Sawai Chinnawong, of Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, is well known in Asia for his portrayals of Biblical imagery in a traditional Thai graphic idiom. He was the Paul T. Lauby artist in residence at OMSC in 2003-2004.

"My work represents influences from many styles...I believe Jesus Christ is present in every culture, and I have chosen to celebrate his presence in our lives through Thai traditional cultural forms.      My belief is that Jesus did not choose just one people to hear his Word, but chose to make his home in every human heart. And just as his Word may be spoken in every language, so the visual message can be shared in the beauty of the many styles of artistry around the world."

http://cac-ib-geography.wikispaces.com/Migration+maps

“… the total number of international migrants living around the world has grown substantially over the past fifty years, climbing from about 80 million people in 1960 to about 214 million in 2010, a rise in percentage of the world’s population from 2.6 to 3.1…. Christians and Muslims make up a disproportionate number of global migrants. Christians constitute nearly half (49 percent) of the world’s 214 million migrants, whereas Muslims make up the second largest share, at 27 percent. Thus, together they make up 76 percent of the world’s migrants, even though they represent only 55 percent of the world’s population.”

Another study confirmed “859 million people (12.5 percent of the global population) from 327 ethnolinguistic peoples in diasporas around the world. [These] results showed that while Christians and Muslims make up 55.3 percent of the world’s population, they represent 72.8 percent of all people in diaspora. In addition, the continuing trend of religious migration around the world is both increasing and intensifying religious diversity, especially in the former ‘Christian West’.”

Multidirectional Christian Church/Mission History

http://www.wadsworth.com/religion_d/special_features/popups/maps/schmidt_patterns/content/map_49.html

Five Big Pictures (Review) Art World History Migrations Mission Movements Multi-dimensional Analysis

Cf. Jennings’ Childhood Worldview

Live and serve faithfully where you are and wherever you go.

Live and serve compassionately. Acknowledge God’s sovereign providence

and your own finitude. Collaborate with all sorts of people. Be humble and learn. Share sincerely with others.

Migrations Tragedies, Injustices, Inequities “Lay” Missions

Denominational-Congregational Initiatives Mission Agency Internationalization Diversification – www.lausanne.org

UPG’s, e.g., http://www.ghana2013.org/uupglist Holistic Emphases

New and Creative Partnerships International Networks, e.g.,

Megachurches Ongoing Blurring of Demarcations

WCC-Evangelical Denominational

Foreign-mission sending agencies 4,900 Foreign missionaries 426,000

Personal income of church members $33,270 billion

Giving to Christian causes $594 billion Income of global foreign missions $33 billion Ecclesiastical crime $37 billion

Missionaries 19,798 Mission agencies 167 Receiving countries 175 Deployment (percentage) by

continent/region: Asia 52.9 Latin America 5.2 Eastern Europe 1.9

Eurasia/former USSR 9.2 Middle East 4.5 North America 9.4 Western Europe 5.0 Africa 7.3 Oceania 1.9 Other 2.7

Deployment (percentage) by ethnic/linguistic focus: non-Korean 89.2 ethnic Korean 8.1 non-Korean and

ethnic Korean 2.7 Member Care Developments

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/ http://www.aljazeera.com/ http://www.operationworld.org/today

Live and serve faithfully where you are and wherever you go.

Live and serve compassionately. Acknowledge God’s sovereign providence

and your own finitude. Collaborate with all sorts of people. Be humble and learn. Share sincerely with others.