Global Missiology English

William D Taylor, Leading from Below: Lessons from the Crucible of Global Mission

J. N. Manokaran — 2025-07-24

The author, William D. Taylor, has served as a global mission leader, having been the General Secretary of the Mission Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship for three decades. Earlier, he served as a cross-cultural missionary in Latin America. With his rich experiences, education, and reflection on his life and the global changing context, he has written this book. The author considers the readers who could benefit as short-term missionaries, long-term missionaries, entrepreneurs or starters, builders, and those who wish to use their skill sets in a cross-cultural context.

Emanuel Prinz, What Actually Starts Movements: Partnering with God for Kingdom Multiplication

J. Nelson Jennings — 2025-07-24

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Factors That Contribute to or Impede Movements

Emanuel Prinz — 2025-07-24

This article reports on the first-ever empirical study of factors that either contribute to or impede the catalyzing of movements. The study administered a survey among 307 pioneer missionaries across 38 countries and conducted 45 in-depth interviews. Survey participants rated 21 items in terms of their significance in contributing or impeding. The data analysis shows that contributing and impeding items map onto five factors that align with existing conceptual categories, most notably effective ministry strategy. The findings show that the factors with the most significant impact on movement outcomes are primarily internal, such as ministry strategy or managing time constraints, whereas external factors such as societal opposition or prior openness to the gospel have a lesser impact. This distinction carries major implications for missionary strategy. Practitioners need to be educated on the nature of these factors and should be equipped to develop effective ministry strategies, take charge of their own personal growth and competency development, deal with team character issues and conflict, build capacity, and mitigate the impacts of external opposition.

COMIBAM at the IV Lausanne Congress: A Reflection on Missionary Collaboration

E. J. Fonseca — 2025-07-24

The IV Lausanne Congress brought together over 5,000 Christian leaders from around the world, including significant participation from the workplace sector. Among them were more than 400 Latinos, along with thousands of people connected virtually, in an effort to promote unity and the mission of the global church in a challenging and complex context. COMIBAM was represented by the Board of Directors, members of the National Missionary Cooperations, the executive team, its executive director Cristian Castro, as well as denominational and church leaders who participate in the missionary movement from their pastoral roles. This article presents an overview of the main topics addressed during the seven days of the event, concluding with a missiological reflection on the role of the Ibero-American movement.

Jesus’s Compassionate Urgency for Evangelism and Missions: Veterinary Medicine Informs Understanding Matthew 9:36

Richard W. Penn — 2025-07-24

Bible scholars can sometimes gain useful insights from scholars in other realms of knowledge. This article presents that that is the case with respect to a common health problem of sheep. Grasping this matter opens a new vista on the great urgency of evangelism and missions.

Editorial

J. Nelson Jennings — 2025-07-24

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Call for Papers for April 2026 Special Issue: "Witness Amidst Confessional Plurality and Nationalism"

GME Editorial Team — 2025-07-24

The April 2026 issue of Global Missiology - English will take up the vexing reality of multiple Christian traditions co-existing amidst nationalistic contexts. The fact that there are myriad Christian traditions has been explored, explained, and even justified. Even so, Christians can be perplexed as to why that reality not only persists but seemingly grows more complex. Moreover—and arguably more importantly—people outside the Christian faith cannot help but ask why Christian groups cannot agree with each other, further inhibiting their interest in the Christian gospel. Taken together with what appear to be a rising number of nationalistic settings that both demand ultimate loyalty and do not wish for competing religious groups. how Christian groups can best give appropriate witness to Jesus Christ within settings of confessional plurality and nationalism is a widespread and practical challenge. Proposed titles with approximately 100-word abstracts are due August 31, 2025. Full manuscripts of approved paper proposals will be due January 31, 2026.