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Generational Mapping
…aid before the first Apostles and Paul. What would you do with 3,000 baptisms in a day? To what degree were the Apostles responsible before the Lord for the fledgling churches scattered across Jerusalem within the weeks that followed? How did Paul sleep at night, when the need for leadership…
Further Reflections
…aid no. Steve told him that he would be glad to connect him with them, so he contacted the agency and forwarded the contact information to both Joe and the field workers. A few weeks later Joe called again. He had not talked with the workers still, so Steve told…
Peoples on the Move
…ate relatives of members of the Nepal Church of Baltimore. During this visit the Chos were able to share letters and gifts from family members in the States. One of the family members living in Nepal made a profession of faith in Jesus. While on this second missionary trip, the…
Reaching the Nations in Your Community
…ategic focus was needed to respond to the growing population of diaspora peoples coming here. Globalization, urbanization and migration have changed the complexity of reaching cities and communities for Christ, making cross-cultural mission not just a foreign mission practice any longer. The difference between recent immigrants and previous generations is…
And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
…aid I’d come to the park every day and pray for these men, but if he wanted anything else to happen, he was going to have to do it. God in his goodness and grace seemed to say, “Ok. Now that you understand our roles, let’s get started.” Five minutes…
Immigrant Europe
…aid with tears in his eyes that he would love to see rapid reproduction become a reality in his community. Coaching and accountability follows the training for all attendees. We are seeing churches and individuals catch the vision and then respond by praying and going. This is taking place, we…
International Church Reaches “The Nations” Through Refugee Ministry
…add another family from home. I try to hide my smile at Chappell’s understatement. The international church has many small groups studying the Bible and offering each other support in language groups from Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Some of the small group leaders are trained pastors who are…
Affinity Blocs
…ates on least-reached People Clusters. Building on the work of Patrick Johnstone and Joshua Project, we estimate that more than 80% of the world’s unreached peoples are found in 117 least-reached People Clusters, with these 117 clusters grouped into 12 Affinity Blocs. The paradigm of Affinity Blocs and People Clusters…
From the Editor
…ategic insights necessary to effectively reach them with the gospel and then send them back as missionaries to their homelands? Completing the task of bringing the gospel to every person, tribe and tongue will depend upon whether the Church will effectively tackle this challenge of mission fields on the move…
A Time For Everything
…aid in a hurry. All those who would take a pilgrimage into this land of Bactrian camels and Oriental carpets should remember that the nasty American habit of quickly getting down to business feels very rude in this part of the world. Talgat and I sat in the living room…
The Dependency Syndrome
…aid with outside funds the pastor who was assigned to preach for the new congregation. Unfortunately this gave the wrong impression from the beginning. The pastor was perceived as “owned” by the people who paid him. The people in the newly planted congregation were glad to let someone else pay…
The Bare Essentials of Helping Groups Become Churches
…aid to sacrifice our paradigms for the sake of seeing God’s kingdom come! It is a helpful process to help us return to the original discipleship revolution of the Book of Acts. It is a helpful process to help us return to some of the more explosive movements in history.…
Affinity Blocs
…Add the large number of migrant workers living in Russia and spread through the former Soviet Union, and you can accurately regard the Azerbaijani as one of the most dispersed and significant minorities in many countries. Furthermore, northern Iraq is home to a people called the Turcoman, who speak Azerbaijani…
Conquest
…Add to this our emphasis on (and experience in) explaining the Bible and it’s not surprising that people see us as teachers rather than learners. We have all the answers! The fact is that those we are going to “reach” and “serve” know full well that we haven’t lived our…
Unsuspecting People as Kingdom Agents
…aid, praise the Lord, our daughter is totally healed. When others in the village witnessed God’s healing of the girl, a family came to them and asked if God could heal their daughter of epilepsy. The father told them, ‘ It’s very simple: repent, and believe in Jesus Christ as…
How to Adapt
…aid that only about 2% of American evangelicals regularly share their faith, and Alan Hirsch says that 60% of Americans say they would never go to any church, but these facts have not broken the hearts or changed the tactics of enough American Christians. We normally focus on growing the…
A Day’s Visit to the Mazor
…aid he believed in Christ but he had been so interested that sometimes I wondered if he was a secret believer. Was he drinking defensively, functionally, or ritualistically? … I purchased a copy of the mazor’s little white booklet containing the legends about Sulton Uvais. I would spend the next…
Facing the Brutal Facts of Church-Planting
…aid professionals carry out the work of ministry. Centrifugal vs Centripetal You know how centrifugal force works, right? The very term has its origins in two Latin words meaning “center” and “flee.” Centrifugal forces push objects outward away from the center. Centrifugal forces are at work in Church-Planting Movements (CPMs).…
Church Models
…ates of Hades will not overcome it.” (Matthew 16:18, NIV). When you hear the word “church” and think of how a church should be organized, what comes to mind? Is it a certain building you pass as you travel? Do you picture people gathered and worshiping inside the church…
It’s HUGE
…aid John Lo, pastor at Epicentre Church in Pasadena, CA. “The re-framed concepts learned from CPMs have been ‘huge’ for me,” he emphasized. Those who have chosen this journey express that, for the church in America, it has been an explosion of HOPE for a different future. Five lessons were…