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About the Authors
Steve Hoke (Ph.D., Michigan State) is vice president of people development at Church Resources Ministries (CRM) which allows him to mobilize, equip and encourage front-line cross cultural workers and mission teams to minister with Spiritual Authority in the difficult places of our world.
Bill Taylor (Ph.D., University of Texas) is global ambassador and senior mentor with the World Evangelical Alliance’s Mission Commission. He taught for sixteen years at Seminario Teologico Centro Americano in Guatemala City.
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Table of Contents
Beginning Your Journey to the Nations: A Personal Fitness Assessment
Introduction: What Does It Take to Be Prepared?
Phase One: Getting Ready
1. Personal Spiritual Formation
2. Discovering Your Ministry Identity in the Body of Christ
3. Exposure to Other Cultures
4. Critical Issues in Schooling and Support Raising
Phase Two: Getting There
5. Church and Agency Connecting and Courting
6. Ministry Role and Assignment Search
7. Hands-On Missionary Training
Phase Three: Getting Established
8. Lifelong Learning
9. Finishing Strong and Well
Appendix 1: Resources
Appendix 2: Bibliography
Appendix 3: Three Small-Group Leader’s Guides
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This guide also includes material on the latest development and issues in mission, such as:
• the uniqueness of Jesus in global religious pluralism
• globalization and culture
• spiritual formation in the cross-cultural crucible
• incarnational evangelism and contextualized church planting
• international justice and commercial sex workers
• to global poverty, HIV/AIDS and malaria
• business as mission, health care, and community development
• Real-life vignettes and stories of people engaged in costly mission around the world. Global South mission leaders answer questions such as, “Is there still a role for missionaries from the West?” And it is filled with real-life examples of people mobilizing for mission around the world.
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Reviews
“This is not a book to be read in one sitting; it is richly and profoundly more!”
--RALPH D. WINTER, Founder, US Center for World Mission
“Do you want to go somewhere and do something that counts for God? If so, this book will help you count the cost and weigh your options.”
--FLOYD MCCLUNG, All Nations, South Africa
“Nothing like this handbook exists to date, and it fills a huge hole in the missionary training process.”
--MONROE BREWER, president, The National Association of Missions Pastors
“The combination of topics, authors and approaches stands alone as comprehensive compendium related to cross-cultural action.”
--PAUL BORTHWICK, senior consultant, Development Associates International
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