Tag Archives: missions

Report globally and help the Church engage

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Jim Killam

A video segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live! is getting big social media play this week. People interviewed on the street could not identify a single country on a world map. Not even their own. It couldn’t possibly be this bad. Could it? Things … Continue reading →

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Raising questions and starting conversations

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Jim Killam

  In the days leading up to Memorial Day, PBS reran The Vietnam War, the riveting 17-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.   Last year, Burns was asked about his team’s reporting process in deeply telling the … Continue reading →

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Your Monday encouragement

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Jim Killam
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An innovation conversation

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Jim Killam

Here’s an opportunity this Friday to talk about great ideas. Click on the image below to register.

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A Writer’s Mission

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jim Killam

Quick: What’s the goal in any story we write about ministry? Show readers what God is doing in a particular place? Further the mission of Bible translation? Further the Great Commission? Engage people? Inspire more prayer and funding for a … Continue reading →

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WWHTD? How churches can produce more world Christians

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Jim Killam

Famed 19th-century missionary Hudson Taylor suggested a four-part process for engaging congregations in missions. 1. Missions are preached every Sunday; 2. Every person in the church knows his/her personal responsibility to support the work of missionaries; 3. Missionaries must give … Continue reading →

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‘And now we have a movement’

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Jim Killam

The video shown below is terribly, terribly shot. If ever there was a lesson on the value of a tripod, this is it. Get past that, though, and listen to the better lesson: the importance of being a first follower. … Continue reading →

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What God is up to in Egypt

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Jim Killam

From its infancy, our missionary journalism ministry has been about two primary things we seek to report to the church: What is God up to, and how can people get in on it? The second part is easier than the … Continue reading →

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Dying to selfie

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Jim Killam

What’s the greatest photo ever taken? Well, according to the Internet this week, it was the selfie taken Sunday by Bradley Cooper at the Oscars. Host Ellen DeGeneres gathered about a dozen Hollywood A-listers and Cooper took the photo with … Continue reading →

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Knowing your enemy

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Jim Killam

Last week, a missionary friend and I got together for coffee. In the course of a conversation about story and book ideas, we got talking about suffering and perseverance. That’s a topic familiar to most missionaries, but his next statement … Continue reading →

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