Beyond the White Noise: Mission in a Multicultural World

By Tom Montgomery Fate

In an intricately woven book of personal essays based on his missionary service in the Philippines, the author shares hard-won insights into how we can replace the old, neocolonial concept of mission... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0827202237
• ISBN13: 9780827202238
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Chalice Pr
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Read this book before you travel

This book should be required reading for anyone planning an overseas mission trip. This book emphasis DOING WITH rather than DOING FOR. It points out the flaws in a patronistic mission philosophy and introduces a way to improve your own view of other cultures and open your mind to a multiculture society and world. Read!

Are you open to other cultures? Do you really know them?

This book opened my eyes on how a person must feel when we (US christians) try to come to their country to "save them" and make them have a better world. Perhaps our methods and ideals are not theirs. I never realized how we are trying to plant our way of life and change theirs. We must first learn their culture and not impress our way of life on them.

What does the developing world have to teach us?

The book uses interesting anecdotes to take the reader on a jouney of self-discovery. In the midst of the author's missionary experience in the Phillipines - he is constantly learning what it means to be human, from those he is supposed to be serving.