Veteran missionary David Hesselgrave and rising missional expert Ed Stetzer ("Breaking the Missional Code") have compiled and edited this engrossing textbook of new essays on missions and missiology suitable for course work as well as vocational and volunteer Christian workers.

Major sections include The Mission, Indigeneity and Contextualization, and Issues and Strategies in Mission with chapters on "The Mission Situation at the Start of the Third Millennium," "Understanding and Exegeting Culture," "Implications of Globalization," "Church Planting and Movements," "The Islamic Challenge," and more.