In To the Ends of the Earth: Building a National Missionary Sending Structure , Dr. Arto Hamalainen and Dr. Ulf Strohbehn provide a framework for building a national mission structure, based on many years of effective high-level leadership on the platform of a Spirit-filled collaborative community worldwide. -- Dr. Luis Bush, International Facilitator, Transform World Connections
To the Ends of the Earth: Building a National Missionary Sending Structure is timely for Spiritempowered mission to have practical components, while positioning mission communities towards decentralized local operations closely engaging given contexts. -- Dr. Wonsuk Ma, Dean College of Theology and Ministry, Distinguished Professor of Global Christianity, Oral Roberts University
I find To the Ends of the Earth: Building a National Missionary Sending Structure a blend of sound doctrine, ethical and practical Missionary handbook. -- Bishop Eli Rop, General Secretary Full Gospel Churches of Kenya Secretary Africa Pentecostal Mission Fellowship (APMF)
Doctors Arto Hamalainen and Ulf Strohbehn have created an amazing mission manual for the use of churches and leaders in To the Ends of the Earth: Building a National Missionary Sending Structure. I have had the privilege to closely follow Arto`s path to one of leading Pentecostal mission promoters in Europe and in all the world over two decades. -- Rev. Rauno Mikkonen, Chairman Pentecostal European Mission Committee
This book is a welcome resource for us to move forward, and take the vision and involvement of national movements starting out in missions to the next level. -- Rev. Brad Walz, Chairman World Assemblies of God Fellowship (WAGF) Missions’ Commission
Arto Hamalainen and Ulf Strohbehn in To The Ends of the Earth: Building a National Mission Structure provide a roadmap for greater global collaboration in fulfilling the Great Commission. They show the practical dynamics of missions’ strategy and structure, but all within the larger context of the Spirit’s dynamic work in and through the Church. -- Dr. Timothy C. Tennent, President Asbury Theological
Seminary
Dr. Arto Hamalainen, a Finnish Pentecostal Mission Director and missiologist, is chairman of the World Missions Commission of the Pentecostal World Fellowship (PWF), chairman of the Africa Pentecostal Mission Fellowship (APMF) and chairman of the Pentecostal Commission on the Religious Liberty (PCRL). He is holder of the Arto Hamalainen chair of the Mission Studies in the Continental Theological Seminary (CTS) in Belgium and is an Adjunct Faculty Member of the Global University ( hing ministry has taken place in about 60 countries. Dr Ulf Strohbehn, originally from Germany, is married to Kirsi with three daughters. He is a theologian and cultural anthropologist working with Fida International, the mission and development organization of the Finnish Pentecostal Churches. He has an international teaching ministry that helps local partners to start their own Bible and Mission Schools, for example, in Russia, Kosovo, Papua New Guinea, DR Congo, Malawi and Iraq. His published work focuses on church history, on the interplay of culture and religion and on spiritual formation.
