Ministering Cross Culturally

Albert & Honi, Tenali VBS

"Get out of your comfort zone." "Take the risk." "Step out of the boat and trust Jesus." These are just a few of the slogans I’ve heard over the years to challenge youth and adults to join in cross-cultural ministry and service.

Why, because we in North America love our comfort, predictability, and security. So, asking people to join us in cross-cultural service is a truly counter-cultural challenge. Short-term missions often take us to places and cultures that are spontaneous—in contrast to our lives of predictability—lacking our western comforts and, in some cases, truly dangerous.

Cross-cultural ministry means that we need to train people to be flexible and ready to change direction; we might get asked to preach with three minutes notice. We will find ourselves in the middle of strange customs where we really do not know what's going on.

Our meals may consist of food we've never seen before. Our attempts at communication may be confusing or worse misinterpreted.  In short, we will find ourselves more dependent on God and less on ourselves—which is, after all, one of the great outcomes of short-term missions. 

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"Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?" — William Carey

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Pray for the Unreached Bania, Mahesri of India 

Population: 492,000
World Popl: 495,000
Main Language: Hindi
Main Religion: Hinduism
Bible: Complete
Status: Least-Reached
Christ-Followers: Few, less than 2%

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