On Monday at the perspectives-on-missions course that Alexis and I are taking, the class for this week was about cross-cultural communication of the gospel. The instructor was Glenn Schwartz, executive director of Word Missions Associates.

I got to meet Glenn during the mid-session break, and we had a great conversation then and again after the class was over. I am really enthused about Glenn’s thoughts and insight into the problem of dependency that most missions-established churches have, i.e. their dependency on outside funding, especially American dollars and the many damaging cultural and spiritual problems such a dependency brings.

Check out the World Missions Associates page here: http://www.wmausa.org

I like the webpage especially because it has, front and center, a link that says: If you have time to read only one article click here

That’s awesome - a website that actually cares about visitors’ time! Thanks for doing that, Glenn!

Glenn is a living answered prayer. God used my conversation with Glenn to encourage me and give me peace about the path I’m on as I doggedly address my bitterness issues with church culture and exported American Christianity. Even though the conversation was not about those topics at all!

I don’t know how to explain it - I guess I felt the calm of the Holy Spirit within my soul as I listened to Glenn. I felt that Glenn had seen problems with the way missions was being done, but he is actually walking with God’s heart in actually *doing* something about them

In particular, check out Glenn’s personal journey:
http://www.wmausa.org/page.aspx?id=83541

Thanks Glenn.