


The Three Key Questions to Ask a Sending Organization
Last week, I got off a phone call with a well-known Christian foundation that would like to fund churches being planted among unreached people/language groups. The individual I was talking with was lamenting that they had given millions of dollars to “missions,” but...
Finishing Well: The Essential Mindset For Pioneer Church Planters
Years ago (2005-2008), as I and the other co-founders of what is now known as Radius International were laying out the values that would guide this endeavor, there were many concerns about the missions landscape at that time that we wanted to address. In doing so we...
Don’t Overlook the Unreached
The Lost Coin In Luke 15 Jesus tells the story of a woman who has lost a coin and sweeps her entire house looking for it. It’s clearly not a large coin. It’s clearly not laying in the middle of the floor. It’s probably a smaller coin—somewhere in a corner. Reflecting...
Short-Term Missions: The Key to Mobilization?
For more than a decade now, I have been involved in mobilizing churches to send long-term workers primarily to places where Christ is not known. Most of these churches have already sent multiple short-term missions (STM) teams to different parts of the world. Three...