and the assumption that the U.S. was a ...