From the category archives:
Today I interviewed Josie Gabdon, an IMB medical strategist in Asia. She shared with me about an important Global Medical Alliance meeting scheduled for July 8-11 at Warren Baptist Church in Augusta, GA. It is important to note that April 1 is the deadline for the discounted rate.
This is a medical gathering of international allied [...]
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I love mission innovations. The technology which is available to us is under-utilized for the advance of the gospel. So I love to see God’s people innovate for the kingdom and then give it away. That’s exactly what YouVersion is about.
It was two years ago at Catalyst in which I passed on news about a [...]
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The following article highlights the increasing role of film in connecting a younger generation with global missions. Some of the films featured at Urbana include the following.
Missionary Films
“Li Yang”
Missionaries working in China’s underground church – 6 feature films
deidox.com
“The Last Letter”
Missionaries working in Burma, Nairobi and Memphis – six short films
thelastletter.org
“Hearing Everett”
A missionary family educates deaf [...]
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This post is a continuation of Acts 1:8 Now, a Bible study for missional living.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in ? Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8
Lesson One: First Things First
Jesus’ words [...]
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Today marks the first of several posts which essentially make available to you portions of the Missional Discipleship Guide written by Mark Morris called Acts 1:8 Now. The intent is to provide fresh eyes and application for a local church, a small group, or an individual establishing a personal World Christian plan for missional [...]
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My church and my other ministries have recently benefited from the use of a powerful SMS marketing tool called – RevText.
For a reasonable fee, I have acquired a short code - 5 digit number such as 45900 – and five keywords. It’s the same technology used for voting for your winner on American Idol.
In a [...]
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Victoria Stargel is 19 years old, a sophomore at Union University in Jackson, TN. She recently went to Sierra Leone, West Africa with a team of ten people from her church, First Baptist of Humboldt, TN. After her return, I asked her about the process of going on the trip, whether her age impacted her [...]
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How many of us are building communication strategies around email, facebook, text messaging, and other digital and social networking tools?
While this is not a techie site, we all better be watching the up and coming Google Wave! It’s set to be the lastest innovation and future industry standard in what could replace some common tools [...]
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Over the last few years, Pastors and Staff and other mission leaders have repeatedly asked me, “How do you build a local church mission strategy?” Over the years I’ve refused to give plug and play pat answers, believing that every local church must go through a healthy biblical process of developing their unique local church [...]
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I want to make you aware of one of the better resources available on global research and mapping.
Check out The IMB’s Global Research Page.
There are downloadable mapping resources as well as data resources on the status of world evangelization.
You will also find People Group Research links and numerous other links that put leading research at [...]
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LL Project: Happy Dance from Last Letter on Vimeo.
