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New Skybridge Site

We have just completed a re-launch of our site. I hope you will check it out and join this community. Normally we have four categories of members 1. Those thinking about working in Europe and looking for ways to do that and prepare for being salt and light here. 2. People who are already working [...]

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a new type of missionary

Paris. Athens. Budapest. Frankfurt. Rome. Madrid. Vienna. Stockholm. Basel. The urban centers of Europe are the new frontier of missions. Stockbroker. Artist. Lawyer. Electrician. Professor. Programmer. And these are its missionaries. While Europe doesn’t often spring to Americans’ minds when they hear the word “missions,” the spiritual need in the region is overwhelming. Less than [...]

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Working in Europe

As you may know I am involved in a couple of missional networks. This week I have been working quite a bit on the Skybridge Community. In reading a post by Grady Bauer on MissionalSpace it reminded me again why we need networks of marketplace people and study abroad students, artists, etc.. living out their [...]

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Why Have a Normal Job?

I wanted to give you a short post about an initiative that we have been working as a part of the Upstream Collective. Somehow, intentionally or not, many American Christians were taught that being a professional missionary is a higher calling, the best and most appropriate way to respond to a call to missions. But [...]

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Doing Business WITH Mission

Ever heard the phrase in missions, “doing business as mission?” I’ve heard it used to describe professional missionaries who go to their respective fields with a platform (such as a business) to gain access into a closed country legally or to gain credibility among the people of a culture. We see some solid biblical examples [...]

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