Based in Managua, reaching out to Nicaragua: Christ for the City International.
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 [...]
Today I’m starting a series of posts on the book Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore. As I wrote on Saturday, if you’re involved in cross-cultural ministry, short-term missions, or if you just have an interest in reaching the world for Christ while avoiding the mistakes [...]
Read full post...I had the perfect Saturday morning this weekend. I discovered my new favorite coffee shop and I finished a great book that’s really challenging my thinking on cross-cultural ministry and short-term missions. The book is Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore. I got so much out [...]
Read full post...I had the perfect Saturday morning today. I discovered my new favorite coffee shop and I finished a great book that’s really challenging my thinking on cross-cultural ministry and short-term missions. The book is Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore
I got so much out of [...]
