The East-West Mission Research and Development Center Asia Office (hereinafter referred to as the EWC Asia Office) began full-scale ministry in Chiang Mai, Thailand on November 15, 2017, with the goal “The Missionary movement of the Asian Churches”. Currently, a total of 4 missionaries, together with their families (Dr. Steve Eom, Dr. Charles Kim, Dr….
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GLOBAL FAMILY AND THE CORONAVIRUS
God is our refuge in times of troubles, and He is our defender, as well as our deliverer. Last week, the Asia Theological Association announced that Rev. Dr. Wilson Teo, a respected Singaporean church leader, senior pastor of Grace Assembly in Singapore, has been infected with Covid-19. To date, 16 cases linked to the congregation…
LANGUAGE HIERARCHY AND THEOLOGICAL DEPENDENCY
INTRODUCTION This paper will explore the influence of language hierarchy and linguistic appraisal on day-to-day ministry and on theological reflection in the Philippines arguing that, socio-economic values people ascribe to dominant languages promote theological dependency and complicate pastoral ministry. COLONIZATION AND MEDIUM-OF-INSTRUCTION POLICY During the American colonial period in the Philippines, the English language was…
EDITORIAL: TASKS OF KINGDOM WORKERS
Missionaries are called to live and work for the glory of God. The glory to God will be manifested when missionaries faithfully proclaim the rule of God over the universe and to every creature in it, and God’s will be done here on earth, as it is in heaven. The tasks of missionaries must not…
THE CULTURE OF MISSIONS: CHOOSING TO BE MISTREATED
INTRODUCTION If one were to scan the globe in order to evaluate the health of world missions, there would no doubt be many good reasons to celebrate, as the Gospel is clearly moving forward in significant ways. But a closer look would also reveal that mission organizations, local teams on the field, and more than…
WHY RECONCILIATION IS THE GREATEST CHALLENGE FOR THE KOREAN CHURCH TODAY
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.” (2 Cor 5:18-20) THE AGONY OF A DIVIDED KOREA June 25,…
THE BRIDGES OF GOD: Exploring the Strategic Significance of Near-Cultural Mission
INTRODUCTION In 1974, Ralph Winter introduced the paradigm of his now famous e-scale. The idea behind the scale is that there are degrees of cultural distance which separate reached peoples from unreached peoples. The most extreme distances are categorized as E3, which would be like a Norwegian taking the gospel to the pygmies in the…
MIGRATION AND MISSION: The Asia Missions Association’s 13th Triennial Convention
In 2013 it was in Incheon, S. Korea. In 2016, it was in Manila, Philippines and this year 2019, it happened in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The 13th Triennial Convention of the Asia Missions Association was held in Thailand last November 11-15, 2019 with the theme MIGRATION AND MISSION taken from Acts 8:4. Chiang Mai City,…
EDITORIAL: MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION
“All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” (2 Cor. 5:18-19) People try to avenge the sins of…
MISSIONARY CAREER TRANSITION
Today, Missionary Career Transition is an urgent task that needs to be addressed not only by individual missionaries, but also by the Korean Church as a whole. Recently, we have witnessed an increased number of missionaries who have been expelled from their mission fields. Not only that, uncontrollable circumstances such as family death and sickness,…