Call to Prayer: Can Prayer Make Your Family Unique?

Our priority on prayer is guided by clear biblical principles. We emphasize the fact that God hears our prayers and that we can hear from him. But principles are not enough; we need to practice. Here are a few family-friendly prayer ideas that we have used to develop our family prayer life.

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Teachers: God’s Love in the Community

Kids Club

All Kids Club volunteers love the children who come, and there is something special about teachers who choose to be at Kids Club each week. They are experts at giving and receiving the love of God in our local communities who are competently leading both at school and at Kids Club.

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Seeds of Transformation

Jim Beachy, teacher at LAC

My primary purpose for being at LAC was to build relationships. Teaching my subject area well was important; but the real substance of our time there was in the one-on-one conversations with students, other teachers, and persons in the community.

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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.

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A 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?

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Worker Profile: Rafael and Solange Tartari

Rafael and Tartari family

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.

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From Anywhere to Anyone

Carol Tobin

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.

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Called 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.

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Preserved 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.”

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A 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.

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Work as Witness

Aaron M. Kauffman

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.

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