Includes bibliographical references (p.371-378) and index

Global trends : soils, seed, sowers and first fruits -- Assessing the soils -- Unploughed ground -- The imperishable seed -- Sowers from the global south -- Sister sowers and gatherers -- First fruits and future harvests -- Fruitful practices : sowing, watering, gathering, reproducing -- Introduction to fruitful practices -- Sowing (witnessing) -- Watering (discipling) -- Gathering (reproducing fellowships) -- Equipping stewards (leadership development) -- Gathering laborers (team building) -- Emerging issues : birds, rocks, sun, thorns, and good soil -- Factors which influence the type of incarnational identity that -- Jesus followers choose -- Factors which facilitate communities of believers leading to movements -- How and why of communicating the Bible in stories -- Keys to fruitful joint ministry between national (MBB) -- Leaders and fellowship partners -- Jesus followers and funding -- Islamism and receptivity to Jesus -- Use of the Qur'an -- Implications for witness of folk beliefs and practices -- Developing fruitful teams -- Beyond tentmaking in a post 9/11 world -- The roles of suffering and martyrdom -- Recapturing a missiology of suffering.