By Dave Baylor, on February 17th, 2010
It is about 40 days after the resurrection of Jesus. Acts 1:3, tells us that Jesus used the time between His resurrection and His ascension back to the Father to teach His disciples more about the Kingdom of God. Near the end of this time, Jesus gave His disciples what is now popularly called the [...]
By Dave Baylor, on January 2nd, 2010
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Yesterday evening (New Years Day), I watched one of my favorite movies, End of the Spear. If you have not seen it, you need to. The movie centers on the events and aftermath surrounding the tragic loss of 5 missionaries in the Ecuadorian jungle in 1956 during an attempt to bring [...]
By Dave Baylor, on October 14th, 2009
As you know from my last post, my family and I are currently attending pre-field training at Mission Training International in Palmer Lake, CO. This week we have been attending our final week of the PILAT (Program in Language Acquisition Techniques) program. During this week we have been learning about how to choose a language [...]
By Dave Baylor, on September 2nd, 2009
One of the stickier issues in mission circles is the use of indigenous languages versus a second language such as English. One of the groups involved in this discussion is the Alliance for Vulnerable Mission (AVM). Among other things they advocate the use of indigenous languages whenever possible (which I happen to [...]
By Dave Baylor, on August 6th, 2009
Martin, Jonathan. Giving Wisely: Killing with Kindness or Empowering Lasting Transformation? Sisters, OR: Last Chapter Publishing, 2008.
Generosity. How does one be truly generous? Is it merely a matter of giving money? Is there a right way and wrong to be generous? Is it possible to kill someone or something with generosity? These
are some of the [...]
By Dave Baylor, on July 9th, 2009
Livermore, David A. Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World (Youth, Family, and Culture). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009. ISBN# 978-0-8010-3589-0.
Cultural Intelligence is the second book in a Youth, Family and Culture Series edited by well known youth minister/educator Chap Clark at Fuller Theological Seminary. This second book is [...]
By Dave Baylor, on June 13th, 2009
Jesus entrusted His disciples (and that includes us) with the mission to “make disciples of all the nations (Mt. 28:19)” and to be His “witnesses (Acts 1:8)” at home and to the very ends of the earth. While this end goal may be clear, the specifics of how this is to be accomplished are less [...]
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