Posts by Jon Trotter
For Such a Time as This
Business for transformation (B4T) is a way of opening doors for the gospel in areas that might otherwise be closed. A water filter production in Southeast Asia opens doors of opportunity, and Lady Latte is opening doors for women in Kosovo.
Read MoreA Harvest in the Hard Places
Jesus exhorted his disciples to open their eyes and see the fields. Workers in Asia and Europe share stories of potential harvests in difficult soil, and of immense needs. Is God inviting you to serve?
Read MoreWorker Profile: Rafael and Solange Tartari
Rafael pastors the local church in Lezhë, focusing on evangelism, discipleship, and training local people to be future leaders in the church. They regularly make contact with people who have not yet heard the good news of the gospel.
Read MoreGrants Received for Thailand Anabaptist Gathering
Anabaptist believers from Thailand and Laos gathered together in Chonburi, Thailand, for a rich time of lively worship, fellowship and interactive teaching at the 4th Thailand Anabaptist Gathering (TAG), October 8-12, 2018.
Read MoreFrom Anywhere to Anyone
At first glance, the idea of all of us “going” sounds like a perfect recipe for chaos! But, somehow, this is what the Holy Spirit does when he gets a hold of us. Our hearts enlarge. Our vision expands. We go beyond our culturally comfortable borders.
Read MoreCalled to Go: Norma’s Story
With the opening of the Joshua Center in 2007, I began working with the Roma people. We began with 25 students, preparing children for enrollment in school. What began as a pre-school now includes an after-school program, a weekly girls’ Bible club, and a monthly mothers’ meeting.
Read MorePreserved for a Purpose
Francisco and Juanita came to the U.S. as asylum seekers from Honduras. Now God is using them as church planters in Madrid, Spain. “God has preserved us for his sovereign purposes. We did not understand God’s purpose for us, but now we do.”
Read MoreA Tailor-Made Niche
With his type of design work, James (name changed) gets to continue in this “cultural mandate” of developing this language and while doing it, share with his Muslim colleagues this beautiful heritage of how Christianity uniquely uplifts languages.
Read MoreWork as Witness
Too often we as Christians have adopted our culture’s divide between the spiritual and the secular. Except for paid ministry, we rarely think of work as spiritual. The Bible, however, makes no such distinction between spiritual and secular.
Read MoreA Shared Heartbeat for Mission
If the church is made up of disciples, then everything we are part of should replicate. Peter Eberly, pastor of Eastside Church, has missional dreams that from the congregation would come churches in many locations. That replication must begin with individual disciples.
Read MoreLocal Mission on the Map
Skip Tobin, Ministry Coach for USA workers, is excited about all that is happening locally: interactions with workers, requests for tranSend interns from local pastors, hearing from district leaders about their missional hopes, and working at discipleship through huddles.
Read MoreCall to Prayer: Teaching Children to Pray
As believers, we are tasked with the job of bringing the little children to Jesus. We can spend all the time in the world teaching children about God, but if we don’t teach them how to relate to God, we’re not doing any better than the disciples who tried to shoo the children away.
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