Missiologist:
Obviously, the long-term strategy did not work, and Chau will become not only a topic of debate but of study for missiologists, people who train missionaries. That’s my field. I have a PhD in the subject and have trained missionaries to go to many places, including India. I am also the dean of the mission school at Wheaton College, where we unapologetically and enthusiastically train missionaries to engage their own cultures, as well as cross-culturally, from their culture to another. [“Slain missionary John Chau prepared much more than we thought, but are missionaries still fools?“, Ed Stetzer, Dean of the School of Mission, Ministry and Leadership at Wheaton College, WaPo]
For those readers following the story of the late missionary John Chau and his attempt to bring Christianity to the isolated Andaman Islanders, this claim may also be of interest:
But new information released Wednesday paints a more complicated picture of Chau, including an interview with Christianity Today. In the interview, Mary Ho, who leads All Nations (the agency that sent Chau on missions), indicated that he was heavily vaccinated and even quarantined before going on the mission.
It sounds good, but I’d rather here hear from an infectious diseases doc and researcher who also knew which vaccinations were employed. I remain worried this was the work of amateurs who only think they know what they’re doing.
