2014
January/February Making Sense of a Culture Dinner & Orientation Jan. 28 (starts 5:30 pm) Seminar sessions Jan. 29-Feb.13; seminar ends at 5 pm on 2/13 Departure Feb. 14 May Seeing a Culture...
View ArticleJanuary 28 – February 13 “Making Sense of a Culture”
January 28 – February 13 “Making Sense of a Culture” WorldView training seminar 503-235-3818 or office@iiccworldview.org
View ArticleJanuary 14 – Second Tuesday Mission Update Lunch
Second Tuesday Mission Update Lunch Tuesday, November 12, 12:00-2:00 at WorldView Center Steve and Joann Price will report on their Fall sabbatical in Europe RSVP for lunch to 503-235-3818 or...
View ArticleDecember 7 – WorldView Center—decorating for Christmas
WorldView Center—decorating for Christmas Saturday, December 7—brunch—10:00; decorating 12-5 p.m. Join the residents and staff to decorate our building for the celebration of Christ’s birth. RSVP for...
View ArticleWelcome to Intercultural Reflections!
A seed is planted and begins to grow – hidden from view under the protection of soil. Even after the young shoot pokes above ground, the roots remain invisible, hidden. Those hidden roots bring...
View ArticleTea and Bananas
Recently I was thinking of a story* set in Indonesia that involves a lower class man and an upper class woman who began meeting secretly. After a time they decided to get married. As was the custom in...
View ArticleIndividualism and Collectivism: clearing up some misconceptions
I recently heard a friend of mine condemning individualism. She argued that America’s individualistic culture fosters unhealthy levels of selfishness and self-reliance. This sentiment is not unique to...
View ArticleMissionaries Don’t Really Need to Learn Culture, do they?
We’ve heard people say, “the gospel is universal; it’s the same here as it is in India or Mexico.” And, “missionaries have spread the gospel all over the world, with little linguistic and cultural...
View ArticleDo Missionaries Really Need to Learn Culture? (Part 2)
In my last blog post I talked about why missionaries need to learn culture in order to effectively communicate the gospel. When a missionary understands their host culture they are more likely to...
View ArticleLearning Culture 101
WorldView specializes in helping missionaries learn how to enter a culture that is different from their own. In other words, WorldView seminar participants learn how to learn the language and culture...
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From the Outside, In
Missionaries are often outsiders; ambassadors of Christ in a culture that is different from the one they grew up in. As outsiders they have to learn to understand a new culture in order to communicate...
View ArticleEaster Meditation
Do I really know God? I have been His follower since I was three; I read the Bible, I pray routinely; yet I still find myself wondering if I really know God. When I stop to meditate on His glory, His...
View ArticleObserving the Overwhelming
Close your eyes and picture the street outside your house. How many houses are there? What color are they? How do people travel up and down the road . . . walking, bicycling, driving? Are there plants...
View ArticleWhat I Mean and What I Say
Paul sat down at the table, impatient for the meeting to begin. He knew just what would take the church to its next phase of growth and he was bursting to tell the rest of the elder board. In fact,...
View ArticleCambodia and Culture-Learning
One of the questions Mark and I received in advance of our May trip to Cambodia was, what’s the goal of culture-learning? That question came from missionaries who have taken one version or another of...
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