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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Worker profile: Nathan Carr
Nathan is serving in prison ministry, involved in reaching out to men like himself—helping to draw them out of addiction towards Christ. He can see the joy in the men he relates to when they surrender to Jesus, because he knows the new life that lies ahead for them.
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Call to Prayer: Discovering Parallels with the Past
An Indian believer gave Ruthy and her teammates a church history book describing mission work that had began happening across northern India in the late 1800s and workers who dedicated the majority of their lives there. “What a gift to read their prayer list!” she writes.
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Sentness is a Life Sentence
“We’ve learned to pay attention when a God-given “holy restlessness” emerges within us,” Lee and Peg Martin write. “During these times, we pray for alertness to new doors God might be opening, while seeking to be steady and faithful in our present calling.”
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A Change of Focus, Not of Call
When the most vulnerable and broken people in La Vega, Dominican Republic, came to Christ, Diomedes Franco would refer them to the nearest church to be nurtured, but then he realized that those churches were not ready to disciple people with such brokenness.
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Rearview Reflections: Clair Good
“As a young missionary, I was full of zeal to save the ‘unreached’ Maasai of Kenya. I assumed they knew nothing of God,” Clair Good writes. “With great conviction and enthusiasm, I offered answers to questions the people I was trying to reach were not even asking. I was met with resistance and had little success.”
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Rearview Reflections: Nancy Marshall
“I went to Orange Walk, Belize, in 2005 with a clear call from God to start a church among the Deaf. The only problem was that I had no idea how to do that. I knew God was telling me to trust him. Somehow this would work out. I was sure,” Nancy Marshall writes.
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Eight Lessons from a Lifetime in Mission
Fifty-two years after Willard and Eva Eberly were called to serve in Italy, they look back on key lessons they learned. “Our basic mission philosophy and methodology was modeling, discipling and equipping believers in every aspect of Christian living,” they write.
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Gentle Boldness
A key mentor of mine has been the Anabaptist missiologist, David W. Shenk. He encouraged me to explore my own call to mission as an adolescent. Even after I moved away, he made it a priority to meet with me for breakfast whenever I was back in town.
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Worker profile: Lydia Musselman
Lydia leads discipleship groups, weekly prayer on the campuses of EMU and JMU, and Bible studies with women from both universities, nurturing cross-cultural connection and watering their souls with the living water.
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Call to Prayer: Lord, Teach Us to Pray!
“Luke’s gospel has been teaching us that multiplication is preceded by prayer,” Lizzette Hernandez writes. “So in response to the Spirit’s invitation, we have been meeting once a month for the last year to pray. As we’ve come together, God has done new things.”
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Moving Towards Multiplication
“Moving towards multiplication takes time, energy and patient trust in the One who makes the harvest,” Mike Metzler writes. “J.R. Briggs, a church planter who is ministering near my hometown in Lansdale, Pa., wrote: ‘All of us are missionaries disguised as good neighbors.’ His words resonate with me.”
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Engage. Establish. Equip. Empower.
As a discipler with Every Nation Campus and partner in mentoring a number of VMMissions tranSend interns, Carlin Kreider uses four principles: Every person is valuable to God; every church, campus ministry, and small group can grow; every minister should prepare others to minister; and every disciple should make disciples.
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