From https://www.imb.org/2017/05/25/number-one-reason-missionaries-go-home/ : The most common reason missionaries go home is not due to l...

As someone who is involved in missions leadership, I understand the challenges facing evangelical sending agencies today in communicating vi...

From From Seed to Fruit , The Gathering of Teams of Laborers, page 141: Fruitful Practice #2: Aiming for a Large Enough Team This i...

From Appendix 3: “For Team Leaders” in Spiritual Survival Handbook for Cross-Cultural Workers : When we begin as team leaders we believ...

The Spiritual Survival Handbook for Cross-Cultural Workers is not a great book, but it is filled with important concepts and is short (112 ...

For those who would like to study missionary attrition, here are some helpful resources. What is attrition ?  Examining the Faces of Attri...

Here is a paper on broad-sowing evangelism by A.H., titled Sow the Seed Widely .  From the introduction: Over the years as I’ve been in...

From the EMQ January 2010 issue: Preventing Discouragement and Keeping Church Planters Productive on the Field, by David A. Diaso : The...

Quoted in Discovering Church Planting , pg 44: “In his article, “ The Essence of the Church ,” Tom Julien discussed the fact that many chu...

Here is one man's dream for healthy teams and effective ministry, called A Vision for Team .  His "5 Areas of Togetherness" th...

I have been thinking a lot about "identity" recently.  So as I was reading Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Co...

From Appendix 5 of the book a Vision of the Possible; Pioneer Church Planting in Teams by Dan Sinclair: Top Ten Team Pitfalls From my obser...

Here are my notes from Chapter 12, "The Gathering of Teams of Laborers" in From Seed to Fruit: Global Trends, Fruitful Practices, ...