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Most missionaries aspire to complete a full cycle of ministry: to see nationals saved, discipled, and incorporated into local churches which, in turn, plant new churches and send their own cross-cultural missionaries.
Jim and Allene Latzko ...
Moms: fight the temptation to sentimentalize your calling and clasp your children in the death grip that cloaks itself as mother love.
What a higher calling to suffer with your Lord and Savior in sending your sons and daughters with the mes...
How will we know when we have finished the work of missions? At what point can we say that nations are reached—and the Great Commission is completed?
The short answer is: When the Lord returns! I know that. You know that. Yet there is mo...
Doubts about serving are in the rear-view mirror.
A Letter From Two MissionariesGod is leading us to serve Him in Glypsusa, and we are both nervous and excited. Our home church is behind us, and we are trusting the Lord to provide a host of...
Many believers cherish the 15th chapter of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians.
It begins with a clear presentation of the gospel, and cruises into a detailed explanation of the concept of resurrection, Jesus’ victory of sin and death. It...
Have you ever wondered why you don’t see many LGBTQ-identifying people coming to Christ?
Or do you know the answer to that question, but don’t know what to do about it?
Do you know someone in the LGBTQ community who expresses th...
“The shoes of over a hundred children lined the front porch steps, as heavy rains drove the group indoors for the last two days of Vacation Bible School in this Asian country.
Children and youth here are sometimes banned from reading the Bible in their ...
“Iquitos tower, this is OB-1408. I’m at Pevas, en route from Islandia, at 4,000 feet. The military is here. I don’t know what they want.”
Kevin Donaldson’s terse words cut through radio static as the missionary pilot attempted to raise air tra...
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In April 2001, tragedy struck deep in the jungles of Peru when a missionary flight carrying the Bowers family was mistakenly shot down during a counternarcotics operation gone wrong. Roni Bowers and her infant daughter, Cha...
How can Christians understand individuals connected with the LGBT movement a mission field—full of people made in the image of God, in need of the gospel? ABWE North America missionary Jim Childs shares his story to help answer.
Jim is help...
