A Just Mission, Mekdes Haddis
A Just Mission, Mekdes Haddis
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

A Just Mission
Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

Author: Mekdes Haddis

Narrator: Mekdes Haddis

Unabridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/06/2022


Synopsis

Why do American Christians travel overseas to reach people in distant lands, but neglect ministering to people who immigrate from those lands to their home communities? Why does Western missions funding depend on narratives that marginalize indigenous leadership? Why are diaspora Christians from the Global South not seen as legitimate missionaries to the West?

Western mission often still centers the senders, without as much understanding of the experiences of the receivers. Mekdes Haddis, an Ethiopian now living in the United States, provides a postcolonial critique of Western mission, upending the white savior complex and arguing for a more globally just approach. A Just Mission examines evangelical mission from the perspective of the receiver, highlighting areas of weakness and naming injustices.

Unveiling the negative impact of Western mission on the global church, Haddis addresses how white supremacy infiltrates and subverts mission organizations' good intentions, disrupting grassroots missions and local leadership development. Weaving together theology and Scripture with stories from people of color and diaspora groups, A Just Mission offers hope that the mission and message of Jesus can indeed become good news for all.

About Mekdes Haddis

Mekdes Haddis is the founder and executive coach of Just Missions, an online community for missionaries, mission professionals, and ministry leaders seeking a more just approach to global mission. She is also project director for an effort working on racial justice and reconciliation. She has been a consultant and on staff with churches and nonprofit organizations in discipleship and outreach. She and her family live in South Carolina.


Reviews

In “A Just Mission”, Mekdes Haddis challenges the fundamental assumptions underlying “Western” mission efforts which fail to recognize the global scope and cultural and ethnic diversity of the church. After recounting her own journey as an Ethiopian Christian to the USA, her encounters with racially......more

Goodreads review by Emilie

I always appreciate authors who don’t throw the baby out with the bath water, who call out what’s wrong AND encourage us to be better. It extends the When Helping Hurts message further toward justice and mutuality. And the chapters on short term missions and money were 🔥.......more

Goodreads review by David

I deeply sympathize with Mekdes Haddis’s reflections about Christian mission voiced in this book. As uncomfortable as it is to many, in my experience Western superiority is a widely held and rarely challenged assumption in evangelical mission efforts. While her book raises important and uncomfortabl......more

Goodreads review by Carson

This is an overall excellent book by Haddis. While I think some of her points could be better-argued, the book provides so much perspective and food-for-thought to white American churches that I could not bring myself to just give three stars. Would highly recommend for ministers or ministers-in-tra......more

Goodreads review by Monique

I found myself agreeing with a lot of what Mrs. Haddis discussed throughout this book. It shines a light on how we, as a church, can help improve upon how we go about doing missions in other countries that actually benefit them and not make it a photo op for a “good deed”. I also liked that she brou......more