Narratives

February 12, 2014 Kathy 0

The seven narratives available for download individually on this page are also available as a book, Where There Was No Church: Postcards from Followers of Jesus in the Muslim World, E.J. Martin, ed. It is available in paperback, ePub, or […]

Judicious Intercessor

February 12, 2014 Kathy 0

Judicious Intercessors emphasize prayer and fasting along with cultural sensitivity. They are more likely than other segments to indicate priority practices of praying for the needs of friends in their presence and of regularly engaging in corporate prayer and fasting. […]

Fruitful Practice Research

February 12, 2014 Kathy 0

Fruitful Practice Research is a multi-agency team studying the activities that promote the emergence, vitality, and multiplication of fellowships of Jesus followers in a Muslim context. You are welcome to download and use any of the materials on this site, […]

Orality Overcomer

February 12, 2014 Kathy 0

Orality Overcomers frequently use culturally appropriate Bible passages in their Gospel communication. However, they tend to de-emphasize Bible study. This combination points to an emphasis on oral communication methods. Members of this segment typically work with those for whom traditional […]

Trade-language Strategist

February 12, 2014 Kathy 0

Trade-language Strategists are easily distinguished from other segments because they do not emphasize ministering in a heart language, nor do they strongly pursue language fluency. Trade-language Strategists tend to live and work in settings with multiple peoples, languages and faiths. […]

Fruitful Practices in Contextualization

February 12, 2014 Kathy 0

Fish, Bob, and Gene Daniels. “Fruitful Practices in Contextualization.” Chap. 8 in Global Mission: Reflections and Case Studies in Contextualisation for the Whole Church, edited by Rose Dowsett, 77-84. Pasadena: William Carey Library, 2011. Fish and Daniels discuss fifteen practices for […]

First half of new partnership study now available

February 12, 2014 Kathy 0

Attachment Size Hits Last download Attachment Size Exec Summary–FP Survey of Workers in the Muslim World.pdf 200.35 KB FP Survey of Workers in the Muslim World.pdf 6.03 MB SSA_layered report_FINAL_corrected.pdf 1.04 MB

Describing Fruitful Practices: Relating to Society

February 12, 2014 Kathy 0

Daniels, Gene. “Describing Fruitful Practices: Relating to Society.” International Journal of Frontier Missiology 27, no. 1 (2010):21-26. In the continuation of a series started in IJFM issue 26:3, Gene Daniels provides descriptions and examples of fruitful practices for workers as […]

Discerning Fruitful Practices in Evangelism

February 12, 2014 Kathy 0

Greenlee, David. “Discerning Fruitful Practices in Evangelism.” Proceedings of the Fifth Lausanne Researchers Conference. Geelong, Australia, 2008. In this paper, the author describes an etic approach to fruitful practice research. Rather than asking those who have come to faith to […]