Stories of Mission
Explore mission themes in our quarterly magazine as workers tell stories of making disciples in the way of Christ.
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New Ways of Being Church
Instead of asking, “Why aren’t people coming to our church? Where is the younger generation? What is the future of the church?” we need to be asking, “Where is God at work? How can we participate in what God is doing in this context? What are we inviting people to be part of?”
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A Culture of Multiplication
If you were asked, “What are the irreducible minimums of the church?” what would you say? An assembly of some number? What number? A pattern of assembling? What’s the pattern and what mission and values would it reflect?
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From 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.
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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
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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A 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.
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Local 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.
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The Best is Yet to Come
It’s easy to look at the present landscape of the church in North America and get discouraged. Nearly all denominations are in decline. Where are the streams that God is causing to spring up in what feels like a spiritual wasteland? I see at least three streams of renewal.
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Call 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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A Knock on the Door, Seeking and Finding
“I believe that Jesus is God, and I want to be a Jesus follower.” I couldn’t believe my ears as Yousif prayed a beautiful prayer of repentance, expressing a humble need of Christ. How could this be happening? A Muslim young man, coming to faith so quickly?
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