Author: mattwhitacre

• November 14, 2023

  Welcome

  “Welcome” is one of the SIX WAYS to be involved in God’s global mission. The idea is people from one of the 7,000 Unreached People Groups travel and move to places in the world where there is a Christian witness. e.g. international students, refugees, migrants, etc. Christians in turn have the opportunity to share the…
• November 6, 2023

  connection over content

  Recently I helped facilitate a short-term mission team leader training. There were about four different churches or organizations represented. They had never met each other and likely won’t meet again. Yet for the roughly 8 hours they were together, they had a chance to build a relationship and learn together. After leading many of these…
• October 30, 2023

  led by the ministry context

  At some point in Hudson Taylor’s journey of doing mission work in China and establishing the China Inland Mission in England, he made a critical decision. The ministry strategies and plans would not be dictated by the leaders in London, but by the missionaries in China. The hope was to eliminate some cross-cultural misunderstandings and…
• October 23, 2023

  Short-term Mission, Long-term Relationships

  I love the idea of church partnerships. In my context that means American churches supporting churches and missionaries in other parts of the world. It’s a vision we promote at OMF — a beautiful picture of the global body of Christ working together for the same mission. The blessing and challenge with real partnerships is…
• October 20, 2023

  Just start

  Here we go. They say the hardest part is getting started, right? I’ve been thinking about writing blog-style posts for a long time. Like 10 years. I found a note in my journal from 2013, shortly after we moved to Denver to join OMF, expressing this desire to write. I had just finished seminary and…