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We’re having an Acts 6 moment at our church. Too much responsibility and authority for some ministries is bottle-necked at the top of the org chart. Like in Acts 6, we need to select some people “of good reputation, full of the Spirit and wisdom” to lead various serv

Ok, I know that “calling” is passive. It is something that God does and not something that we do.  However, the notion of calling is sometimes misused when talking about a decision for cross-cultural ministry. The positive and helpful definition of “calling” is

The key article in lesson 6, Expansion of the World Christian Movement, is The Kingdom Strikes Back by Ralph Winter. A summary and discussion questions are below. Ralph Winter divides redemptive history into ten-400 year periods to cover 4000 years from Abraham to today. The mechanism

Lots of noise on the announcement of the SBC (Southern Baptist Convention) Task force: Keep legal SBC name, but adopt informal name, ‘Great Commission Baptists’. I think name is an improvement over SBC. BTW, in case you were wondering how Southern the SBC is, check out the

Introducing World Missions tries to do much in one book. The task of introducing the biblical, historical, and practical aspects of missions is a massive enterprise. The best audience for this book is someone who is a believer who hasn’t yet carefully studied cross cultural mini

For now, let’s assume that the place, project, dates, and team are already selected for your trip. However, even with all of this in place, much work still needs to be done to have a productive short-term missions trip. When I lived in Turkey, we hosted about 500 short-term volunteers

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Read the whole article: Cost-Effective Compassion: The 10 Most Popular Strategies for Helping the Poor | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction. Ranking 7 Strategies (Just listing the first 7) 1. Get clean water to rural villages. (Rating 8.3) One million children d

After getting counsel from several types of people in your life and reviewing their advice, how can you increase your confidence (inner peace) in the decision that missionary service is right for you? Below are some subjective, but nonetheless helpful, considerations: you continue to

The key articles in lesson 5, Unleashing the Gospel, are Acts of Obedience by Stephen Hawthorn and Become Like, Remain Like by Harley Talman A summary and discussion questions are below. Talman’s central text is: Become Like: “I have become all things to all people, so tha

Eight Ways to Make Portable (churches) Sustainable by Geoff Surratt Let’s be honest, doing church in a portable environment is a pain. Whether you have three volunteers and one trailer or several 18-wheelers and a cast of hundreds it is hard to face setting up and tearing down, settin

This is probably the only book that I have attempted to read, but twice and gave up without finishing. Willard’s prose to some is brilliant; to me it is annoyingly obtuse. Then a friend recently mentioned that Divine Conspiracy was the most impacting book that he has read besides the

Top Five Countries for Persecution of Christians Click here or on country list below to go to Open Doors site. 1. North Korea Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Korea tops the World Watch List yet again as the worst country in the world in which to live as a Christian. Conti

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