As God's Church adjusts to changing global conditions in the 21st century, we realize that everything changes except two things: Our God and our message. In this installment of Mission Essentials, seminary student Chris Troutman explores mission shifts as he sees them.

Imagine this: a river and jungle so dark it would not be possible to see anything without artificial light. And every two seconds, throughout the forest, shine thousands of tiny warm lights, illuminating everything as if it were noon.

As we have left the 20th century to enter the 21st, major shifts in culture and globalization have changed Nazarene missions and its worldwide context forever. Read more about it in this week's installment of our Mission Essentials series.

Vistas is an excellent primer for the reader who wants a snapshot of trends in Nazarene missions. Amidst change, we are called to remember the timeless practices that keep the mission enterprise aloft and to incorporate them in our own lives.

I had a call to missions since a young girl, but was unable to fulfill the call until I became an adult and was able to use the gifts of language that God has given me by assisting in different Work & Witness trips to Mexico.