“If everything is missions, nothing is.” So said the Scottish missionary Stephen Neill. Wonderfully, ours is a day in which gospel-centered ministry and missions have returned to the forefront of conversations…

As a young ministry intern, my boss took me to a large Central Asian city. We participated in a missionary training conference for those who had served on the field for over ten years. We heard a challenging exposition of Romans 10 about the power of preaching God’s Word in Christian ministry, but…

A good friend of mine attended a mission conference as a university student. She knew very little about missions at the time, and as she listened to the talks, attended breakouts, and spoke with various mission agencies, she became overwhelmed with the task's urgency…

When I was a kid, my grandparents flew out to meet us for a vacation ‘halfway’ between America and Central Asia, where we lived. We met in beautiful Cyprus…

A young couple, fairly new to the church and largely unknown, asked to meet with the elders. Much to the elders’ surprise, the couple informed them that they were going to be missionaries…

My friend, the newly installed pastor of a dying downtown church, faced such withering problems he fretted that he was destined to go down with the ship….

I find it both encouraging and convicting that Matthew 28:18-20 doesn't come with a qualification based on the size of a church's membership or budget. The Great Commission is the joyful privilege of all churches…

Are mission agencies essential? No. Are mission agencies helpful? They certainly can be…

I remember meeting Ashley. She was a young missionary who came to work a two-year term with a team close to us in Central Asia. She loved Jesus and earnestly desired to share the gospel and serve others…

Pete was brilliant. He had studied at one of the best schools in his home nation. He devoted himself to his campus ministry for several years. He knew his doctrine well…

We could hardly contain our excitement. My wife and I spent years preparing for this moment, and there we were, in a new country halfway across the world, far from everything familiar…

Let’s say you are the owner of a company that made widgets. If you wanted to open a new widget manufacturing facility in a different country, how would you decide who to send to lead the efforts to build and run your new facility? Your ideal leader would…