The letters Paul wrote to Timothy are primarily grouped with the letter to Titus and called the Pastoral Epistles. The implication of the title is the letters were written to a pastor serving in a local church in Ephesus. Yet, Timothy is never called a pastor. He is called away …
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This study uses a qualitative, case study approach to understand the reflections of North American missionaries in Asia regarding their training and equipping for cross-cultural missions. For this study, seventy-five long-term missionaries from over twenty-five sending organizat…
This dissertation examines the experiences of four southern African missionary art programs. The four, Grace Dieu and Rorke's Drift in South Africa, and Cyrene and Serima in Rhodesia (as well as their offshoots) pioneered art education for Africans in the region. Art emerging fr…
This Ministry Focus Paper is to develop a comprehensive strategy for planting a church cross-culturally in Almaty, Kazakstan. The early church was slow in obeying the great commission of the Lord to make disciples of all nations. It reached out only to the Jews until there was a…
Armenian villagers inhabited Musa Dagh, a mountain situated some 20 kilometers to the southwest of the biblical town of Antioch, from time immemorial. They would have been relegated to oblivion as an insignificant lot had Franz Werfel not immortalized their saga during the 1915 …
The purpose of the project was to determine if nine and ten year old children at a public school in Mexico could learn biblical knowledge by being taught four lessons. Both cognitive and affective change were measured. The challenge for the American researcher was to cross the a…
This study has been carried out on the assumption that the Korean church needs to overcome the biased attitudes towards the understanding and practice of mission which has been formed by the influence of such complex factors as socio-political cultural situations and theological…
Henry Jessup and the American Presbyterian Mission to Syria faced a new challenge in 1885 when the Ottoman authorities closed various American schools there. Jessup, the Secretary of the American mission, responded with a rhetorical campaign against the Ottoman impositions that …
This dissertation surveys Korean Baptist missionaries' work in Kazakhstan and recommends some effective strategies for twenty-first-century missions for Korean missionaries. The writer presents major emerging issues in world evangelization and explains the need for the study in …
The work of the hospital at Jibla can be divided into four main phases the formation of the hospital, the years of unrestricted ministry, years of resistance, and finally the close of the hospital. The formation of the hospital was an exciting time for Southern Baptists. The arr…
This dissertation presents the history of the evangelical Christian movement as a dynamic faith movement that developed outside the structure of the established Ethiopian Orthodox Church and thereby highlights the historicity of the new dimension of Christianity by offering a co…
This dissertation explores the career of a pioneer, eighteenth-century Lutheran missionary, Benjamin Schultze, specifically, his work in the Danish-Halle Tranquebar Mission and in the "English Mission" of Madras. Schultze's visionary leadership, evangelistic commitments and ling…
Spiritual Care for Missionaries Within the Ministry Context of Make Way Partners is the report of a research project. The objective of this project was to study the spiritual care of missionaries within the ministry context of Make Way Partners (MWP). The ministry context of MWP…
For several decades historians have struggled with the dynamics of cross-cultural contact and the creation of perceptions of the "other". Detailed studies of the European image of the Islamicate world during the pre-modern period rarely analyze why and how these representations …
Constructing a new identity is at the heart of this study. It develops a system of cultural identity by utilizing collective memory theory and a translation model of critical contextualization to analyze Kazak Christian practices. The reconstituted memory is integrated with cont…
Models of healthy mission endeavors in the area of leadership development and leadership transfer are critical in training future missionaries to enter a new field. Missionaries must be able to recognize and disciple local leaders, then turn over the work to them in a healthy an…
American Protestant missionaries have been active in the Middle East since the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th Century. Their presence has had a notable impact on international relations. Prior to World War I, missionaries were the greatest American interest in the regi…
This dissertation examines the missional implications of teaching regarding Israelite interactions with Gentiles found in the Hebrew Scriptures. Chapter 1 defines what is meant in this study concerning mission and Israelite interactions with Gentiles. In addition, foundation is …
William Carey (1761-1834) and a printer from Derby--William Ward (1769-1823)--are central figures in discussions concerning missiology. Generally, the importance of Carey and Ward to the early formation of the Baptist Missionary Society (hereafter, BMS) and their ministry to Hin…