Vulnerabilities Journal: July 13, 2009

Each month we keep an eye on 11 major issues and here link to articles on major events in each category. These are global ‘vulnerabilities’ that can cause significant challenges or opportunities for the church and missions.
General

US Navy Admiral Wants Do-Good Battlegroups: “Humanitarian Service Groups” especially for Latin America.
World’s Hungry Top 1 Billion, 4 [...]

Men and Women’s Mission Agencies

Dell has recently introduced a part of their site for women, called Della. While reading Zdnet’s analysis (which was pretty negative), it got me to wondering why Protestants don’t have male and female mission agencies.
Roman Catholics, of course, have always had male-only/female-only missionary orders (brothers, sisters), but modern Protestant missions never have. Early modern missionary [...]

If only one flower stands out, it is not truly spring: a Chinese house church pastor’s perspective

Special Note: We are so glad to present you with a letter written first-hand by a leading Chinese house church pastor himself! “Brother Dong” is a premiere Christian leader on a nationwide scale, involved in a very wide spectrum of Christian work across many provinces. Recently, he spoke to China Harvest’s Board and staff by [...]