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Continuing the series on the book Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore, today we’re going to wrap-up the section of the book titled “Conflicting Images: Americans’ vs. Nationals’ Perspectives on Short-Term Missions” with the chapter “Simplicity: You’re Either for Us or Against Us!” Here are some [...]
Read full post...We’re still rolling through the series on the book Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore. We’re in the section of the book titled “Conflicting Images: Americans’ vs. Nationals’ Perspectives on Short-Term Missions.” Today’s chapter is called “Money: They’re So Happy.” Money always gets people riled up, [...]
Read full post...I hope everyone had a good weekend. We’re going to get right down to brass tacks, continuing the series on the book Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore. The section of the book we’re discussing is “Conflicting Images: Americans’ vs. Nationals’ Perspectives on Short-Term Missions” and [...]
Read full post...I’m still on my short-term missions soapbox, discussing the book Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore. I’m still in the section of the book titled, “Conflicting Images: Americans’ vs. Nationals’ Perspectives on Short-Term Missions.”
Today I’m pulling highlights from the chapter, “Common Ground: They Don’t Fly Planes [...]
I’m in the middle of a book report on Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore. I got so much out of the book that I’m doing a “brain dump,” chapter by chapter, of my favorite take-aways. Today I’m continuing the section of the book titled, [...]
Read full post...This week (truthfully, the next couple of weeks) I’m blogging on the book Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore. Today I’m going to begin discussing the section of the book called, “Conflicting Images: Americans’ vs. Nationals’ Perspectives on Short-Term Missions.”
Livermore uses several chapters to demonstrate the [...]
Continuing the series on the book Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore, today’s topic is “Globalization and the Church.”
In this section of the book Livermore discusses global trends such as the world’s growing population, poverty, disease, displaced peoples, “McWorld,” fundamentalism and pluralism. Many of the facts [...]
