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