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Monday, May 11, 2020

Impact and Implications of the CoVid-19 Pandemic | Jason Mandryk

Jason Mandryk with Operation World just released a free eBook (53 pages) titled Global Transmission Global Mission: The Impact and Implications of the CoVid-19 Pandemic.

You can download the eBook here http://covid-19.operationworld.org/global-transmission-global-mission/:

CoVid-19 is proving a disruptive, distressing, and divisive force throughout the world. How do mission-minded Christians respond? What happens to the Great Commission when the world is on lockdown? In this short e-book, Jason Mandryk, the author of Operation World, takes readers through a sweeping overview of the implications of the coronavirus for the global Church, and specifically, its impact on global mission.

In compiling this analysis, the Operation World team interacted with ministry and mission leaders in every region of the world, getting input on how to pray for different nations afflicted by CoVid-19 as well as strategic considerations from a wide array of missiological contexts.

Here is the Table of Contents

  1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  2. PREFACE
  3. INTO THE UNKNOWN
  4. THE BIGGER PICTURE – SOCIOCULTURAL ISSUES
  5. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ECONOMY?
  6. CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC
  7. CHURCH LIFE DURING LOCKDOWN
  8. MISSION MOBILIZATION
  9. MISSIONARY SENDING
  10. MISSION FIELD REALITIES
  11. CHRISTIAN MEDIA
  12. PRAYER – THE LAST RESORT?
  13. REASONS FOR HOPE

Read the whole thing, available in PDF, Epub, and Mobi.