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That’s what Pastor Mike calls it–and it really is!
Hop in the vans, drive an hour or so through the mountains, stop at a Campus–Jump out and run to the classrooms–everyone gives the Gospel in 30 minues! Leave decision cards, tracts, Be Sure Booklets and local workers behind to follow up.
Jump in the van and
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But Nommensen’s legacy lies preeminently in Sumatra and in the Christian church among the Batak. By 1918, the year of his death, the Batak church was firmly established, with 34 pastors, 788 teacher-preachers, and 180,000 members. In addition, sixty European men and women of the Rhenish Mission served as coworkers with the Batak leadership.
By virtue
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Nominensen made a decisive effort to gather the church along “three-self” principles.
This approach was meant to help the church survive in case of persecution or the expulsion of European personnel. At the same time, Nommensen, in his paternalism and conservative social ethics, welcomed the colonial administration as the best way for development and progress.
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The anthropocentric orientation of his theology led him to evangelize dialogically. He introduced instructions for baptism by posing questions about bliss, eternal life, and obedience to the triune God, rather than by starting with the creation story in Genesis and the people of Israel.
His idea of an organically growing Christian life and ethos rested
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Dr. Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen was born in Nordstrand Island between Denmark and Germany on February 6, 1834. Supported by Rcheinische Mission Gesellschaft (RMG), in 1861 he sailed for Sumatra. In 1864 he was able to settle among the Toba Bataks in the valley of Silindung, Northern Sumatra.
It was the beginning of a singular Christian career
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Our workers and missionaries serving in the campuses of Central Philippines have been busy week after week, visiting schools, proclaiming the Good News to masses of students as well as in room to room preaching and personal witnessing.
Here are the latest updates from our faithful workers on the island of Bohol:
Last week, our team went
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 Our ministry in East Malaysia to the displaced Filipinos have been on going for more than a year – several hundred children who could not attend school now learn to read and write in our literacy centers. Sometimes we wonder about the kids we once met on our earlier trips – are they still faithfully
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 Two Fridays ago, I had a friend to send me to the airport late at night to pick up a missionary who was arriving from Manila on a 12.50 am flight. It was freezing cold in the waiting area at the arrival hall, but switching on my netbook to get some work done during the
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