by Dean Miller | Mar 15, 2017 | Opinion
Short-term mission teams are often criticized. Those who question this approach can cite plenty of evidence: projects left undone, harmful things said or done by volunteers, concepts of superiority and privilege that ooze from team members, undue stress created when...
by Angela Sudermann | Mar 14, 2017 | Opinion
God has been using health professionals to advance the mission of Christ through American Baptist International Ministries (IM) since 1821 when Dr. Jonathan Price arrived in Burma. Today, long- and short-term missionaries continue to express the gospel in ministries...
by Gary Snowden | Mar 9, 2017 | Opinion
Mission work in Guatemala has been part of my ministry for more than a decade. My interest dates back to 2005 when Bobby Perry, a Churchnet colleague, and I traveled there to meet with Guatemala Baptist Convention leaders. We inquired how we as a fledgling Baptist...
by Brian Howell (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | Sep 26, 2014 | Opinion
This past summer, as I waited for my plane in Tegucigalpa, I browsed one of the airport’s many gift shops looking for something for my 14-year-old son and found, among the soccer jerseys and dried toads, a bright orange T-shirt emblazoned with a colorful bus and...
