How are you involved in international missions? In the past, mission agencies gave you three options: pray, give, or go. Hopefully, you’re doing at least one of these things. I’d like to invite you to a fourth way to participate in what God is doing around the world. You may not be aware of this, [...]
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Idea: Subscribe to Foreign Media
A good way to help your church get a feel for a people group and it’s culture is to subscribe to a foreign newspaper. You may not realize this, but many newspapers from around the world are also printed here in the United States for the immigrant market (often in English). Since everything is published [...]
Why Europe?
Of all the places in the world, in the face of tremendous spiritual need, why would we focus on Europe? Aren’t France and Spain famous for their cathedrals? Wasn’t Germanic Europe the seat of Reformation thought? The truth of the matter is this: neither church buildings nor history save. The spiritual climate of Europe is [...]
“It’s European!”
Purses for men. Smelly candles. Awful-tasting chewing gum. A bastard child of peanut butter and chocolate. Subtitled movies. Uncomfortable fiberboard furniture. Risque advertisements. Expensive dress-up loafers. No matter how odd, ugly, effeminate, debased or impractical a product may be, in the United States, the sales trump card is to claim that said object is “European.” [...]
Ideas: Connecting Online
How are you involved in international missions? In the past, mission agencies gave you three options: pray, give, or go. Hopefully, you’re doing at least one of these things. I’d like to invite you to a fourth way to participate in what God is doing around the world. You may not be aware of this, [...]
Idea: Virtual Missions
Not so long ago, internet chat rooms were mostly populated by perverts and turbonerds. The current generation of young adults, however, has moved into the neighborhood and changed the rules. They’ve never known life without computers. For them, meeting people online is a normal part of life. They have real and meaningful relationships with people [...]
Why Europe?
For some time now, Europe has been ignored as a mission field. Part of this may have to do with the fact that it doesn’t seem, well, foreign enough to us. France? Spain? People go to Europe on vacation, how lost could European people be? Myanmar, Azerbaijan and any place ending in -stan -its the [...]
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