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Kingdom Kernels
…In the previous issue, I discussed the concept of finding God-prepared people. Because they are so out of the norm from what we normally encounter, I sometimes call them abnormal people: they are prepared by God to respond abnormally quickly and fervently as well as to have abnormal impact in…
Good Works Empower the Gospel
…bartered during four centuries before slavery was (supposedly) “abolished” by Wilberforce. Does that apply to the lifting of the burden of 45 million man-years of labor annually destroyed in Africa alone due to the malarial parasite? It has been said that because the gospel is a message of hope, the…
Any-3
…Introduction Any-3 is a five-step process which starts with getting acquainted and leads to discovering whether the Holy Spirit is at work in that person’s life to convict them of sin and prepare them for salvation. Mike Shipman and his team experienced years of fruitless ministry in a “resistant” Muslim…
Ying Kai and the Power of Multiplication
…“Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times. — Mark 4:8 Ying was reluctant. He knew about the reputation of Nandong’s authoritarian government. So the businessman took Ying and Grace on a tour of…
Loving Our “Unwanted” Neighbors
…She grew up conscious of the Roma (Gypsy) presence but had no more thoughts of them than the usual stereotypes: they are filthy and they steal, their yards look like junkyards and they do not want to work. Although Anita1 would see them begging, she felt no particular compassion or…
Kingdom Kernels
…The King’s ways in this world are counterintuitive. Intuitively we think His kingdom should follow a certain path or principles natural to us, but we find that it is quite the opposite. The primary way to discover the counterintuitive ways of the kingdom is to meditate on the Word of…
What I’ve Learned from 14 Urbanas
…Editor’s Note: Steve Hoke first attended Urbana ’67 as a 17-year old freshman at Wheaton College. Since that convention of 5,000, he has only missed two conferences, and has attended in several different roles—staff photographer, exhibitor, missions leader and seminar facilitator. We asked Steve about his impressions and the most…
Effective Engagement After 6 Years
…In the spring of 2006 I was asked to identify and create strategic initiatives that would lead our mission and its partners to “engage all Muslim peoples with a population over 100,000 by 2012.” As I set out on that task, I quickly learned there was no consensus definition for…
Generational Mapping
…Beginning in 2006 my wife and I had a genuine problem on our hands. Churches were multiplying! All that we had studied, prayed for and discovered in Scripture suddenly seemed to erupt before our eyes in the form of new churches being birthed in every direction. The challenge of measuring,…
Peoples on the Move
…Samuel and Young Cho are a middle-aged, Korean couple living in Lutherville, Maryland. Korean is their heart language and English is their second language. A few years ago, the Lord used this couple to begin Nepal Church of Baltimore, after they met a Nepalese waitress and her family. Recently, the…
A Day’s Visit to the Mazor
…Excerpted, by permission, from Sixteen Seasons: Stories from a Missionary Family in Tajikisan, by David James (William Carey Library, 2011) We wound our way towards the famous Muslim saint’s mazor, his resting place. The landscaping was superb as the caretakers had harnessed the delta of diverging natural springs among the ancient…
It’s HUGE
…News of Church-Planting Movements (CPMs) happening around the world has been a wake up call for many American church leaders to reexamine, reframe and retool. Others have simply dismissed rapid multiplication of churches as impossible to happen in the U.S. Tim Martin, Mission Pastor at WoodsEdge Community Church in Houston…
What Happened to the Others Who Sailed?
…Two couples and two single men left along with Adoniram and Ann Judson in February of 1812. The eight were sent out by the newly organized American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Here is what happened to the others who sailed to India (on two different ships) that month.…
One Man With a Passion to Reach His Family Transforms a People
…THE FOLLOWING STORY IS EXCERPTED FROM THE BOOK, THE FOUNDERS OF THE INDIAN CHURCH BY DR. DONALD MCGAVRAN PUBLISHED IN 1937, THE TRUE STORY PRESENTED HERE ILLUSTRATES THE POWER OF STAYING WITHIN THE COMMUNITY OF YOUR BIRTH TO REACH YOUR FAMILY. The Story of Ditt There once was a man…
As for Me and My House
…In Islamabad recently, a university lecturer spoke on the factors that make a country or culture prone to progress or poverty. He said “I am not here to tell you how to succeed, because it is not important that you succeed by yourself. What is important is that your families…
Kingdom Come!
…"I’ve finished my CPM plan. What do I do next?" At the dawn of the 21st century, God began to unfold an amazing story of kingdom advance in a densely populated corner of Asia. Ying and Grace Kai were laboring in an urban sprawl of crowded factories packed with 10,000…
Ideas Can Be More Powerful Than Money
…An infamous leader of the Former Soviet Union once said that “ideas are more powerful than guns.” One could add that ideas can be more powerful than money as well. While money often gets used up, good ideas have the potential to keep on giving long after the initial investment…
Disciple Making & Church Planting
…Excerpted from You See Bones, I See an Army: Changing the Way We Do Church1 Jesus bypassed the cumbersome religious structures and irrelevant worship practices of his day, and started something living and organic. The word “organic” is a good one to describe a spontaneously reproducing simple church movement because it…
William Carey
…When Englishman William Carey (1761–1834) arrived in India in 1793, it marked a major milestone in the history of Christian missions and in the history of India. Carey established the Serampore Mission—the first modern Protestant mission in the non-English-speaking world—near Calcutta on January 10, 1800.1 From this base, he labored…
Our Shrink-wrap World
…I was shocked recently with my first-ever purchase of a flat-screen television. Expecting a hernia-inducing effort not unlike the intense strain of an Olympic power-lifter, I was amazed at how much smaller and lighter it was. My “clean and jerk” television-carrying method was no longer needed. Personal computing has gone…