Endalkachew Tefera was raised in a morally conservative home in southern Ethiopia. Christ became the center of his life in high school, and in between semesters at Bible college, he served as a full-time evangelist. One summer at home, he was asked to preach to a church of thousands.

The C&MA excels at taking the gospel to the nations, but what about when the nations come to us? Do we welcome them as brothers and sisters? What if their worship style and culture are distinctly different? Do we simply assume that ethnic churches prefer to “stay among their own”?