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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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ABWE Partners With Moody Bible Institute in Strategic Educational Initiative for Global Missions

Harrisburg, Pa.: Association of Baptist for World Evangelism (ABWE), an international missions agency with a century-long legacy of evangelism, discipleship, and church planting, is partnering with Moody Bible Institute of Chicago to grant ABWE�...

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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...

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The Clear, True Gospel: Expert Voices From the 2023 Radius Conference

If we get the gospel wrong, nothing else we do in global missions matters. During the 2023 Radius Conference at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, Calif., Alex Kocman of The Missions Podcast sat down with several key inf...

Chris and Heather Christensen

Chris and Heather Christensen have been missionaries with ABWE for over 15 years. They have 5 wonderful children from ages 2 through 15. Chris is a registered nurse with a strong desire to see churches healthy and living missionally. Heather serves the Lor...

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