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• 10 ways to avoid becoming a missionary
• 10 ways to ruin your mission trip
• 10% Global Missions Giving in the Church of the Nazarene
• 10/40 Window / Circle of Significance and Worlds A, B, and C: Explanations and world maps
• 15 Important Chapters of the Bible

• A

• Academic success strategies plus statement on cheating
• Acrostics on this web site
• Alabaster: The Nazarene international building fund
• Alfredo Del Rosso biography in PDF format
• Alfredo Del Rosso: An Italian captivated by a vision (ebook)
  1: Introduction 2: If this be Pentecostalism 3: Out under the stars 4: The Nazarenes have landed and the situation is well in hand 5: Superintendent Del Rosso 6: Retirement? Not quite 7: Retirement? Finally
• Amateur radio inspirational thoughts
• Analyzing church statistical graphs
• Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed
• Apostles' missionary journeys (map in PDF format)
• Apple pickers parable
• Art Masterpieces as Content Illustrations
• Articles and books by Howard Culbertson
• Asian is not oriental (PDF format)
• Assimilating new people
• At what age do Americans become Christian? Pie chart by age groups
• Attendance policy for NBC online course
• Attendance reminder -- "Peanuts" cartoon (PDF format)
• Attitudes to Use in Approaching Bible Study
• Authors quoted on this website

• B

• Background and start of Nazarene global outreach
• Balloon animal instructions from Pioneer National Latex (sold at Walmart) -- PDF format
• Beginning Nazarene work in Croatia
• Bible at a glance
• Bible bloopers, trivia, and humor
• Bible course (introductory level)
• Bible passages on caring for the poor
• Bible passages on world missions: 500-word mini-essays published in Engage magazine
  • Genesis 1 — Genesis 1:1 (also Jonah 2:8, Acts 14:15, Romans 1:25, Revelation 4:11 and 14:7)
  • More than "a place in the country" — Genesis 12:1, 15:8 (also Exodus 19:6, Isaiah 42:6, 49:6 and Acts 13:47)
  • Blessed to be a blessing — Genesis 22:18 and Galatians 3:7 (also Genesis 3:15, 12:1-3, 17, 18, 22, Matthew 28:19-20, Galatians 3:8)
  • A call to mission at Sinai — Exodus 19:5-6 (also Genesis 12:1-3, 18:18, 22:18, 28:14, Exodus 28, Isaiah 49:6, 2 Corinthians 5:18, Galatians 3:7)
  • Loving all people -- even foreigners — Deuteronomy 10:19 (also Genesis 12:3 and 1 John 4:8)
  • Heart of God: Psalm 9:11 (also Psalm 18:49, Psalm 105:1, John 3:16, and Matthew 28:19-20)
  • Among the Nations — Psalm 18:49 (also Matthew 28:19-20)
  • Missions exist because worship doesn't — Psalm 48:10
  • Global hope — Psalm 65:5 (also Acts 1:8 and Colossians 3:12)
  • Recruiting for the heavenly choir — Psalm 68:32 (also Matthew 28:19-20 and Romans 10:14)
  • Keeping track of everyone — Psalm 87:6 (also Exodus 32:32, 1 Chronicles 16:24, Psalm 69:28, Matthew 24:14, Luke 12:7, and Revelation 7:9)
  • Make known among the nations — Psalm 105:1
  • From farthest East to farthest West — Psalm 113:3 (also Exodus 19, Psalm 50:12, Isaiah 45:6, 59:19, Matthew 28:19-20)
  • Proclaim to every island of the sea — Isaiah 24:15 and Isaiah 42:12
  • The way Isaiah ends — Isaiah 66:18-19 (also Isaiah 6:1-8, Isaiah chapters 7, 9, 11, 35, 40, 53 and 65, Matthew 28:19-20, Mark 16:15 and Acts 1:8)
  • Proclaim in the distant coastlands — Jeremiah 31:10 (also Isaiah 42:12 and Psalm 97:1)
  • Jonah's attitude problem — Jonah 1:2-3 (also Jonah 4:11)
    
  • For All Peoples — Zephaniah 3:9 (also Genesis 12:3, Psalm 16:4, Hosea 2:17, John 3:16, Acts 8, 10-11, 16, Romans 10:14 and Revelation 7:9)
  • Your Kingdom come — Matthew 6:10 (also Jonah 2:8, Matthew 9:38, and Matthew 28:19-20)
  • The Mustard Seed Parable — Matthew 13:32
  • No room for "all nations" — Mark 11:17 ( also Isaiah 56:7, Jeremiah 7:11, Mark 16:15, Acts 1:8, 1 John 2:2)
  • Signs of the coming End Times — Matthew 24:14
  • Missions declaration from the Cross? — Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34 ( also Psalm 22, Matthew 28:19-20) | en español
  • The Great Commission: Suggestion or Command? — Matthew 28:19-20 (also Genesis 12:3, Isaiah 49:6 and Revelation 7:9)
  • Tell everyone, everywhere — Mark 16:15 (also Matthew 28:19-20, Luke 24:46-48, John 20:21 and Acts 1:8)
  • Good News to all people — Luke 2:10 (also Joshua 2, Psalm 67:2, 98:2-3, Isaiah 49:6, 52:10 and Luke 2:30-32)
  • The heart of God: His Lost Sheep — Luke 15:4 (also Acts 1:8)
  • What's the hurry? — John 4:35 (also references to Matthew 9 and Luke 10)
  • I am sending you — John 20:21 (also Luke 19:10, John 1:14, Galatians 2:20, and Colossians 1:17)
  • Is missions first local and then global or all at once? — Acts 1:8 (also Matthew 28, Mark 16:15, Acts 8, Acts 15)
  • Carrying out God's plans — Acts 13:47 (also Isaiah 42:6, Matthew 28:19-20, Acts 1:8, and Galatians 3:7, 29)
  • Light to the Gentiles — Acts 13:47 (also Isaiah 42:6, 49:6, Matthew 28:19-20, Luke 2:28-32 and Acts 1:8)
  • How can they believe in whom they have not heard? — Romans 10:14 (also Romans 10:12 and Isaiah 52)
  • Unless they are sent — Romans 10:15 (also Luke 10:2, Acts 13:2, and Romans 10:9-10 and 15:24)
  • The Regions Beyond — 2 Corinthians 10:16
  • The Purpose Driven Life — Galatians 3:14 (also Matthew 28:19-20)
  • Looking across the finish line — Revelation 7:9 (also Genesis 11, 12:3, 22:18, Isaiah 49:6, Matthew 24:14 and Acts 1:8)
  • Revelation's Promise — Revelation 21:23-24 (also Genesis 12:3, 18:18, 28:14, Isaiah 60:3, John 8:12, Revelation 7:9, and 14:6)
• Bible storyline and key chapters
• Bible study principles
• Biblical demon possession and Haitian loa possession -- a comparison
• Biblical foundations for missions | PDF of Missions visualized in Scripture | view as PowerPoint
• Biblical Perspectives course resources
• Bibliography page -- Why? plus sample entries and documentation for information and quotations
• BibLit materials (Introduction to Biblical literature course at SNU)

  Due dates Exam study guides Bible memorization passages Bible reading assignment instructions

• Bingo - a cultural anthropology game
• Biographies of missionaries
• Biographies of Susan Fitkin by Melodie Sides and Stan Ingersol
• Biography: Harmon Schmelzenbach
• Biography: Howard Culbertson
• Biography: Wanda Knox
• Black history month: World mission involvement by Black Americans
• Blog: My sabbatical in South America
• Bread pledge for missions council leaders
• Bulletin insert for Faith Promise promotion (PDF format)
• Burning question form -- MCS (PDF format)
• Bwanda Fusa Challenge game discussion guide

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• Call to missions: How to know if you're called
• Canaan: strategic land bridge at Eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea
• Care & Connection: Your church's adopted missionaries
• Case studies -- In-depth looks at complex, multi-faceted issues faced in real-life contexts
  • A prank backfires -- Short-term cross- cultural mission team
  • Ancestral feast
  • Battling racism
  • Bible translation: Word for God
  • Bowing at the ancestors' tombs
  • Breakup of a missionary team
  • Buddha pedestals
  • Can a Christian celebrate Diwali?
  • Communal feast
  • Conflict during the Lord's Supper
  • Don't tell Shari: Conflict in a short-term mission team
  • Food offered to idols
  • Giving Jeff a thrill flirting on a short-term mission trip
  • Group conversion
  • Hindu / Christian marriage proposal
  • How should Bashir be buried?
  • Inappropriate touching
  • Kidnapped missionary
  • Lily Liu's baptism
  • Male stripper at birthday party
  • My son is marrying a Buddhist!
  • Obi's death
  • Onions and wives
  • Pastor under attack
  • Peacemaker or patsy
  • Sacrifice to the smallpox goddess
  • Salvage job: Short-term mission team (Youth in Mission)
  • Should I accept food that has been offered in worship
  • Sunday school class in decline
  • They only knew my name -- plugging into a local church
  • To drink or not to drink -- Being offered alcohol in France
  • Two case studies involving a Shinto shrine
  • When trust in a pastor erodes
  • Witnessing attempt
  • You must purify this house! (Nigeria)
  • Generic case study discussion guide
• Case Studies: A unique teaching tool (PDF format) | view at PowerPoint
• Checklist for local presidents -- Nazarene Missions International
• Choruses in various languages
• Christian conversion
• Christian Thought course resources
• Christianity versus culture -- positions taken
• Church as missionary
• Church health and growth course resources
• Church planting steps
• Classic scripture passages / historic missions slogans -- handout sheet (PDF format)
• Cliff's Notes on the Bible: The Bible in 50 words
• Collection Page Navigation Hub
• Commitment: An African pastor's statement
• Compassionate Ministries giving calendar for December
• Conflict: Strategies for Solving or at least Managing It
• Connection problems: NBC online statement
• Contract between professor and students
• Conversion of Hudson Taylor -- missionary to China in the 1800s
• Conversion of the Barbarians, 400-800 AD
• Conversion of the Vikings, 800-1200 AD
• Coping with Culture Shock
• Creative Access Countries -- places with legal and political barriers to overt Christian missionary work
• Creative Teaching Activities (PDF format)
• Cross-cultural Worship Service assignment -- Becoming a foreigner as a minority of one
• Crossword puzzles
  • Biblical Perspectives: Chapters 6-9 of textbook
  • Cultural Anthropology: Chapter 1 of Mirror for Humanity Chapters 2-4 of Mirror for Humanity Chapters 5-7 of Mirror for Humanity Chapters 8-10 of Mirror for Humanity Chapters 11-13 of Mirror for Humanity
    From Introducing Cultural Anthropology: Week 1 Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5
  • Introduction to Biblical Literature
    • Three dozen women of the Bible Puzzle solution
    • Bible mothers Puzzle solution
    • Bible study assignments:
      Chapters 1-2 Chapters 4-5 Chapter 6 Chapters 7-8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapters 24-25 Chapters 26-27 Chapter 28 Chapters 29-30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32
  • Intro to Christian Thought: People on exam 1 Material on exam 2
  • Introduction to Missions: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14
  • Ministry, Church and Society: Worldviews according to Sire Chapters 3-4 of Peculiar People
  • Listing of Word Puzzles
  • Missions history: Two puzzles
  • World Religions: Textbook and field trips
• Cultivating relationships through which people come to know Christ (PDF format)
• Cultural Anthropology Alphabet (PDF format)
• Cultural Anthropology course resources
  • Outside reading report form (PDF format)
  • Cultural Bingo
  • Culture
  • Culture Shock: coping with it | PDF of Duane Elmer's cultural adjustment map | view as PowerPoint slide
  • Classic readings
    • Enculturation and acculturation
    • Hesselgrave -- "Verbal and Nonverbal Communication"
    • Hesselgrave -- "Worldview and Contextualization"
    • Hiebert -- "Anthropological Points of View"
    • Hiebert -- "Mission and Anthropology"
    • Kraft -- "Ethics of Change"
    • Tippett -- "Negative and Positive Values of Anthropology for Expatriate Missionaries"
    • Trobisch -- "Congregational Responsibility for the Individual"

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• Dante -- life of Italy's most important poet with photos and artwork (PDF format) | Download as PowerPoint
• "Dear mission trip participants" -- letter
• Death and Dying -- Suggestions on How to Minister
• Decision-making Tower or Pyramid
• Deputation -- Caring for Missionary Speakers
• Developing Ways to Operate Nazarene Global Missions Outreach -- a look back at history
• Devotional articles
  • A week of daily devotional articles about pastors
  • Devotional articles: Come Ye Apart
  • Devotional articles: Narf newsletter
  • Sermon on the Mount -- Six devotional articles (Matthew 5-7)
  • Devotional articles in The Standard, weekly reflections published in a take-home piece for adult Sunday school classes
    • Active faith, not fatalism -- Psalm 121:1-2
    • "And a wee little man was he" -- Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10)
    • Moses Confronts Pharaoh -- Exodus 10:1-9, 20-25
    • An appropriate humility -- Job 38:4-7
    • Atmosphere of commercialism -- Construction financing for St. Peter's Basilica in Rome -- John 1:10-11 and Acts 8:20
    • The Antichrist -- Luke 21:25-31, 34-36
    • Blessed . . . Not so . . . -- Psalm 1
    • Dancing around a golden calf -- Exodus 25:1-9a; 32:1-6a
    • Discipleship doesn't come cheaply -- Luke 6 | Bonhoeffer was right
    • Does the Colonel have something we don't have? -- Luke 14:12-24
    • "Don't throw your life away" -- Luke 9:23-25; 17:33; Matthew 16:24-27
    • Easter: Christ is Risen! -- Luke 24:5-7
    • Emptiness versus God's presence -- Exodus 33:12-17
    • Escaping mammon's golden claws -- Matthew 6:24
    • First things first -- Luke 12:13-34
    • Fountain of joy -- Habakkuk 2:2-4; 3:1-2, 17-19
    • Spiritual Renewal: The Fountain of Youth -- Isaiah 40:31 and 41:10
    • Getting the glory down -- Psalm 103
    • God has visited His people -- Luke 7:18-22
    • God's man under pressure -- Exodus 5:1-14
    • He is my shepherd -- Psalm 23
    • I sing because I'm free -- Exodus 14:10-16, 22-31
    • Leaning on the everlasting arms -- Psalm 37:1-11
    • Live-and-share philosophy of life -- Luke 5:17, 24, 27-39; 6:11
    • Lord, teach us to pray -- Luke 11:1-13
    • Love that destroys -- in a good sense -- 1 Corinthians 13
    • Measuring up -- Micah 6:8
    • Moses' call from "I am Who I am" -- Exodus 3:1-10, 13-15
    • Non più morte, non più duolo -- Revelation 21:4
    • Perfect love -- Luke 10:25-28
    • Power of the Savior's word -- Luke 4:31-36, 40-43; 5:1-6
    • Satan's empty bag of tricks -- Luke 4:13-20
    • Single-minded concern for the Kingdom -- Philippians 4:19
    • Sweet little baby Jesus -- Psalms 22:1-5; 23 and 24:7-10
    • Swimming upstream -- Exodus 20:12-20
    • Telling tales -- Psalm 15; 16:8-11
    • These hands I give to you -- Exodus 31:1-11
    • To everyone that is thirsty (Isaiah's vision) -- Isaiah 55:1-3
    • Too sure of ourselves -- Luke 22:33, 57
    • Trust the instruments: What flight training taught me -- Joshua 1:5-9
    • Unworthily? -- Exodus 12:1-14
    • Watch thief -- Exodus 33:12-23
    • We shall be changed -- 1 Corinthians 15:51-58
    • Wet blanket (or joyless) religion -- Luke 15:21-32
    • What does God have in mind for your kids? -- Exodus 2:1-15
    • What kind of Way Preparer are you? -- Luke 3:4, 15-18
    • Where is your faith? -- Luke 8:22-25
    • Where they did not belong -- Exodus 1:1-14
    • Who cares? -- 1 John 4:7
    • Who do you say He is? -- Luke 9:18-20
• Diamante (or diamond) poem instructions
• Difficult group members
• Discovering Missions book advertisement (PDF format)
• Discussion Questions: Creating Good Ones
• Distinguished Service Award (DSA) order form (PDF format)
• Divorce: Statement by Nazarene international General Assembly
• Does Jesus care if we cuss? -- Is swearing okay for Christians?
• Does Satan exist?
• Doing Missions Well: Missionary Biographies (Engage magazine articles)
  • 1. Mary Slessor -- identification in Africa
  • 2. Boniface -- power encounters in Germany
  • 3. Paul and Mary Orjala -- indigenization in Haiti
  • 4. William Carey -- holistic ministry in India
  • 5. Francis of Assisi -- ministering incarnationally (including to Muslims)
  • 6. Harmon and Lula Schmelzenbach -- envisioning the future in Africa
  • 7. Gladys Aylward -- example of humility in China
  • 8. Anskar -- Dedication to a call to Viking territory
  • 9. Susan N. Fitkin -- A missions mobilizer
  • 10. Steve Saint and the Waodani -- example of empowerment in Ecuador
  • 11. Cameron Townsend -- Acting strategically
  • 12. Earl and Gladys Mosteller -- example of pioneers in Brazil, Portugal and the Azores

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• Enculturation and acculturation: Two ways human beings acquire culture
• Ethics of Change by Charles Kraft
• Ethnocentrism: What's bad about it? How can we get moving on the path to multi-cultural appreciation and admiration
• Exam study sheets: see "Study guides"
• Exegesis paper in Theology of Missions | Feedback on exegesis papers (PDF format)
• Exit interviews: Guidelines and suggestions for talking to people who have left a church

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• Faith Promise giving for missions
  • Missions giving through Faith Promise: PowerPoint (PDF format)
  • Faith Promise commitment cards
  • Faith Promise Conventions: Guidelines for success
  • Faith Promise Theme Suggestions
• FAQ pages (Frequently Asked Questions)
  • Cultural Anthropology FAQs
  • Faith Promise Giving FAQs
  • Giving a Year of Volunteer Service
  • Global Evangelism class FAQs
• Fish Scale by Jamie Wood (PDF format)
• Frankfurt Declaration of the Fundamental Crisis in Christian Mission -- authored by Peter Beyerhaus (PDF format)
• Fundraising ideas for short-term mission trips
• Fundraising ideas from Brigada
• Fundraising principles

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• General Education courses
• "Getting paid" for the BibLit Bible dictionary report assignment (PDF format)
• Giving that transforms -- PDF of book
• Giving your testimony of faith in Jesus
• Global Evangelism course materials (NBC online)
• Global Missions Projects Giving in the Church of the Nazarene
• Glossolalia -- What is it?
• Goals of Nazarene Missions International
• God's Bulgarian tapestry (ebook)
  • Chapter 1. Weaving the Tapestry Chapter 2: A Presidential Thread Chapter 3: Thread from Empty Spools Chapter 4: Directors' Threads Chapter 5: A German thread Chapter 6: A Kazakhstan Colored Thread Chapter 7: Broken Threads Chapter 8: A Youthful Thread Chapter 9: Of Shuttles or Spinning Wheels Chapter 10: Faded Red and Gold Threads Chapter 11: Discarded Threads Chapter 12: Some West Coast Threads Chapter 13: A Very Weak Thread Chapter 14: Some Mexican Thread Chapter 15: Threads of Greenbacks and Tears Chapter 16: The Compassionate Ministry Thread Chapter 17: Some Parental Threads Chapter 18: The Emerging Pattern
• Good Grades: How to get them
• Good news for all people plus an Advent devotional article and how to say Merry Christmas in 99 languages
• gospel-ready countries
• Grading rubric sample for written assignments (PDF format)
• Gray matrix (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
• Group Members -- Unwelcome Ones
• Gulliver's Travels, McDonald's restaurants and Cultural anthropology | PDF file of page

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• Haggai: Finding resources for world evangelism (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
• Ham Radio Blog Illustrations
• Hand of God at work in current events
• Hand: A way to remember how to pray for missionaries
• Harvest time in Haiti!
• Heartwarming stories from the SNU campus
• Hidden Bible book names puzzle | 16 hidden Bible book names solution | 30 hidden Bible book names solution
• History of Nazarene Missions International
• Holiness and Missions -- classic through-the-Bible booklet by Susan Fitkin
• Holiness Today articles (formerly known as Herald of Holiness)
  • Come share the dream
  • Escaping mammon's golden claws
  • God's down payment to us
  • A New Year's promise and project
• Home page
• Homiletical reflections
• How "entire" is entire sanctification?
• How weekly Bible Reading assignments are graded

• I

• I threw my life away
• Iceberg, concentric circles, and onions: 3 analogies of culture
• Identifying receptive people
• Illustrated Bible Life articles
  • Contextualization of the gospel
  • Did the Apostle Paul believe in the Great Commission?
  • The Gentile Pentecost
  • Religious responses to suffering
  • Stewardship: It's a big deal
• Inserts for Sunday bulletins (worship folders)
  • Alabaster
  • Global awareness
• Inspirational devotional articles published in The Standard
• Inspirational writings: Nazarene Amateur Radio Fellowship (NARF) newsletter
• Institutions: help or hindrance to church health and growth?
• Internet pages: Examples of District and local NMI websites
• Introduction to Biblical Literature course
• Introduction to Christian Missions course resources
• Introduction to Christian Thought course
• Istwa Labib: Bible history summary in Haitian Creole
• It happened today in world missions history
  
  • January events February events March events April events May events June events July events August events September events October events November events December events

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• Japan: History of Nazarene work
• Jehovah's Witness: Questions and answers
  • page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 8 page 9
  • page 10 page 11 page 12 page 13
• Jehovah's Witnesses PowerPoint presentation on history and beliefs (PDF format)
• Jonah, the reluctant missionary (ebook)
• Juggling instructions (PDF format)

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• The Kingdom strikes back: Signs of the Messiah at work: Foreword 1. The Kingdom strikes back 2. The blind are seeing 3. The lepers are being cured 4. The crippled are walking 5. The deaf are hearing 6. The poor are hearing the Good News 7. Conclusion
• Knox, Wanda -- biography by Kimberly Jayne

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• "Lab" reports for Ministry, Church and Society course | PDF of PowerPoint explanation
• Leadership Survey (PDF format)
• Lessons from church health/growth research
• Lessons from Italy
• Letter to college students preparing for a short-term mission trip experience
• Life's legacy
• Lightbulb: what is it?
• Linguistics course resources
• Listening productively to boring lectures
• Litany for commissioning or sending short-term mission trip teams
• Local church research (PDF format)

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• McGavran, Donald and the Church Growth movement (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
• Measuring compassion advertisement (PDF format)
• Medical Plan giving
• Medical Plan giving advertisement (PDF format)
• Membership in the Church of the Nazarene
• Memorable Quotes About and Tributes to People, Things and Concepts
• Memorial Roll certificate order form (PDF format)
• Memory passages for BibLit
• Messianic terminology and definitions: some help in contextualization
• Milestones on the way to cross-cultural understanding
• Ministry, Church and Society course requirements (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
• Ministry, Church and Society course resources
• Missiology
• Mission Briefing: Concepts affecting world mission outreach today
  • Henry Venn's three "selfs" for churches
  • Infinitely reproducible patterns and structures
  • Sodality: Strange word, important concept
  • Unengaged people groups: Where the Church is not yet
  • Contextualization
  • What is our primary motivation for involvement in world evangelism?
  • The evils of dependency
  • Be a sender
  • Mission-fit
  • 10/40 Window focus
  • Globalization
  • Excluded middle or expanded middle?
  • Paternalism: Helping or hurting?
  • Comity or collaboration?
  • Surviving culture shock
  • Cultural responses to wrongdoing
  • Is everyone a missionary?
  • Redemptive analogies
  • Creating sustainability
  • Leadership training
• Mission Call Coordinator (PDF format)
• Mission Corps
• Mission to the World -- History of Nazarene Missions
  • Chapters 1-2 -- "The Worldwide Mission of the Church" and "The Development of Nazarene World Mission Administration" from Mission to the World (PDF format)
  • Chapters 3-4 -- "The Executive Secretary of the Department of World Missions" and "The Director of the World Mission Division" from Mission to the World (PDF format)
  • Chapters 5-6 -- "The Nazarene World Mission Society" and "Support Programs of World Mission" from Mission to the World (PDF format)
• Mission trip fund raising ideas
• Missionary biography
• Missionary interview assignment suggestions
• Missionary slogans | PDF of PowerPoint slides | view as PowerPoint
• Missionary songs -- list of titles for use in missions services
• Missionary songs -- world missions words set to familiar tunes
• Missionary statistics
• Missions Bible verses: 500-word reflections
• Missions dollars in the Church of the Nazarene -- what they support
• Missions history course resources
• Missions history lecture
• Missions history timeline: Year-by-year across the centuries
• Missions training exercise: Getting out of your comfort zone
• Mobilizing local churches for world evangelism
• Modern Missionary Movement course resources
• Monthly NMI emphases
• More than 300 Common Sayings Quoted From the Bible
• Mr. Missionary, I Have a Question
  Preface Hawaii, hoes and holiness Creole, Christopher Columbus and the Citadel Regional Directors, demons and the Dominican Republic Mangoes, malnutrition and modernization Rice Christians, churches and Caravan Missionaries, mail and men Epilogue
• My Faith Story worksheet (PDF format)

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• Nazarene Amateur Radio Fellowship (NARF) devotional articles with illustrations from ham radio
• Nazarene Bible College course - Global Evangelism
• Nazarene church membership
• Nazarene global expansion -- country by country
• Nazarene missions - brief history
• Nazarene Missions course resources
• Nazarene Theological Education around the world (PDF format)
• New pastor welcome gift bag
• News Writing workshop notes
• Nine habits or characteristics of very fruitful churches
• NMI (Nazarene Missions International)
• NMI publicity advertisement (PDF format)

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• Online characters I've encountered while teaching online
• Online Learning: Good habits lead to good grades
• Opportunities for giving to world missions (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
• Optical Illusions: What do you see?
• Oral reports -- BibLit class
• Our balanced attack -- how Nazarenes finance world evangelism
  PDF of book Chapters online: 1. Football and missions giving 2. Budget: A bad word doing good things 3. We called it general, but it's very specific 4. Peanut butter and jelly 5. The Nazarene Construction Company 6. I was hungry, and you gave me something 7. Giving more with less pain 8. Doubling and tripling our investments 9. Cleaning out attics and garages Conclusion
• Our history: The Church of the Nazarene
• Outreach to the nations: 1600 to present

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• Parables: How Can They Help Us?
• Pasta, pizza and Pinocchio
  • Introduction 1. The Leaning Tower, the Lira, and Women's Lib 2. Italian, Illegal Drugs, and Insulated Buildings 3. Fiats, Florence, and Furloughs 4. The Military, Missionaries, and the Mafia 5. Marco Polo and Ronald McDonald 6. The Cerratos, Alabaster Churches, and Work Crews 7. Communism, Catholicism, and the Charismatics 8. Sincerity, Self-support, and Sowing the Seed 9. Books, Broadcasting, and the Bible College 10. Culture Shock and Carpeting 11. A Word from My Heart
• Paul McGrady, Mr. Evangelism
  • 1. End of an era
  • 2. The preacher
  • 3. The soul winner
  • 4. The teacher
  • A ministerial student speaks
  • Sermon: New Testament evangelism
• Persecuted church stories
• Perspectives on the World Christian Movement | Resources for Lesson 8
• Phases of short-term missions experiences
• PowerPoint presentations
  • Seven trends: The theology of missions (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Approaching the Bible correctly (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Interacting with other cultures: The attitude spectrum (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Case studies -- a unique teaching tool (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • How Christians view the surrounding culture (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Christ and Culture -- Theology of Missions (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Christian community development (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Church Growth defined (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Coming up with money for youth ministry (PDF format)
  • Demons and the occult (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Church Growth pathology: disease that inhibit local church development (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Covenant for church members (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Common Biblical interpretation errors (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Contents of Bible books (PDF format)c | view as PowerPoint
  • Creating cultural awareness in short-term mission team participants (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Creating links in the chain of interactions that lead to faith (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Cultural Anthropology's big names (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Defining culture and cultural anthropology (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • How should we describe God? (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Church Health/Growth Movement and History (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Donald McGavran: Biography and legacy (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint | McGavra\: biography and legacy (PDF format) (edited for MCS) | view as PowerPoint ]
  • Drawbacks of Drawbacks of Unilinear cultural evolution models (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Developing cultural awareness in short-term mission team participants (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Duane Elmer's culture shock response diagram (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Epochs or eras of the global expansion of Christianity (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint | Epochs of the global expansion of Christianity for Ministry, Church and Society class (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Twelve eras or periods of biblical history (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Key biblical themes (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Exegeting the culture (church health and growth) -- PDF format | view as PowerPoint
  • Fund-raising (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • History of Haiti (for mission trip training) -- PDF format | view as PowerPoint
  • The iceberg of culture (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Inadequate uses of the Bible (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Indigenizing the church's ministries -- (student presentation) -- PDF format | view as PowerPoint
  • Jehovah's Witnesses -- Origin, development, beliefs and practices (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Language learning alphabet (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint | Accompanying worksheet (PDF format)
  • Ministering to people's needs (PDF format of student presentation) | view as PowerPoint
  • Missions communication (global awareness) -- PDF format
  • Moving beyond stereotypes (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Multiplying recruiting units (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • New Testament books -- brief descriptions (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Obstacles churches face (PDF format) -- (MCS) | view as PowerPoint
  • Pioneers of the World Christian Movement (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • "Please Don't Send Me to Africa" -- Scott Wesley Brown's song (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Plundering the Egyptians -- using insights of cultural anthropology on short-term mission trips (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Relational evangelism (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • How religious people view their surrounding culture (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • What is a "substantive" response post? (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Spiritual Warfare (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Staying healthy on a short-term mission trip — Mary Hibbert, RN (PDF format)
  • Three men: On whose shoulders do we stand? (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Top 20 unreached people groups (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • The USA: Fertile soil for new religious movements (MCS) — PDF format | view as PowerPoint
  • Why Christians seem useless and irrelevant today (student presentation) — PDF format | view as PowerPoint
  • World Mission Radio publicity (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Visualizing missions in the Bible using some symbols (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Volunteer Service Project assignment in MCS (PDF format) | View as PowerPoint
  • What in the world is God doing? (PDF format) Seminar at Global NMI convention | view as PowerPoint
  • Where Nazarene global missions outreach fits historically (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Why I accept the Bible as authoritative (BibLit) — PDF format | view as PowerPoint
  • World Evangelism Fund: Where on earth does WEF go? (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • World missions: Overview of Biblical basis, history and current situation (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Color coded map of religions worldwide (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
  • Worldviews (MCS) -- PDF format | view as PowerPoint
  • Your Faith Journey (telling your story) MCS -- PDF format | view as PowerPoint
  • The world from "my" perspective (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
• Prayer for the world's children
• Praying for missionaries
• President Gresham's dream of overseas volunteer service for new college graduates
• Printed music and words for classic missions songs and hymns (PDF format)
  • "A Missionary Cry"
  • "A World-Wide Revival"
  • "All the world for Jesus"
  • "Arm of the Lord, Awake"
  • "Called to all nations" -- an NMI quadrennial theme song
  • "Come, Labor On!"
  • "Eternal God, Whose Power Upholds"
  • "Fill Up the Ranks"
  • "Fling Out the Banner"
  • "For My Sake and the Gospel's"
  • "For the Whole Wide World"
  • "Go!"
  • "Go Ye Into All the World"
  • "Go, Ye Messengers of God"
  • "Hark! The Voice of Jesus Calling"
  • "He Was Not Willing"
  • "Heralds of Christ"
  • "Here Am I, Send Me"
  • "Imagine the Harvest" -- NMI quadrennial theme song
  • "Increase my vision"
  • "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go"
  • "Jesus Shall Reign"
  • "Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Gates of Brass"
  • "Lord of the Living Harvest"
  • "Our God Reigns"
  • "O Zion, Haste!"
  • "Proclaim Our God of Love"
  • "Reach Your Arms Around the World for Jesus"
  • "Ready"
  • "Redeem the Time"
  • "Rescue the Perishing"
  • "Roll On, Thou Mighty Ocean"
  • "Saving and Serving"
  • "Savior, Sprinkle Many Nations"
  • "Speak, My Lord"
  • "Speed Away"
  • "Speed the Light"
  • "Tell the Blessed Story"
  • "The Battle Is the Lord's"
  • "The Kingdom is Coming"
  • "The Light of the World is Jesus"
  • "The Macedonian Cry"
  • "The Morning Light is Breaking"
  • "The Regions Beyond"
  • "The Whole Wide World for Jesus"
  • "Thou Whose Almighty Word"
  • "Throw Out the Lifeline"
  • "The Work Must Go On"
  • "We'll Girdle the Globe with Salvation" -- classic lyrics that mean we'll go all the way around the globe or we'll cover the globe
  • "When the whole world lives for Him"
  • "Ye Christian Heralds"
  • "Your Mission"
• Puzzles -- Crosswords, word search and word scrambles

• Q

• Question form -- Christian Thought class (PDF format)
• Questions for group presentations -- theology of missions
• Questions Raised and Answered by the New Testament Books
• Questions Raised and Answered by the Old Testament

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• Raising financial support for short-term mission trips
• Recipe from Haiti
• Reentry from cross-cultural missions experience -- Suggestions on how to bounce back
• Reflecting Christ in world missions: Cross-cultural Christlikeness
  • Compassion
  • Humility
  • Discernment
  • Focus on transformation
  • Strategic team builder
  • Merciful and forgiving
  • He lived among them
  • Proactive and intentional
  • Casting a vision
  • Leaders as servants
  • Empowering others
• Responding to appeals for donations
• Responses to a Jehovah's Witness's questions
• Responsive Bible Readings for global missions events | PDF of PowerPoint slides | view as PowerPoint
• Risorgimento in Italy: The doors open to Protestants
• Roman Catholic monastic missionary strategy
• Rookie Notebook -- Our first nine months as missionaries in Italy
  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Somebody stole my jungle
  • 3. I've always wanted to wear a pith helmet
  • 4. Sometimes I really want to go home
  • 5. It's part of the culture
  • 6. "Because He lives, I can face tomorrow"
  • 7. Postscript
• Ruining a short-term mission trip
  

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• Sample assignment papers -- actual papers submitted by students
  • Introduction to Missions and Global Evangelism
    • My church's global involvement
  • Nazarene Missions
    • Biography of Orpha Speicher -- medical missionary to India (PDF format)
• Sample prayer card
• Sample support raising letters
• Sampling of "topic paper" ideas (PDF format) for Mission Strategies course
• Scenarios for Theology of Missions class
• Schmelzenbach biography -- pioneer missionary to Africa
• Scripture index: Bible passages used on this site
  • Old Testament site concordance
  • New Testament site concordance
• Self-examination questions reflecting those of John Wesley
• Sermons on holiness -- audio by Dr. Scott Daniels
• Service project suggestions for Ministry, Church, and Society course assignment
• Shepherd Community -- an urban ministry center in Indianapolis
• Short-term mission trips
• "Silent Night" -- The story behind the beloved Christmas carol
• Slogans promoting world evangelism | Slogans on PowerPoint slides (PDF format)
• Slogans that awakened the Church -- mini-essay series from Engage magazine
  • 1. Christ's Great Commission: An option or a command? -- Hudson Taylor
  • 2. God is a missionary god -- Eddy Ho
  • 3. We are debtors: Pay it forward -- P.F. Bresee
  • 4. What breaks your heart? -- Bob Pierce
  • 5. Lost people matter to God! -- Keith Wright
  • 6. The Church MUST send, or . . . -- Mendell Taylor
  • 7. Getting it there in time -- Carl F. H. Henry
  • 8. Missions is the basis of the Bible -- Ralph Winter
  • 9. Christ is the spirit of missions -- Henry Martyn
  • 10. Everybody everywhere -- Edward Lawlor
  • 11. Do we really understand the nature of salvation? -- Ted Engstrom
  • 12. Nothing left but the covers -- Nina Gunter
• Society for the Picking of Apples -- a world missions parable
• Songs in other languages
• Speaking in tongues -- some thoughts about glossolalia
• Speaking through an interpreter
• Spiritual priorities survey (PDF format) | view as PowerPoint
• Starter questions and candy gifts for missions council or committee meetings
• Statistics: The world in the 21st century
• Story of the Bible in pictures -- a one-page story of the Bible in graphics (PDF format)
• Strategies of Missions Practices syllabus (PDF)
• Strategy lecture for Global Evangelism course (Part 1)
• Strategy lecture for Global Evangelism course (Part 2)
• Strategy of missions course resources
• Study guides for exams (PDF format) -- What you need to know in order to do well.
  • Introduction to Biblical literature (BibLit)
    • BibLit exam 1 (PDF format) BibLit exam 2 (PDF format) BibLit exam 3 (PDF format) BibLit final exam (PDF format)
  • Christian faith and life
    • Christian faith and life exam 1 (PDF format)
    • Christian faith and life exam 3 (PDF format)
  • Christian thought
    • Exam 1 (PDF format) Exam 2 (PDF format) Exam 3 (PDF format) Exam 4 (PDF format) Final exam (PDF format)
  • Introduction to Christian missions
    • Exam 1 (PDF format) Exam 2 (PDF format) Exam 3 (PDF format) Exam 4 (PDF format) -- final
  • Church health/growth and Christian missions
    • Exam 1 (PDF format) Exam 2 (PDF format) Final exam (PDF format)
  • Cultural anthropology
    • Exam 1 (PDF format) Final exam (PDF format)
  • Ministry, church and society (MCS)
    • Regular semester
      • Exam 1 (PDF format) Exam 2 (PDF format) Exam 3 (PDF format)
    • May mini-term
      • Final exam (PDF format)
  • Modern missionary movement (History of missions)
    • Exam 1 (PDF format) Exam 2 (PDF format) Exam 3 (PDF format) Exam 4 (PDF format)
  • Mission strategies
    • Exam 1 (PDF format)
    • Exam 2 (PDF format) Exam 3 (PDF format) Exam 4 (PDF format)
  • Nazarene Missions
    • Nazarene Missions exam 1 (PDF format)
  • Theology of missions
    • Exam 1 (PDF format)
      Grading rubric for Exam 1 Exam 2 (PDF format) Exam 3 (PDF format)
  • World's Living Religions
    • Exam 1 (PDF format) Exam 2 (PDF format) Exam 3 (Final) -- PDF format
• Summary paper instructions -- Cultural Anthropology (Bridge)
• Supplementary Bible crossword puzzles
  • Puzzle 1 Puzzle 2 Puzzle 3 Puzzle 4 Puzzle 5 Puzzle 6 Puzzle 7 Puzzle 8 Puzzle 9 Puzzle 10 Puzzle 11 Puzzle 12 Puzzle 13 Puzzle 14
• Support money
• Survivor care kit for missions council leaders
• Survivor kit for courses
• Susanna Wesley defines sin
• Syllabi for courses
  • Chiesa del Nazareno: sua storia (PDF format)
  • Christian Doctrines 2 (PDF format)
  • Christian Faith -- NILI in Ecuador (PDF format)
  • Christian Faith and Life (PDF format)
  • Christian Thought (PDF format)
  • Church Leadership (PDF format)
  • Cultural Anthropology (PDF format)
  • Cultural Anthropology -- Adult Studies Bridge (PDF format)
  • Cultural Anthropology-- by arrangement (PDF format)
  • Foundations for Biblical Studies (PDF format)
  • L'evangelizzazione e la chiesa (PDF format)
  • Holiness and Identity (PDF format)
  • Introduction to Biblical Literature (PDF format)
  • Introduction to Christian Missions
  • Introduction to the Old Testament (PDF format)
  • Introduzione al Nuovo Testamento (PDF format)
  • Mexican Field Studies (PDF format)
  • Ministry, Church and Society (PDF format)
  • Ministry Church and Society -- online
  • Ministry Experience (PDF format)
  • Missiology and Contextualization (PDF format)
  • Mission in Global Contexts (PDF format)
  • Nazarene Missions in context (PDF format)
  • Perspectives on the World Judeo-Christian Movement (PDF format)
  • Pastoral Care and Counselling (PDF format)
  • Photos illustrating page content
  • Preaching (PDF format)
  • Strategies of mission practices (PDF format)
  • Summer ministry experience -- Africa (PDF format)
  • Theology of Missions (PDF format)
  • Traditional religions course materials
  • Urban missions -- Directed study (PDF format)
  • La vocazione e il ministero personale (PDF format)
  • World's Living Religions (PDF format) (also known as World Religions)
• Syllabus: your course road map

• T

• Take courage! Pran kouraj!
• Tate: Was that Adam's last name?
• Terms of Service
• Thanksgiving: What does the Bible say? (PDF format)
• Theology of missions course materials
• Theology of missions questions for group presentations
• Third-culture kids
• Three Missionary Profiles -- Readers' theatre script for Lottie Moon, C.T. Studd and Hudson Taylor and his two wives (PDF format)
• Tips for online class discussions
• Tips for safe travel
• Top 5 missions videos
• Top Ten ways to fix writing problems
• Traditional Religions course materials
• Travel checklist for short-term mission trips
• Two churches' attitudes toward world missions
  

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• The unevangelized: Will they be lost? – Answers to an oft-asked question
• Unwelcome group members
  
• Used accordions needed in Haiti
• Using Theological Education by Extension to teach Biblical theology in Haiti (PDF format)

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• Videos embedded on the pages of this site
• Videos for NBC's Global Evangelism course
  • Welcome to course Weekly reading reports Week 1: 2 Sermon Ideas assignment Week 2: Sermon Illustration assignment Week 3: NMI Central assignment Week 4: My local church's involvement Week 5: Face-to-face mobilization Week 6: Missionary interview assignment Response posts End-of-Week Reflections "All posts read" affirmation Calculating grades and "incomplete" grades Final exam
• Volunteer missions work
• Voodoo rara band in Haiti
  
• Voodoo spirit possession – Is it demonic?

• W

• Waiting on the Holy Spirit --- Mission Trip Preparation
• Welcome, New Pastors
• Wesleyan perspective article (PDF format)
• Wesleyan perspective study sheet
• What does a holiness minister do?
• What MKs wish churches knew
• What we believe and teach: Questions and answers
• Who is the real Hindu? (PDF format)
• Why do we use responsive Bible readings?
• Will the real me please stand up?
• William "Bill" Borden: No Reserve. No Retreat. No Regret.
• Witnessing scenarios: How would you respond?
• Word cloud art illustrating page content
• Word scramble puzzles
  • Chapter 8 of Discovering the Bible
  • Chapter 13 of Discovering the Bible
  • Chapters 29 and 30 of Discovering the Bible
• Word search puzzles
  • Chapter 5 (Exodus) of Discovering the Bible
  • Chapter 14 of Discovering the Bible
  • Chapter 27 of Discovering the Bible
  • Chapter 32 (Revelation) of Discovering the Bible
  • Most-mentioned names in the Bible
• World Evangelism Broadcast offering
• World missions in the Bible

-- Howard Culbertson, hculbert@snu.edu