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February 08, 2005

Brazilians to Burkina

It looks like we will be getting two new missionaries joining Steve in Djibo very soon. The two are part of the "Radical Project" of Missão Horizontes, the Latin American branch of World Horizons' facilitating Latin American missionaries into the 10-40 window.

We are finding that these guys are generally excellent - passionate in prayer, zealous in evangelism, compassionate, and effective at getting alongside people and building bridges to Islam. The journal EMQ (Evangelical Missions Quarterly) did an interesting article on their training, which includes 3 years in preparation, and 2 years on the field. The plan is to send 300 more missionaries to the 10-40 window over the next couple of years.

Much of their approach is indeed radical and exciting, and reflects the reality that, as the worldwide church is increasingly "non-western," the mission force is also more and more from "non-western" and "developing" countries such as Brazil, Korea, and India. Often these countries are less hindered by the materialistic concerns of the western church, and have a passion that we sadly lack. They face their own cultural and financial issues of course, and are not able to follow old western models of missionary work, and so it is exciting to see new, radical approaches being developed.

It'll be great to have them on board in Burkina.

Posted by Keith at February 8, 2005 10:23 AM

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Posted by: tony sheng at February 8, 2005 04:11 PM