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What's Your Ministry Score? The Ministry Valuation Playbook, Lisa Kralina
What's Your Ministry Score? The Ministry Valuation Playbook, Lisa Kralina
Journal of Applied Christian Leadership
Traditional missionary efforts consist of individuals following God’s leadership of going and teaching people in other lands. Such small-scale efforts are overwhelmed within rapidly changing world populations and amid ever-increasing analytical and technology advancements. This article investigates current practices and financial valuations of expatriates and international missionaries. By integrating business disciplines, evangelistic expatriates will be better positioned to reach biblical goals of discipleship. A modified model and implementation actions are suggested for churches and ministries sending missionaries.
“Are You White Or Dutch?”: Hendrina Hospers And Living Among Apaches, Douglas Firth Anderson
“Are You White Or Dutch?”: Hendrina Hospers And Living Among Apaches, Douglas Firth Anderson
Northwestern Review
Hendrina Hospers (1880-1968) was a home missionary of the Women’s Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church in America (RCA). She grew up in a Dutch-American Protestant colony led by her father, Henry Hospers. The colony, centered in Orange City, Iowa, was built around church and school, and Hendrina participated in both. She graduated from the Northwestern Classical Academy (affiliated with the RCA) in 1897. She taught in public schools until both her parents were dead. From 1907 to 1946, she worked as an RCA home missionary, first with the Chiricahua Apaches around Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and briefly around …