Category Archives: Cross-Culture Issues

The Camel Rider’s Journal

By Scott Pittman | Published: October 28, 2009

The Camel Workshop Need training on how to witness to Muslims? Whether you’re planning to work with people of the Islam faith across town or across the globe, The Camel Workshop provides a field tested method for preparing your team. It utilizes an interactive workbook and DVD, designed to teach the missions-minded layperson how to [...]

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Evangelism Goals for Mission Projects

By Scott Pittman | Published: August 24, 2009

Adapted from the Texas Partnerships Volunteer Manual Most mission teams like to return home with glowing reports of large numbers of decisions that were made during their mission project. Indeed we all like to hear of about those kind of results, and of course, there’s nothing wrong with that desire. However, a lack of understanding of [...]

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TOP TEN Overseas Stress Relievers

By Scott Pittman | Published: July 27, 2009

Stress can be the underlying cause of various problems a team or individual might experience while overseas. Stress is inevitable when people are taken out of their “comfort zone” and placed into the “twilight zone.” Here are some tips that can help you and your team avoid being robbed by the effects of stress: #10 – [...]

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The Love Chapter for Cross-Cultural Workers

By Scott Pittman | Published: July 22, 2009

A Guide to Culture If I speak with the tongue of a national, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I wear the national dress and understand the culture and all forms of etiquette, and if I copy all mannerisms so that I could pass for a [...]

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Witnessing in Another World

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 31, 2009

As a missionary in Brazil I was amazed how people could believe, profess, and practice things that were incompatible. It was illogical to me that someone could profess to believe in God while at the same time pray to a saint to gain penance or offer a sacrifice to Imanja, the goddess of the sea, [...]

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Top Ten Volunteer Mistakes

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 30, 2009

Top 10 Mistakes I’ve Seen Volunteers Commit: #10. Call the female of a missionary couple “the missionary’s wife” I actually remember a volunteer asking a female missionary if she would take a picture of him with “all the missionaries,” meaning all the male missionaries. The IMB appoints both husband and wife as missionaries, and they [...]

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Bridges of God

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 27, 2009

A major contribution to mission strategy is Donald A. McGavran’s 1955 classic book, The Bridges of God. In it he presents a concept still prevalent in today’s thinking: that of building bridges or relationships between believers and those without Christ.1 What exactly did McGavran mean by that? He observed that most mission strategies of his [...]

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