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2520 Entries found for Keyword(s) "aids"
In the Age of the Coronavirus, Will We Go and Take the Land?
…aid, “Two things are needed: honesty to face the current reality, and faith you will prevail in the end.” The world is a very different place than it was a few months ago. Borders are closed. Millions are quarantined, on lock-down or under stay-home orders. Jobs have been lost and…
Galmi Hospital Prepares in the Face of COVID-19
…aid, “In the last couple of days since we’ve implemented that, no one has presented those symptoms, so that’s been quite nice.” Each day, Galmi’s outpatient clinic sees around 200 to 300 people, so their waiting room exceeds the government’s recommended 50-person limit. The staff is attempting to decrease the…
Financing Missions 10 years after 2010
…attacks. Leaders of global mission giving initiatives need more prayer and spiritual covering. While biblical stewardship and generous giving improved in the last decade, kingdom focused giving, where the spiritual needs are greatest, has not necessarily seen the same increase. As we encourage more mission giving, we have to focus…
Business for Movements
…attitudes honoring local cultures providing ongoing coaching and discipleship incorporating biblical principles of stewardship, ethics, and business Progress in Asia and Africa In Asia and Africa, we observed significant movements of FPGs coming to Christ through business conducted in strategic locations by apostolic workers. This powerfully influences regions that…
3 Ways We Stifle S.W.A.P.
…aid us in walking in the Spirit, this question came to mind: How often in serving cross-culturally do we unintentionally stifle people’s ability to surrender completely, wait on God, and obey His promptings? How could we possibly stifle our host cultural group’s S.W.A.P.? I desire to touch on three critical…
Patterns in Long-Lasting Movements
…attacks on outlying Christian communities, like the Donatists. The spread of the gospel by military might met with resistance and was largely superficial and ineffective. While dedicated believers in Roman “Christian” society began to hunker down in monasteries, the Celtic missionaries from powerless Ireland became the most successful starters of…
24:14 Goal: Movement engagements in every unreached people and place by 2025 (72 months)
…aid to hasten the coming of the Lord (cf. Mark 13:10). Dick Lucas & Christopher Green write: “The Old Testament prophecies of the hastening of God’s return (e.g. Isa. 62.11) have a new force following the first coming of Jesus, and Jesus underlined that it is within the control of…
ReforMission: Churches that Changed Their Minds
…aid: “Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.” Michelle, I wonder if teaching that everyone is a missionary has ever been communicated at your church? Michelle: I would say as much as even 10 or 15 years ago I did hear that. And I really think a lot…
What’s Killing Us?
…additional charts, graphs and graphics Editor’s Note: There is no greater sorrow than seeing a loved one die. A bridge of compassion and gospel witness between mission workers and the unreached and Frontier People Groups has often been built by helping them escape the very things killing them and their…
Making a Killing
…additional charts, graphs and graphics Unfortunately, merchants of death have reached the remaining Frontier People Groups before any missionaries. Deadly practices among unreached tribes are not new, such as feuding, infanticide, and cannibalism; however, finding the people groups already crippled and dying due to lucrative international drug industries only began…
How To Save a Life (or Thousands of Lives)
…AIDS. I was alone. Relatives were picked to adopt me, but soon I was abused. My uncle forced me to have sex. When it was discovered that I was HIV-positive and pregnant, my aunt was so angry. She started punching me and said I was not worthy to live. ‘Just…
The Abortion Industry and the Gospel of Life
…aid based on a country’s willingness to agree with the agenda they set, promoting abortion as women’s healthcare. Since the 1980s, global abortions have skyrocketed, peaking in the 1990s and have since decreased slightly in developed nations but remain constant or increasing in developing countries.8 Russia and Romania have the…
The Puzzling Power of Group Self-Deception
…aid they were drinking when they committed a violent crime, while only one in 10 admitted using illicit drugs. … But when members of Congress tried to pass legislation that would make alcohol part of the purview of the nation’s drug czar, the measure failed. The argument is this: heroin,…
24:14 Goal: Movement engagements in every unreached people and place by 2025 (78 months)
…aid to Paul one night in a vision, ‘Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.’...” Acts 18:8-11a “This continued…
Daring to Succeed
…attitudes between the cultures. When their language ability allows, they could: Enter deeper conversations with focus people who seem spiritually open, to ask if they would be willing to gather their family and/or friends to study the Holy Book .Facilitate CPM training for near-culture and focus group believers. Offer ongoing…
The Marriage of Excellent Strategy and the Supernatural
…aid. The room was tiny and dark. We bent down to enter the low doorway and saw him lying on the bed. From the dark corner came groans of pain. “What is wrong?” we asked. His wife replied. “The doctor says he has a kidney stone. It’s been several days…
Dr. Steve Smith’s Extraordinary Vision and Legacy
…aid, “and it was very convicting! Let me start tonight’s discussion, by summarizing it for you.” “The early Church advanced rapidly— supernaturally fast—through most of the first century. At that rate, the known world would have been evangelized within just a few centuries!” “But then a major shift occurred,” Chara…
Micro-Compassion as a Lifestyle
…aid, heroes from the outside, and salaried cultural insiders who are typically paid with foreign funding. If we want to unlock a volunteer movement of tangible love and justice in cities, towns, and villages in other parts of the world, I believe two significant shifts need to happen. First, we…
Key insights in enabling movements among the Hindu and Muslim peoples
…aid: “forget the former things: do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness (new pathways in the Scriptures) And rivers in the desert” The Holy Spirit (rivers of…
Advancing through Persecution in North India
…aid. We will rebuild our homes!” This runs contrary to the usual cultural pattern of low caste people simply acquiescing to the orders of high caste people. As these believers made plans to rebuild, house churches in other areas supported the families with their own funds. Even in their poverty,…