ENCOUNTERING MISSION 2- CHANGING FACE...

Christianity Today 2006 Book Award Winner; Outreach magazine Year's Best Award Winner, 2005

'This work provides a good way to engage vital trends in missions today. . . . Missions-minded pastors, teachers, seminarians, and missiologists will certainly be informed by this significant work.'
--Keith E. Eitel, Evangelical Missions Quarterly

The latter part of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first have seen dramatic changes, both in global society and within the church. These changes have ramifications for the task of missions in the new millennium. The 'Changing Face of World Missions', the second volume in the 'Encountering Mission' series, identifies and interacts with twelve significant trends that today's student of missions needs to understand. These trends include globalization, changing demographics, the shift from modernity to postmodernity, the shift from Christendom to global Christianity, changing motivations for missions, the impact of new technologies, and the issue of contextualization. The text is enhanced by numerous sidebars and case studies to foster individual and group reflection and discussion.

Endorsements
'In a rapidly changing world, we can no longer carry out missions as usual. We need a renewed vision and new ways to reach a world in such desperate need. In this excellent book, Michael Pocock, Gailyn Van Rheenen, and Douglas McConnell relay the unchanging biblical foundations and renew our vision for missions. They also deal with urgent new challenges that confront us. In doing so, they help us both to analyze our world and our mission and to think deeply for ourselves, even as they call us to become involved in God's work in this world. This book can help all of us in the church grasp the nature and the importance of the mission God has given us in our day.'
--Paul G. Hiebert, distinguished professor of mission and anthropology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

'This is a fascinating book that challenges Christians, particularly evangelical Christians, to rethink what they mean by mission and how they put their commitment to spreading the gospel into practice. This is absorbing reading by thoughtful authors who make a real contribution to contemporary thinking about Christian mission.'
--Irving Hexham, professor of nature of religion, University of Calgary

'This is a well-conceived book, surveying and evaluating global developments as they influence and challenge evangelical missions worldwide. It is wide ranging, instructive, motivating, and rich in detail. This book is a commendable cooperative effort of three senior missionary leaders with rich cross-cultural experience and necessary expertise. I recommend it highly as a reliable and helpful guide to all who want to know more about our rapidly changing world and an effective Christian response to it.'
--Peter Kuzmic, Eva B. and Paul E. Toms Distinguished Professor of World Missions and European Studies, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Pages: 400