Archive | July, 2009

Reverse Mission Trip, pt.2

To keep going on my reverse mission trip theme. I wonder if this would work. I have never tried it and I am sure someone has so I would be interested in how did it work? Instead of you bringing your church to “do” a basketball camp or soccer camp that you could bring a [...]

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One Hit Wonder

Matthew’s Table, a gathering in Lebanon, TN, has launched a new initiative to raise funds for the church’s mission efforts in Europe. Pastor Michael Carpenter owns Java Joe’s Lebanon’s best (in our opinion) coffee shop. The shop has a way of bringing out the best in people–they once had three straight days of drive-through customers [...]

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Adventures in Ethnolinguistic People Groups

This month on The Upstream Collective blog, we’re focusing on the missiological concept of people groups. Now, before you get that glazed-over, “Here-we-go-with-the-missiological-concepts-again” look, consider this: “people group thinking” could radically change the way you do ministry in your context. It used to be that missionaries were sent to minister to the people of a [...]

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