Over the last couple of decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of a different kind of leader in world missions. I think the term that best fits this leader is the term, mission mobilizer. What is curious, is that from a biblical and historical...
Recently, I was in Chile teaching the Storyline mission course and training leaders. I was refreshed and very excited to see the missions fervor in Latin America. We have been working with Movida for almost two years now in helping to mobilize and send latino...
El Salvador is not the first place people think about going for a tropical vacation. Jake, a former engineer and now missionary, is serving in El Salvador and his perspective on God's calling in his life to serve and lead is fascinating. What has God...
Which of the 5 habits of a World Christian are your doing right now? “Going” somewhere is only one of five ways you can be a part of God’s mission around the world. What else can you do besides “Go”? In this episode discover practical...
Emmanuel, God with us. For me, it took a flight over the Sahara desert to a church at the end of a dirt road in Kampala, Uganda to hear the word “unreached.” A tattered map was tacked to the front of the church, pointing to the...
School buses are fully awake after summer’s hibernation, while day-by-day brown overtakes the lush green corn fields, unveiling the promise of an approaching harvest. It is autumn in the Midwest. The Caribbean may be a region of forever summer, yet spiritually in Trinidad and Tobago...
Take a glance at the headlines today and you quickly realize that the relationship between Russia, Europe and the West is reverting to Cold War norms. But, despite souring geopolitical relations, the evangelical church in Russian-speaking Eastern Europe is thinking more globally than ever before. Since...
Missionaries talk a lot about “reaching the unreached.” But who exactly are ‘the unreached?’ And where do they live? There are about as many definitions of ‘unreached’ among Christian evangelicals, as there are kitty videos on Youtube. The word ‘unreached’ is pretty ubiquitous among Christians, but what do...
He was born April 17, 1869, in the Russian city of Vladikavkaz, nestled in the snow-clad Caucasus. The highest peaks in the Caucasus are taller than the fabled Alps. It was perhaps fitting that Ivan S. Prokhanov should be born here because he, like King...
This past weekend Kristen and I had the chance to experience a J.O.G. No, we didn’t run around the neighborhood, this was an event sponsored by an incredible ministry called Generous Giving. J.O.G. stands for Journey of Generosity. We had about 90 people in our...