The authors bring over 25 years of experience with multicultural teams, initially as team members of such teams, and more recently as coaches for multicultural teams that serve globally. An experienced professor and practitioner among Muslims reviews and recommends the book heartily for new and recently formed multicultural teams.

McKnight is a world-renowned New Testament scholar and seminary professor in the United States with a passion for local churches being comprised of different peoples and viewpoints. A practitioner in South Asia reflects on the value he found in this book along with the cultural challenges of applying its proposals in his context.

Last year, Christian mission statesman and scholar Andrew Walls finished his race. One of the first to draw attention to the shift in the center of gravity of world Christianity to the Global South, Walls identified seminal themes and principles which continue to reverberate in our understanding and practice of mission. A practitioner in North Africa reflects on the relevance of one of Walls’s classical works for navigating cross-cultural ministry in Africa and beyond.

Muslim women comprise 12% of the world population, yet most mission strategies and trainings highlight the voices and perspectives of men reaching heads of households. A female scholar-practitioner commends and evaluates a recent book by another female scholar seeking to address this gap, highlighting the multi-layered experience of Muslim women for those seeking to serve and reach them.

A 2017 conference gathered together nearly 1000 practitioners from all over the world with an average of 20 years of experience, including 25% Muslim background believers (MBBs), 25% women, and 50% from the Global South. From this conference, a group of authors were chosen to write on fruitful ministry to Muslims from a variety of angles. A practitioner in the Middle East reviews this important book and its implications for his church-planting team, his family, and his ministry among Muslims.

While many believe church-planting movements are the best thing happening in mission, Rhodes believes they bypass the hard work necessary to accomplish biblical mission. A PCA practitioner of church-planting movements in the Middle East evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Rhodes’ proposal in a careful, irenic review.

Most cross-cultural workers and virtually all of those working in Eastern contexts will encounter patronage–the reciprocal relationship between social “unequals,” or patrons and clients. A practitioner in South Asia provides a robust engagement with this book introducing patronage to readers as central not only to many majority-world cultures but also to the world of the Bible.

Presentations from the Korean Global Mission Leaders Forum in November 2021 were published in this book, the second edited by Jonathan Bonk on money and missions. A practitioner in South Asia who has previously written on this topic for Seedbed evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of this compendium for frontier workers.

According to this co-authored review, this book’s overall strength is the presentation of a holistic model for both personal and relational formation in Christ as applied to spheres of life not typically associated with spiritual formation, such as racial reconciliation, healthy sexuality, and service. It is through transformation in these spheres of life that readers can become better equipped for functioning in multi-cultural church planting teams.