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An Army of Disciple Makers from the Rainforests of Central Africa
…aid for their labor. In addition to the above marginalization and mistreatment, many Pygmy communities were exposed to racial extermination during the Rwanda genocide and in the Congo civil war. In these two instances it is estimated more than twenty thousand Pygmies were killed. As hunter/gatherers, the forest…
The Best Workers are the Best Neighbors
…aid it well: “God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.” A primary way God designed us to love our neighbors is for us to do our work well, and from our work to have the capacity to be generous to neighbors in need. When it comes to…
Hope for the Nations: Book Review
…aid according to that value. (350–51) The society in general places a high value on savings in contrast to spending. (351) The society in general believes that mutual gains come from voluntary exchanges, and therefore a business deal is “good” if it brings benefits to both buyer and seller. (351–53)…
No Time to Spare
…aid Bruce Smith, President and CEO of Wycliffe Associates. “Existing Bible translation strategies were not meeting their needs, so they took action.” The MAST methodology was born after a group of Bible scholars, pastors, teachers, missionaries, and Wycliffe Associates staff members came together to develop a process that could be…
Why Obedience and Relational Discipleship Need to Be Friends
…aid in John 14:15 “If you love me, keep my commands” and again in John 15:14 “You are my friends if you do what I command.” This was not optional, nor was it legalistic. But it did sort out the true disciples from those who were just interested seekers. In…
Kingdom Kernels: Quick Guide to Solving Generational Hurdles
…ate in ways that forget and lose the skills of art forms and technologies of previous civilization. The Dark Ages are called “dark” in one sense because of the loss of many of skill sets intrinsic to the glories of Rome. While decaying arches, aqueducts, roads and marble buildings reminded…
Manila’s Street Dwellers: From a Place of Poverty to True Flourishing
…aid that in ministering to street dwellers CCT went into an expensive venture, but for me, nothing is expensive in the development of peoples. From the perspective of the eternal, short-term costs are investments in helping the disadvantaged see the face of God. The street dwellers’ journey of change starts…
Maybe It’s Time to Pray
…ated to different people groups—usually focused in a given country or region each month. This app is produced and updated by a partner ministry in Taiwan called the United Mission to Taiwan. It is also available in Chinese. 2. Joshua Project began as one of Frontier Ventures’ ministries in 2000.…
Savings:The Key to Unlocking Entrepreneurship
…aid, adding that it was a 2 ½ hour round trip. “Now I go once every two weeks.” He used a loan to open a second shop, which increased his sales and thus his profits. More importantly, he increased his efficiency and productivity and provided jobs for two more people. …
24:14 Goal: Movement engagements in every unreached people and place by 2025 (86 months)
…attice to Grow Hubs While hub sponsors employ numerous curricula for missionary candidates, many organizations are working together to develop a lattice of criteria to help evaluate CPM Hub Training and candidate readiness. 24:14 is proposing standards of training and care gleaned from these hub leaders that could potentially serve…
How to Reach Frontier Peoples: Following Paul’s Principles
…aid to Cornelius, “It is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company or me into (the house) of one from another nation” because at home was “unclean” (Acts 10:28). The last thing that Peter and his companions expected was that God would fully accept…
Kingdom Kernels
…aid out for them to 1) engage people, 2) evangelize the lost, 3) immediately disciple those who believe, and 4) form them into healthy churches. The tools or methods of this path must be simple enough that new believers from the harvest can implement them in new generations. If so,…
Further Reflections: No Shortcuts to Jesus
…aid that contextualization is “Christian code too often for cosmetically enhanced imitation of our assumed essentials.” So, after hearing another example like this today, I wondered: what is it that seems to draw people to Jesus? I realize it is different in different situations, but I wondered if there is…
How Does Saying “No” Mobilize Local Resources?
…addition to boosting this local leader’s own faith, the testimony of how God provided through fellow believers thoroughly encouraged other local leaders. Local resources can be mobilized! This story could have gone very differently if my friend didn’t say, “No,” and redirect him toward a healthier, self-sustaining solution. The end…
Why Some See Movements and Others Don’t
…aid. “We will pray.” They spent those hours and much of that day seeking the Father. This was much more productive and important to them than sightseeing, though they had never before visited our country. Hour after hour, they lifted the names of those they would be training before the…
The Path Forward is Clearer Than Ever Before.
…ate of world evangelization and what needs to change in order for us to make progress. She introduces us to the Frontier People Groups—those 4,762 peoples who are the most neglected or overlooked peoples in the world with the least access to the gospel and the fewest believers. They also…
A Decade’s Progress—In Just One Year!
…addressed this further in The Oikos Hammer in the Sep/Oct 2018 MF. In this current MF, Chuck White and I carry this further on p. 28, including a sidebar addressing the most common misuses of Scripture in this regard. Fear exposed: Satan’s hold over many Frontier Peoples is partly…
Introducing Frontier People Groups (FPGs)
…additional concern, expressed explicitly elsewhere, that we learn to think in terms of households rather than just individuals: Imagine an individual coming to Christ in a reached people group. The new believer can observe, interact with and follow the example of believing households inside the new believer’s own people group.…