Innovation in Mission excites me like no other missions book I've ever read; I came away energized and full of new ideas and possibilities. This is a must-read for mission leaders, strategic planners, and future cross-cultural kingdom workers. But let the reader beware: Innovation in Mission will challenge you to make significant changes in what you do and how you do it!
Scott Moreau, Editor, EMQ (Evangelical Missions Quarterly)
Innovation in Mission addresses some of the most important strategic issues we face [in our rapidly changing world]. Because the global missionary movement needs to take stock of their practices, this book is important. Editors Reapsome and Hirst selected the contributors and the topics well. The chapters provide important insights for conversations that should be on the agenda of churches and missions alike. This is a book to share with others on your Boards, in your Sunday School classes, and in the missions you support.
Doug McConnell, Dean and Associate Professor of Leadership, Fuller Theological Seminary
This is a timely book with an astonishingly wide range of current missions practices and concepts. It also has many helpful examples that can be used by missions pastors, agency leaders and missionaries. A must read for every missiologist and missions practitioner.
Jim Tebbe, Urbana Director
As I looked through these pages, I felt this is a book that I need to read myself. After 50 years in missions I still have much to learn.
George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilization
We’ve all encountered people who are “ahead of their time.” They challenge us, inspire us, and often create consternation. The work of mission has, over the course of two millennia, adapted, innovated, and at certain times and places merely survived. It is clear that missions as we have known it, will be known in a different light in the days to come. Innovation in Mission is a rich thread in the fabric of change/innovation that will assist the reader to be “ahead of their time.”
David J Jahnke, Regional Director, Asia, BGC International Ministries
The world is changing rapidly and this requires the church to examine the old ways and explore new ways of functioning to ensure we are relating effectively to a challenging situation. This book will help.
Stuart Briscoe, pastor and author
While the standard definition of “innovation” is “The act of introducing a change or something new,” the root of “innovation/innovate” comes from the concept of renewing and/or altering something already existing. What I like about the outstanding essays in this excellent book is that these missions strategists and activists are ready to take us into new, uncharted waters while maintaining the Biblical/historical maps already tested in “missiological navigation.”
Dr. Grant McClung, Church of God World Missions
I’ve covered hundreds of missions organizations around the world. I’ve always wondered why someone hasn’t written a book to talk about all the innovations that are having an incredible impact on missions. Innovation in Mission does just that. It takes innovations and trends from the church, business, short-term mission, multi-media, and more to force the reader to think outside the box and become innovators themselves in evangelism, discipleship and church planting, while reminding us of the foundations that have enabled many organizations to see incredible success over the years.
Greg Yoder, Executive Director/Anchor, Mission Network News
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