Marcelo E. C. Dias
Marcelo E. C. Dias, PhD, is associate director of Global Mission at the Southern Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists, New Delhi, Delhi, India.
Articles by Marcelo E. C. Dias
More than numbers:
July/August 2025
An ordinary trip to a youth conference turned out to be a valuable lesson on intercultural mission work. While traveling to the host country in Asia, I remembered that one of my doctoral professors had been a missionary in that place decades…
Adventist mission: From awareness to engagement— Part 2 of 2
September 2015
In part 1 of “Adventist Mission: From Awareness to Engagement” (July-August 2015), we considered Adventist mission from its inception to the present. We now want to consider ten trends we believe should lead the missionary efforts of the…
Adventist mission: From awareness to engagement—Part 1
July/August 2015
More than 140 years have passed since J. N. Andrews left for Europe as the first official Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) missionary. The decision by the General Conference Mission Board to sponsor “the ablest man in all our ranks,”1…