Thwack, thwack, thwack! I stepped out one fresh morning and was greeted by the sound of my neighbor’s ax splitting firewood. The wife was starting her day by splitting wood to make tortillas over a fire. The man was already outside close to the goat pen. He was carefully shoveling goat manure into a feed […]
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“We are praying that God will send young men and women who will be obedient, out of love to see this job done, regardless of the hardships they will encounter. One must count the cost and be prepared to live a life of toil, loneliness, and danger. Your work may carry you far from comforts
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It is a helpless feeling to look into an indigenous person’s face and realize you have no way of communicating. The team enters as learners in the community because of their inability to communicate. Culture and Language Acquisition (CLA) is their first task. Learning the Language Usually the team has already learned a national language
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“The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.” — Mike Stachura
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How should Christians navigate between the two extremes of a charismatic fascination with supernatural activity on the one hand, and a purely naturalistic mindset that denies its existence on the other? Timothy Warner attempts to present a balanced view on the subject that is rooted in the spiritual reality we see in Scripture. Warner opens
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“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis
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Last week was a noisy time in our little Mixtec town. The festival celebrating San Marcos stretched from Sunday to Sunday and was the highlight of the year for many. Though several other festivals are held in town throughout the year, San Marcos is considered the patron saint of this town, and the festival held
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“Almost without exception, missionary-evangelists who are successful in planting new churches have the backing of sending churches. Why? Because missionary-evangelists sent by Christian churches (as opposed to those who are sent by individual Christians or institutions, or those who go on their own initiative) tend to be churchmen. They are church-oriented rather than campaign-oriented and
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All-Nations teams are sent and supported by their churches in partnership with All-Nations. This partnership includes finances. All-Nations typically contributes one third of each team’s support. The sending churches also contribute one third or more, depending how much comes from sponsors and others. Sponsorships = Team Support The board recently decided that funds received from
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“I believe that we have only begun to scratch the surface of the possibilities of the power of God, of what He can do, what He intends to do.” — Cameron Townsend, founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators
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