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God is Still Saving This Generation
Serving in college ministry for the past few years has deepened my conviction that the Great Commission is as relevant and urgent as ever—and it’s especially meaningful for a generation that’s wrestling with deep confusion, fear, and spiritual brokenness.
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For a Generation to Come
The mission of the SLAQ program is to raise up youth as serving leaders through practices of adventure, service, and wisdom. In our day, SLAQ wants to create a context where the next generation can step out of the comfort-driven streams of culture, and listen to what life expects of them.
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Engaging the Next Generation
Mentored ministry is now more relevant than ever as the next generation is joining the work of missions. The recent generation does not prefer to receive verbal instruction and then go and do. Rather, they are looking to go and do alongside mentors who help them succeed, even through experimentation and failure.
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Five Qualities of a VITAL Church
How do we engage the next generation in the life and witness of the church? That was the key question I wanted to answer six years ago in my doctoral dissertation. Five overarching themes emerged, which I sum up with the acronym, VITAL.
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The Anabaptist Mission Flame
Recently I discovered that my ancestors had been invited to adopt Anabaptist faith by neighbors in the 1660s. The flame of Anabaptism spread rapidly from neighbor to neighbor. Today, the mission flame of the early Anabaptists is still very much alive.
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Authentic Disciples on Mission
A bold, irrepressible witness characterized both the Early Church and the early Anabaptist movement, who fearlessly, prophetically, and persuasively shared the good news of the Kingdom in a dangerous environment, under threat of severe persecution and even death.
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Timeline of the Anabaptist Movement
A timeline of major events in Anabaptist history from the first rebaptisms of the movement in 1525 to the present day, noting persecutions and migrations of different Anabaptist groups around the world.
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Two-Fold Gospel Witness
Anabaptists saw the local church as the community of daily discipleship that incarnationally embodied that larger identity. Most shocking in light of the imminent threat of foreign armies was their call to love even enemies. They made the costly case to fellow Christians that the suffering of the cross is Jesus’ call to all believers.
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Three Defining Traits of Anabaptist Mission
From the beginning, Anabaptism was a missionary movement. Converts shared their faith boldly, often at great personal cost. In response to intense persecution, quietism came to characterize succeeding generations. But a resurgence of Anabaptist missional fervor led to a truly global Anabaptism today.
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Five Centuries of Anabaptist Mission
This issue of Transforming focuses on characteristics of the early Anabaptist movement and how they continue to shape mission today. It examines the theology, practice, and migration of Anabaptists which resulted in a particular approach to mission.
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From Brazil to Albania
Called to Albania as a mission worker 25 years ago, Norma’s ministry has made a generational impact. “We can see how the power of the word of God can transform anyone who receives it, and how that transformation brings hope, not only to individuals, but also to the community,” she writes.
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From Everywhere to Everyone
Many are now being sent from the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, places formerly viewed as mission fields. VMMissions has been living into this shifting reality in many ways. Currently, a third of VMMissions workers come from the Majority World.
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