Effective Intercultural Communication (Encountering Mission)

Effective Intercultural Communication (Encountering Mission)
Author: A. Scott Moreau
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441245936

With the development of instantaneous global communication, it is vital to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. This addition to the acclaimed Encountering Mission series is designed to offer contemporary intercultural communication insights to mission students and practitioners. Authored by leading missionary scholars with significant intercultural experience, the book explores the cultural values that show up in intercultural communication and examines how we can communicate effectively in a new cultural setting. Features such as case studies, tables, figures, and sidebars are included, making the book useful for classrooms.

Media in Church and Mission:

Media in Church and Mission:
Author: Viggo Sogaard
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1645082423

Although written before much of the revolution in digital media, this book provides a lot of useful strategic input for those involved in media and Scripture Engagement.

Communication Theory for Christian Witness

Communication Theory for Christian Witness
Author: Charles H. Kraft
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 160833239X

In this revision of a long-enduring classic, Kraft draws upon faith experience and the social sciences to make pastors, preachers, missionaries, and religious educators aware of the mystery of human communication in the service of God who calls all into communion. The question is how to communicate with these other cultures so that the message is effectively transmitted and received? How to we recognize the gaps--of language, tradition, life experience--that separate us and build bridges over them.

Strategies to Enhance Air Force Communication with Internal and External Audiences

Strategies to Enhance Air Force Communication with Internal and External Audiences
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2016-01-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0309389046

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) helps defend the United States and its interests by organizing, training, and equipping forces for operations in and through three distinct domains-air, space, and cyberspace. The Air Force concisely expresses its vision as "Global Vigilance, Global Reach, and Global Power for America." Operations within each of these domains are dynamic, take place over large distances, occur over different operational timelines, and cannot be routinely seen or recorded, making it difficult for Airmen, national decision makers, and the American People to visualize and comprehend the full scope of Air Force operations. As a result, the Air Force faces increasing difficulty in succinctly and effectively communicating the complexity, dynamic range, and strategic importance of its mission to Airmen and to the American people. To address this concern, the Chief of Staff of the USAF requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convene a workshop to explore options on how the Air Force can effectively communicate the strategic importance of the Service, its mission, and the role it plays in the defense of the United States. Participants worked to address the issues that a diverse workforce encompassing a myriad of backgrounds, education, and increasingly diverse current mission sets drives the requirement for a new communication strategy. The demographics of today's Air Force creates both a unique opportunity and a distinct challenge to Air Force leadership as it struggles to communicate its vision and strategy effectively across several micro-cultures within the organization and to the general public. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

The Church and Communication

The Church and Communication
Author: Patrick Granfield
Publisher: Communication, Culture & Theol
Total Pages: 237
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781556126741

The Church and Communication is an en-depth study of the central communication in the Church.

Intercultural Communication for Christian Ministry

Intercultural Communication for Christian Ministry
Author: Frank Tucker
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781490311142

This book is amongst the most comprehensive work on intercultural communication theory and practice for cross-cultural Christian workers since the 1991 publication of David Hesselgrave's 'Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally: An Introduction to Missionary Communication'. It is written for the serious reader in Christian cross-cultural ministry and for graduate and postgraduate study. It considers significant developments in the electronic media such as the Internet, smart phone and other electronic resources. Thinking styles, psychology of art, ethnomusic, ethnodrama and methods of oral communication are included. Gender issues and the importance of personal relationships as a context for Christian ministry are explored as well as ethical issues in communication and issues in communicating with oral-aural people, shame-honour and fear-power cultures. It seeks to be culturally inclusive although it reflects the writer's culture of origin. The use of case histories and critical incidents are used to illustrate the text and ground the theory in reality. A companion website is provided for digital resources: video clips, ethnomusic, ethnodrama, visual arts, case histories, case studies and learning facilitator resources.

Transforming Communication

Transforming Communication
Author: Dr. Vee J. D-Davidson
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310124395

Effectively communicate Christ across Cultures The gospel message transcends cultures, but human communication does not. In Transforming Communication missionary and professor Vee J. D-Davidson provides principles for the intercultural communication of Christ. Using her twenty-five-plus years of experience teaching as a Westerner in Asia as a starting point, Davidson provides transferable principles that encourage awareness of context-specific issues and that see opportunities for intercultural communication as wholly unique opportunities, regardless of any perceived communication barriers. Readers from multiple different cultures will be able to apply the principles presented by use of relevant examples, illustrations, and enlightening insights provided from a wide range of Global South and Global North multicultural and intercultural perspectives. Transforming Communication offers practical principles to encourage and challenge Christian readers to build relationships that might well require engaging with issues that bring them out of their comfort zone but, the book also offers insights and encouraging devotional nuggets that feed into a triad of knowledge-impartation, self-examination and challenge, along with spiritual enrichment for the task.

Mission in Context: In Search of Asian Strategic Communication of the Gospel

Mission in Context: In Search of Asian Strategic Communication of the Gospel
Author: Thang Deih Lian Davidlianno
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2018-05-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1387800620

There is a profusion of missional issues emerging in the Asian fields that call Christ's followers to actively witnessing the Truth. Missionaries from different continents have come to serve the Asian nations, and yet, these God's loving missionaries' effectiveness often seem to have left in the shade by some damaging fruits and (sometimes) being too much of Westernness stemming from a diversity of lacking knowledge particularly the local contexts to contextualize, and lack of preparation. The irrefutable finding is appealing within the Asian mission study in regard to the essentiality in equipping the Christians so that the ministries in Asia will experience the effectiveness in cultivating the diverse contexts (cultures) with the text (Scripture) they have. Many principles and practical information from this book grew out of the authors' experiences and the reflection of Missiologists and scholars such as Andrew Walls, Christopher Wright, Kazoh Kitamori, Paul Hiebert, etc.