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Good Intentions

Rob — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:30:44 +0000

Sometimes our best intentions can create more problems than they solve.

This relates to missions as well (or should I say “especially”!)

When in another culture, whether it’s for a week or a summer or for a few years, we don’t have the cultural insights that locals do, so it is imperative that we defer to their judgment in matters of security and cultural sensitivity.

If we are going to effectively communicate the gospel to the people of Yueyang, we must strive to remove Western cultural distinctives from the message and present the simple truth of the gospel. Quite often, we approach the task of spreading the gospel with the best of intentions, but when we don’t take care to avoid our tendencies for ethnocentrism, we sometimes do more harm than good!

German Coast Guard

Rob — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:30:03 +0000

Communication can be difficult, cross-cultural communication can be very difficult! This advertisement illustrates in a funny way some of the challenges well-intentioned people sometimes experience when trying to communicate cross-culturally.

More than 3,000 people in China skip rope to break world record

Rob — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:36:45 +0000

BEIJING: A group of 3,009 people set a world record recently in central China, becoming the largest group to skip rope at one time, state media reported.

The participants ranged in age from 5 to 68, and skipped rope for three minutes, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Officials with Guinness World Records were on hand in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, and acknowledged the feat, Xinhua said. The previous record was set by 2,474 people on January 23, 2005, in Hong Kong.

The ropes used Thursday will be sent to 30 elementary schools in rural Hunan to spread the Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger,” sponsors said.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/12/asia/AS-ODD-China-Rope-Skipping.php