Let’s reform Christian missions. One day, our family was together in the car and my father happened to mention a problem with one of the missionaries serving in our mission. My older brother commented, ‘It seems that the only requirement to be a missionary is to be able to crawl across the border!’ After many years of missionary work on different continents, that once humourous comment from one little boy to his family has continued to ring in my ears. Crawling across the border seems, at times, a higher requirement for missions when the requirements seem to be: (1) are you a Christian?, (2) do you ‘feel’ called?, and (3) have you raised your support? I would like to focus on reforming missions with respect to theological education and mission training--one of several topics for reforming missions in our day. (And I know there are exceptions to comments made here, with some great examples of good practice.) I think, for example, of the Cambridge seven—missionaries at th