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Missionary Guest Contributor — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:54:43 +0000

Back when I was a celebrity in American churches—about to move to Communist China to be a Missionary—I tried to anticipate what ministry in China would look like. I remember telling a youth group that I expected it to be a good place to find out what it really means to be a Christian—that reading

Reports from the mission field (2)

Deb — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:44:04 +0000

There are some missionaries who cannot ‘advertise’ their real identify that they are God’s servants, because they are working in restricted access nations (RANs). So, they do not compromise their security by taking photos, or emailing sensitive reports to the home church.

A few weeks ago, the small group which I am a part of

“But they are just rice-christians”

Lisa — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:31:38 +0000

How many times have we heard that? I can’t tell you how many times I have! Someone will visit another work and perhaps they see that workers or converts are being paid or supported. Maybe they see that the impoverished unbelievers only seem to come if they can get something like food or money or

English teachers are the missionaries of the 21st Century

Admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:05:43 +0000

Whenever we think of effective missionaries to Asia or other undeveloped countries, we often think of Christian doctors. Many young Christians who want to serve their Lord have studied to be doctors so that they can be effective. They believe that as doctors they can enter restricted-access nations (RAN’s). And they believe that as doctors

Building bridges for room to room evangelism

Deb — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:34:08 +0000

I was reading the online journal of one of our brethren who was with the evangelistic team recently for a week, to shoot videos and produce a short film of the campus evangelism campaign. Prior to this trip, he had no background of the missions work in the Philippines at all, but after a week

Wisdom – missionaries and Asian airports

Admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:33:55 +0000

I’ve been asked by Western mission boards help their missionaries “navigate” their way in Asian airports. They are concerned that their missionaries will not be able to find their way in airports in exotic lands like Beijing, China. I guess, they were expecting all the signs to be in strange Chinese characters!

Even some Asian missionaries

Wisdom – missionary travel procedures (passports)

Admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:38:38 +0000

Last night I got a call from a friend in the US telling me that his brother, who was supposed to speak at some mission conferences in Singapore, was unable to board the plane because his passport’s validity was less than 6 months! He asked me if there was something that I could do to

Wisdom – geography for missionaries

Admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:17:23 +0000

I have often heard statements like: “There is so much anti-Christian persecution in Indonesia, isn’t it foolish for you to go there?”

And I would reply: “There are 17,000 islands in Indonesia – so I have no problem finding one where it is peaceful!” The truth is that I will probably have no problem finding 16,999

Wisdom – ‘robber-proofing’ yourself in the mission-field

Admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:46:06 +0000

I often read in the newspaper of people being robbed in poor countries. I’ve been on hundreds of mission trips in poor countries, often lived for prolonged periods in city slums, and rural kampongs, slept on crowded long-distance overnight buses and ferry-boats – and have only been pick-pocketed once. That happened in the early days

The rural church in China – church music

Admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:38:18 +0000

The hundred church leaders gathered in that little farm-house sang with joy. We were supposed to be an illegal assembly but thankfully the majority in that cluster of houses in that village were Christians, so there was no need to subdue their voices. The next cluster of houses was some way off and the officials