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Cross-Cultural Communication

What difficulties in communication do cross-cultural workers face? How can these best be addressed in various settings?

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Tsunami Disaster Relief: A Tale of Two Churches

by Kevin Jones (pseudonym) and Sunny Hong

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami was one of the deadliest and far-reaching natural disasters in recorded history. Disaster relief efforts poured in from many places—locally all the way to the international level—bringing assistance to the many affected areas. One such area was an Asian seaside village inhabited by a minority indigenous people group. The purpose of this article is to show how disaster relief efforts in this case created a dynamic in which the church of the country’s majority people group became a rival to the church of the minority indigenous people group—because of an apparent lack of sensitivity to certain cultural issues—so that the lessons learned from this case study could be useful for future cross-cultural ministry opportunities.

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Book Review: African Heartbeat

by Editor

In his novel, African Heartbeat and a Vulnerable Fool, Jim Harries gives the Western reader an opportunity to vicariously experience an immersion in African culture with all its confusing reality. It is based on true stories and events, and takes place in the fictional African country of Holima.This book would be a good resource for prospective cross-cultural workers to help them be aware of what they are “going to meet up with” (p. 165).

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