I love the word “missional” and what it emphasizes. We’re not supposed to “do” missionary and evangelistic work, we’re supposed to “be” it all the time. The phrase “missional church” sounds just about perfect to me, and in my opinion it’s a great catchword for churches and for Christians. But I’m a missionary organization leadership [...]

It shouldn’t surprise me after all this time, but it still does: most American Christians still don’t realize the need for missionary work in Europe. The urgent need is certainly very real there (meaning there aren’t many Christians or churches), and the door is open. And of course the command of the Lord to go [...]

Since we’re launching our GoConnect trips to Europe in a big way right now, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how mission trips have played an enormous role in my life. To be fair, I guess I’d have to say I was always theoretically, maybe theologically interested in missions. It’s hard to read the [...]

The jury is pretty much in now, and I think it’s fair to say that I’m permanently interested in missions, permanently consumed with reaching Europe with the message of hope in Jesus, permanently fascinated with all that’s involved in church planting in the countries of this awe-inspiringly complex continent. I’m also very interested in travel [...]

If you have never been on a short term mission trip or traveled to Europe it can be hard to get a good idea of what you’ll see and face. Here is a first hand account of Marco and Amy, two missionaries in Germany. Before deciding to become missionaries, they visited our headquarters in Germany [...]

Sometimes we can be interested in something many years before we actually do anything about it. I’ve heard quite a few people say this about missions. The problem can often be not knowing where to start, or where to get your foot in the door. If this describes your situation, Kontaktmission USA has the perfect [...]