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Mission without Conquest: An Alternative Missionary Practice is unavailable, but you can change that!

Almost sixty years ago, the Mennonite missionary team working in the Argentine Chaco decided to look for ways to be effective in their ministry while being faithful to Jesus’ lifestyle and teaching. They left behind paternalistic models and “conquering” methods and were liberated from the mindset of forming a denominational church. As a result, they found an alternative missionary style of...

are pointing a new way toward holistic mission, Toba Qom style. Truly God moves in mysterious ways to bring about wonders. Persons shaped within an indigenous spirituality often feel a need to dance their emotions. At a deep level, this is a form of prayer, built on an innate impulse to express truth in physical, concrete manners. An elderly believer recently confided to me that when he began dancing his joy during a thanksgiving prayer in church for gifts received, the visiting non-indigenous pastor
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