by Brad Buser | Dec 17, 2016 | Radius Report
I wasn’t surprised as I heard the young woman’s story last week. As she was finishing up college, she had responded to an offer to go overseas and do ministry for 2 years working with foreign college students. The college students were capable of having some degree...
by Brad Buser | Nov 2, 2016 | Radius Report
I realize this is a touchy topic. It is difficult to address. Statistics on overall attrition cover some of this, but many missionaries who remain within a mission agency do not finish their primary mission. Of course the question “What does it mean to finish?” can...
by Brad Buser | Sep 23, 2016 | Radius Report, Resources
The short answer is… because healthy New Testament churches do not organically ‘spring up’ among new converts on their own. In the middle of Paul’s grand declaration in Eph 2:11-3:16, as he speaks of this new entity called ‘the church’, he states how the...
by Brad Buser | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Radius Report
There is little doubt that today the primary causes of missionary turnover are issues within the missionary family itself. Let me start off by saying that a huge amount of MKs thrive in their lives after leaving ‘the mission field’. It is also true that today, in...
