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Mission Nation Publishing Company, an online company begun in January 2016, published its first title, The Resilient Missionary, the story of Yohannes Mengsteab, who was raised in Eritrea, evangelized by Swedish missionaries in Sudan, and sent to the United States to plant churches. He started six African immigrant churches in the Washington DC–Baltimore, MD area […]

Editors of the online Dictionary of African Christian Biography are publishing a selection of stories as the Journal of African Christian Biography, which will “make African Christian biographies more readily accessible and immediately useful in African congregations and classrooms,” said Jonathan J. Bonk, the JACB editor. Published in monthly installments with an annual cumulative volume

Appointed. Biblical scholar and author M. Daniel Carroll R. (Rodas) as Blanchard Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, as of July 1, 2016. He was a distinguished professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary, Denver, CO, and has been an adjunct professor at El Seminario Teológico Centroamericano in Guatemala

Charity Reeb, Charles M. Hermans, and Christina S. Simmers This qualitative study examines paradigms of the definition of mission as held by high-levelAssembly of God pastors and missionary leaders. The study reveals that thetwo groups differ in their definition of mission. In the church, pastors generally feelthat “mission” encompasses outreach to all people groups; missionaries,

Stefan Paas and Alrik Vos Church planting is often seen as the best way to grow the church numerically.However, there is surprisingly little research examining this claim in any detail, andthe research that exists turns out to be not very well-founded or unclear in termsof sources, definitions, and so forth. Recently, research has been conducted

Robin Boyd Born in Belfast, Robin Boyd studied there and in Dublin, Edinburgh, and Basel. Ordainedin the Irish Presbyterian Church, he served the Student Christian Movement and in1954 went to India (Gujarat), becoming a presbyter of the nascent (1970) Church ofNorth India. In 1974 he moved to Melbourne, Australia, and ministered in a parishof the

Diane B. ObenchainIntroducing World Religions: A Christian Engagement Luis N. Rivera-PagánSin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560–1650 Robert HurteauThe Prophet of Cuernavaca: Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West Tite TiénouThe Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora: Imagining the Religious “Other.” Book Notes, July 2016

Appointed. Ed Stetzer to The Billy Graham Distinguished Endowed Chair for Church, Mission,and Evangelism, a newly created chair at Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, effective July 1, 2016. As executive director of the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College, he will lead Wheaton’s existing programs, start new initiatives including creating a National Evangelism Leaders

The United States Catholic Mission Association will hold its 2016 conference October 28–30, at the Holiday Inn Cincinnati (Ohio) Airport; the theme is “Together in Mission: Celebrating Concrete Expressions of Missionary Discipleship Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” The plenary speakers will be Julie Lupien, executive director of From Mission to Mission, Longmont, CO, and Bill Vos,

Died. Kenneth E. Bailey, 85, research scholar, author, Presbyterian career missionary and lecturer in Middle Eastern New Testament studies, May 23, 2016, in Grove City, Pennsylvania. Bailey was ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He spent forty years (1955–95) living and teaching in seminaries and institutes in Egypt, Lebanon, Jerusalem, and Cyprus.For twenty of those