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Donald K. Smith was for twenty-one years Distinguished Professor of Intercultural Communication and Missiology at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He is presently Dean of WorldView Institute (a graduate level international living-and-learning community). For 30 years a missionary evangelist, journalist and educator in Africa, based in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Kenya, Dr. Smith was founder of Daystar University in Nairobi. His experience includes teaching, editing, publishing, developing literacy materials in African languages, anthropological research, evangelism, preaching and supervising Bible translation programs in more than 40 languages. His books, Creating Understanding and Make Haste Slowly, are used widely in missions trainin ...more

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	Creating Understanding: A Handbook for Christian Communication Across Cultural Landscapes 3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Make Haste Slowly! Growing Effective Intercultural Communication 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comunicándo se entiende la gente by Martín Huegel, Donald K. Smith really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating Understanding by Donald K. Smith (1992-08-02) by Donald K. Smith, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Communicating for Development by Karl-Johan Lundstrom, Donald K. Smith, Samuel Kenyi 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daystar Rising by Faye Smith, Lorry Lutz (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Donald K. Smith (Preface) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Effective communication is not possible unless there’s understanding of the mental model held by the person to whom you’re communicating. This is fundamental in communication. The only way to understand the mental models of the people is to be involved with the people.”
― Donald K. Smith, Make Haste Slowly! Growing Effective Intercultural Communication

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“the ability to accept uncertainty is directly related to the ability to live successfully in another culture. People who cannot accept uncertainty will rarely be successful cross-cultural workers, since the ability to live with uncertainty is necessary for cultural adaptation.”
― Donald K. Smith, Make Haste Slowly! Growing Effective Intercultural Communication

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“Urbanization almost always means the breakdown of a consensus society. It’s economically impossible to operate in a traditional fashion within an urban setting.”
― Donald K. Smith, Make Haste Slowly! Growing Effective Intercultural Communication

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