We Are Not the Hero
A Missionary’s Guide to Sharing Christ, Not a Culture of Dependency
Jean Johnson
9781937756451
304 pages
Deep River Books Llc
Overview
While globalization gives North American Christians unprecedented opportunities to influence the world, we need to take care not to slip into a type of postmodern colonialism in which we make ourselves the experts or the 'hero come to save the day.' The day has come when all of us who influence or practice missions need to intentionally guide others to look to God and to their own communities for resources, solutions, creativity, ingenuity, hard work, and interdependence, instead of making them perpetual recipients of all the good things we can do for them. In We Are Not the Hero, missionary Jean Johnson shares lessons learned from her sixteen years in Cambodia, in an area known as the Killing Fields, including why our North American culture, church experiences, and financial solutions to church growth will not work elsewhere.
Author Bio
Jean Johnson served as a missionary with the Assemblies of God for sixteen years in Cambodia. Presently, she is an international teacher, trainer, and coach with World Mission Associates in Lancaster, PA. Jean holds a BA in cross-cultural communications from North Central University, Minneapolis, MN, where she worked as a missionary-in-residence, developing curriculum and teaching classes on church planting, global perspectives, missiology, and language acquisition.
