2024 Annual Conference Recordings

Biblical-Theological Model of the Church

Serving the Lord in Pastoral Care: Paul’s Farewell Speech to the Ephesian Elders at Miletus

Robert Gallagher


Biblical-Theological Model of the Church

The Anatomy Analogy

Sarah Lunsford
 


Biblical-Theological Model of the Church

Theological and Biblical Bridging of Six Dichotomies on Church Mission, Cultures, and Generations in a Polarizing World

Narry Santos


Biblical-Theological Model of the Church

Templum in Mundo: Liturgical Retrieval and the Maturing of Evangelical Missiology and Missions

Eric Burrows-Stone

Biblical-Theological Model of the Church

The Irreducible Ecclesiological Minimum: Terminus or Starting Point in Church Planting?

J.D. Payne

Biblical-Theological Model of the Church

Narrative Dynamic Ecclesiology: Organization and Operation of the Church

Enoch Wan

Biblical-Theological Model of the Church

Revisiting “Who Really Sent the First Missionaries” – the Role of the Local Church in the Sending of Missionaries

Marvin Newell

Biblical-Theological Model of the Church

Transforming Ecclesiology: Bridging Ecclesiology and Missiology through Relational Interactionism

Soo Min (James) Park

Biblical-Theological Model of the Church

Mission to the Nations: An Ecclesiological Perspective

Nestor Abdon

Historical and Case Studies

Modality and Sodality Collaboration in Missions: A Biblical and Contemporary Case Study from Ephesus to the Netherlands

Daniel (Sung Ho) Ahn

Historical and Case Studies

Missional Ecclesiology: Past, Present, and Future

Shawn Behan

Historical and Case Studies

Using Henry Venn’s “Three Selfs” to Nurture the Mission of Rural & Small-Town Churches in Post-Christendom Canada

Peter Bush

Historical and Case Studies

Evaluating ‘Missions within Reach’ Thirty Years Later

Sherman Lau

Historical and Case Studies

Identity, Security, and Ecclesiology: Missionary Relationships to Expatriate Christians and Churches in Restricted Access Nations

A.G. Smith

Historical and Case Studies

The History of Short-Term Missions and Why It Is Important for the Modern Church

Rachel Stewart

Historical and Case Studies

Insider Movements and the West

Chris Robershaw

Historical and Case Studies

Deconstructing Church and Reconstructing Creation: Canadian Missiology as “Righting the Canoe”

Peter Schuurman

Historical and Case Studies

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Mandate for Females to Wear Traditional Muslim Clothing – the Manteau and Rousari – and the Church’s Response

Philip Hopkins

Methods

Reimagining Mission in a Digital Age: The Church’s Role in Gaming Communities

Andrew Feng

Methods

Academia Proxenia: A Framework for Engaging the Academy for Mission

Timothy Nagy

Methods

Commonsense Christian Ecclesiology: The Church and Mission Working in Unity to Fulfill the Great Commission

C. Tim Chang

Methods

Deep Listening in Christian-Muslim Engagement: A Decolonial Vision for Mission

Jose Abraham

Methods

From “Churching” to Full Church Integration: Church planting with red-light communities in Kolkata

Sydney Dixon

Methods

How the Church Can Mobilize for Mission Using Culinary Art

Ellie Asker

Methods

Collaborate: An Interactive Collaboration Process at the Lausanne Movement Congress in Incheon, Korea

Anna Chow

Methods

Creative Problem-Solving for Missions: Training Churches in Innovation Using Design Thinking

Nick Wu

Methods

Will God Save my Avatar?: The Vitality of the Doctrine of Embodiment for Successful Digital Engagement by Local Churches

Coy Orion Merry

Methods

Contextualization in the Caste System

Jennifer Daehling

Training, Sending, and Going

An Intercultural Relational Model for Transformative Training in Mission

Estera Piroşcă Escobar

Training, Sending, and Going

Mission as Ecclesiatical Diffusion: The ‘two-structures’ in transition

Alan Totire

Training, Sending, and Going

Viewing Ralph Winter’s Modality and Sodality through the Lens of John Flett’s Trinitarian Theology

Robert Reese

Training, Sending, and Going

Local or Global? Global Christianity, secularization and the bifurcation of mission

Tim Silberman

Training, Sending, and Going

Understanding the Role of Cultural Memory in Church Ecclesiological Structure Commission

Roy Oksnevad

Training, Sending, and Going

Generational Differences in Mental Health and Other Ministry Challenges: Boomer and Gen Z Missionaries Need Each Other

David R. Dunaetz

Training, Sending, and Going

Movemental Ecclesiology: Recovering a Pre-Christendom Hermeneutic of Church Multiplication

Wes Watkins

Training, Sending, and Going

Called By Whom, To What, To Where? A Critique of Co-Vocationalism

Austin Holcomb

Training, Sending, and Going

A Preliminary Survey of Support Available for Marketplace Participants Transitioning to Vocational Ministry

Rommel Acob

Multiculturality and Immigration

Reading Isaiah Missiologically from Black and White Perspectives

Sean Christensen

Multiculturality and Immigration

Shared Altars: How experiences with ethnic diversity, multiculturality, oneness, intentionality and togetherness contribute to churches’ cross-cultural postures

Kenneth Nehrbass

Multiculturality and Immigration

New Congregations in the Canadian Kaleidoscope: An autoethnographic analysis of thirty new congregations in the Waterloo region

James Watson

Multiculturality and Immigration

Qualitative Research on Bilingual Worship in the Churches of the Baptist Missionary Association of America

Ricky Williams

Multiculturality and Immigration

Perceptions of SC Evangelicals on Immigrants

Ryan Klejment-Lavin

Multiculturality and Immigration

The Vital Role of Local Urban Missionary Outreach to the Poor and Homeless in Major U.S. Cities

Glen Bagley

Multiculturality and Immigration

Rebalancing Ecclesial Life Around the Greatest Commandment: The Oikos as the Foundational Context of Church and Discipleship

Manuel Becker

Multiculturality and Immigration

The Influence of Christian Faith Sharing through Social Media on Christian and Non-Christian Young Adults

Glen Bowman

Additional Presentations

Responding to God Draws Near

Colin Cornell

Additional Presentations

The Becoming Church: An Essential Mark for a Church on Mission

Ryan Gimple

Anglican

Looking Back to See the Future: How 19th Century Anglican Mission Agencies Evangelized the Globe

Brad Roderick

Anglican

Missionary Bishops: Historical Models and Their Significance for Today

Ed Smither

Anglican

Developing the Diaconate in the Latin American Context

Tara Jernigan

Anglican

Planting an Anglican Diocese (or two) in the Horn of Africa (1980s – 2025): Bridges and Barriers

Grant LaMarquand

Anglican

Shoki Coe’s Contextualization and Cross-cultural Anglican Ministry Today

Duane Miller

Anglican

Anglican Ecclesiology in the Japanese Context

Aaron Pelot

Anglican

Restoring Anglican Missionary Ecclesiology: Roland Allen’s Theology of Spirit & Order

Steve Rutt

Anglican

Ekkios Church: A New Anglican Province for Muslim Background Believers

Yassir Eric

Orality

Looking at Ourselves in the Mirror of God’s Word: Relational Transformational Growth through Orality

Roberto Aguayo

Orality

Expressions of Orality in the Diaspora Romanian Evangelical Church: A Case Study

Estera Piroşcă Escobar

Orality

Relational Oral Hermeneutics

Soo Min (James) Park

Orality

Telling the Story of the Forgiving Father: Intergenerational Drama in Chinese Diaspora Churches

Jessie Weili Yin

Orality

Moving Beyond Intercultural Competency Through the Intercultural Relational Quotient: Orality-Aligned Theory, Training, and Practice for Intercultural Interactions

Hannah Kapler

Orality

Watching for a Glimpse into Eternity: A Case for Relational Hermeneutics in Secular, Fictional Narratives Through the Lens of Silence

Heesun Nam

Orality

Implementing Orality Values at Calvary San Diego: A Case Study in Relational Discipleship

Phil Metzger

Orality

Listening to Ourselves: Reading the Bible as We Proclaim It

Nick Acker

Orality

Roundtable Discussion on Missions Journals

David Dunaetz

ISFM

Culture and the Gathering of Disciples of Jesus in Frontier Mission Contexts

HL Richard

ISFM

Detoxifying Christianity Through Reimagining Ecclesiology: How Frontier Missiology Can Reform Harmful Practices and Cultivate a Healthier Global Church

Manuel Becker

ISFM

Seeking Fellowship Without Alienating Family: Practitioner Reflections from the Hindu World at the 2025 Rethinking Forum

Scott Walker

ISFM

Mentoring from Everywhere to Everywhere

Perlita Tan

ISFM

The Church in Egypt: From a Mission Field to a Mission Force

Tharwat Wahba

ISFM

Mission History in Viswema Offers a Strategy for Evangelizing Longchang

Richard Haney

ISFM

5 Reasons Nomads Think “Church” Is a Bad Idea (and What to Do About It): Voices from a Seven-Culture Panel Discussion

Ron Ahlbrecht

ISFM

Staurocentric Missiology: Toward a cross-centered Missional Model

Uchenna Anyanwu

ISFM

Cross-caste Training for India’s Kingdom Work : Engaging India’s Majority OBCs

Yash Koli

ISFM

The Future of Frontier Missions: Converging Peoples, Nodes, and Villages

Rotimi Akinpelu

Arts

Restoring the Body: Arts and Trauma Healing as Missional Ecclesiology

Beth Argot

Arts

Poetry Is Our Program: Subversive Strategies for Kingdom Community

Kyle Lee

Arts

Soul Care for Creatives in the Church

Jhonny Nieto Ossa

Arts

The Enduring Resonance of Indigenous Hymnody in Brazilian Churches

Héber Negrão

Arts

Worship in Wartime: Reimagining Church Identity and Mission through Indigenous Song in Ukraine

Robin Harris

Arts

Temple to Church and Back: Gospel Taiwanese Opera as a Transformative Medium

Dora Kung

Arts

Connecting Missionally through Sacred Ritual?

Becky Robertson

Arts

Diverse Multicultural Worship in Metropolitan Church Planting

Laura Roberts

Arts

Building Intercultural Church Through Co-Creation

Joy Kim

Arts

Create! The New Testament mandate to the church for creating local, culturally-appropriate arts for use in worship and witness

James R. Krabill

Missiology and the Black Experience

Learning from the Margins: A Case Study in Reforming Western Missiological Praxis: Recovering Mission through Reformed Theology and Majority World Wisdom

Morgan Davis

Missiology and the Black Experience

Best Practices for Thriving as a Doctoral Student

Jamie Sanchez

Missiology and the Black Experience

I’ll Take You There: The Missiology of Soul Music and African American Preaching in the Post-Soul Era

Edward Williams

Missiology and the Black Experience

Breaking Free from the Straightjacket of Denominational Colonialism…the Maasai, and the Five Self Church

Kurtran Wright

Publications Panel

William Carey Press Publications Discussion

Vivian Doub

Welcome and Plenary A

What A Coup Taught Me About Ecclesiology and Missions

Jean Johnson

Welcome and Plenary B

We believe in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church: The church and the mission of God in the Nicene Creed

Grant LeMarquand

Welcome and Plenary C

Tribes, Tongues, Peoples, and Nations: A biblical theology of a stock phrase

Zane Pratt

Overnight Global Region Session

Ecclesiology as Missiology: John Eliot’s Theology of Missions

Jacob Boyd

Overnight Global Region Session

The Church as a Priesthood

Samuel Rajkumar

Overnight Global Region Session

Remember the ladies: the need to recognize gender dynamics in church planting movement strategies

Eliza Kettering

Overnight Global Region Session

Dynamics of Multicultural Team Diversity: Responses to Cultural Differences Between Team Members

Jim Derksen

Overnight Global Region Session

Polycentric Leadership in Practice: Rethinking Congregational Engagement in Today’s Complex Reality

Joe Handley