As the boundaries between cultures and religions blur in an increasingly globalized world, the church finds itself in need of new approaches to understanding and embracing otherness - both inside and outside of its established communities. Southeast Asia has long been one of the world's most diverse regions, with over a hundred ethnicities represented and members of every major religion living as neighbors. In this rich and complex environment, the church has an equally rich and complex history, at times flourishing, at times floundering, but inexorably taking root. In this collection of essays, contributors from throughout the region reflect on the history and future of Christianity in Southeast Asia, providing an overview of missions in the region, and exploring how local churches are defining a uniquely Southeast Asian approach to interreligious engagement. Combining missiological research with contextual theology, this volume offers profound insight into the challenges accompanying missions in a multireligious environment. From ethnic and religious conflict resolution to navigating hybrid identities, this collection of essays makes an excellent contribution to global conversations surrounding the future of missions in a globalized world. In the warm, vibrant region of Southeast Asia, local scholars of mission, rooted in the land and the sea, the bamboo huts and the skyscrapers, have brought fresh questions and insights to bear on the classic cosmic truths of God in Christ-incarnate, crucified, resurrected, reigning, and sending us out as his witnesses throughout his world. Coming from diverse ethnic heritages but united in faith and place, these writers offer sharp, authentic interpretations and applications from this pivotal region. Miriam Adeney, PhD Seattle Pacific University, Washington, USA Pulling threads from the diverse contexts and cultures of Southeast Asia, this book weaves a beautiful tapestry, exploring how the unchanging message of the Bible remains relevant in an endlessly evolving environment. The book challenges the reader to go beyond the reductionist, linear mindset that pervades Western thought. Instead, it calls us to embrace an interdisciplinary approach that welcomes diversity, complexity, fluidity, and fuzzy boundaries, which are essential to understanding the multicultural, multireligious, multi-economic, multi-political, multicolored, and multilingual mosaic realities of Southeast Asia. This book presents spirituality within the context and framework of traditional Southeast Asian worldviews and brings the Bible into conversation with each perspective. Rev. Dr. Patrick Fung General Director, OMF International, Singapore This collection shows that any missiology in the 2020s must be contextually grounded, glocally adaptive, socially engaging, and eschatologically oriented toward God's redemptive purposes. More specifically, these essays indicate that missiological considerations have to be historically rooted, which is what we find in part I of this book. Our Southeast Asian colleagues show how Christian history and missiology have always been mutually informing, even more so now that we are observing how younger churches continue to mature and respond to the call of the missio Dei! Amos Yong, PhD Dean of the School Mission and Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, California, USA Southeast Asia is one of the most complex regions in the world because of its variegated histories, convoluted politics, and multiplicity of cultures, languages and religions. Furthermore, Christianity in this region has been a largely neglected field of study until very recently. The significance of this exciting volume is that it opens up our understanding of the complex multifaceted nature of the encounter between the gospel and the peoples of the region. It will also help churches develop clearer indigenous Christian self-identities and more contextual approaches in mission. This book is a hugely welcome contribution to this field of study. Bishop Emeritus Hwa Yung Methodist Church in Malaysia KIEM-KIOK KWA teaches intercultural studies and ethics at East Asia School of Theology, Singapore. Previously she worked with Graduates' Christian Fellowship as well as in her home church, Trinity Methodist Church, Singapore. She earned her PhD from Asbury Theological Seminary, USA, with a dissertation on how the church can engage in society. SAMUEL K. LAW is Vice Principal of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies and Pastoral Theology at Singapore Bible College. He is also pastor-at-large for the Evangelical Chinese Church of Seattle. He holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky, USA, and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University, Louisiana, USA.