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Doctrinal Statement

Our Doctrinal Statement Unchanging Truth, Updated Language Download Our Doctrinal Statement Watch Our President’s Explanation Video Preface For over 2,000 years, the church has sought to faithfully guard the good deposit of the fa...
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Not All Church Planting in Missions Is Created Equal

More than any time in recent memory, evangelical missions is focused on planting churches. In the previous century, as the World Council of Churches drifted toward liberalism and ecumenism, some missiologists began to downplay the role of establishing...
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The Nations and Natalism

There’s a long-running joke in evangelical circles that Baptists do all their church growth through missions and evangelism, while Presbyterians do all theirs through having children. Like most good humor, this joke relies on sweeping generalization. ...

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Send Well With ABWE Empower your church to confidently send workers into God’s harvest. Here’s how. Start Your Church’s Journey Choose Your Pathway: I Want to... Send a Worker From My Church Better Serve Wo...
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Reasons for Doing Ministry as a Family

Even before we were married, my husband and I felt the Lord leading us both to a life of full-time missions. We got married, planning to move to Indonesia within the first year. God changed our direction on our first vision trip as a married couple, wh...
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Worship: The Heart of Missions

What is the ultimate goal of missions? Is it reaching the unreached? Is it planting churches? Is it practicing biblical evangelism? All of these are indispensable elements, but they are merely means, not the end. The end goal and ultimate purpose of mi...
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7 Christmas Carols That Are Actually About Missions

There are times I think Christmas carols are just plain better than our normal songs and hymns. Why? So much of modern worship is emotional. Jesus is presented merely as a loving friend rather than as a dying, rising, reigning Lord. Yet, a...
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How To Endure All Things

“I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I...
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Raising Support Without Selling Your Soul (or Blood)

When I asked my best friend and colleague, a single missionary named Shantelle, how she made it through pre-field without selling her soul, her answer was “I didn’t. I, for sure, sold it.” Pre-field ministry, support-raising, partner...