Mission Issues

Recent decades have witnessed explosive church growth across regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.  Many countries which used to receive missionaries have increasingly become senders of them.  One curious by-product however, has been the volume of Western churches that now see their primary role in mission as supporting these indigenous missionaries.  Instead of local churches intentionally sending their own people, the tendency for many seems to be short-term personal involvement alongside long-term sponsoring of non-Western missionaries.&nb