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Don’t Complicate the “Missionary Call”

David Joannes

329SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This article was written by David Sitton, founder and president of To Every Tribe Ministries. David is a career church planting missionary who lived and worked in Papua New Guinea for 16 years, making first gospel contact with several headhunting, cannibalistic tribes. This has been re-posted at Desiring God.   I chuckle when I hear missionaries say they “surrendered…

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Death Of Pastor Samuel Lamb And His Impact On My Life

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501SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “More persecution, more growth!” Pastor Samuel Lamb grinned with delight, leaning toward us, as if he was letting us in on a well kept secret. “That is the history of the Church!” [CLICK TO TWEET] His joyful recollection of Chinese prison was startling. One might have expected a more somber reminiscence of his two decades…

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The Quiet Space Between Pioneering

David Joannes

205SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List As a proudly self proclaimed cross cultural Missional Starter (there may be a few others out there who also consider me a pioneer), I am coming to grips with the reality of my need for rest between exotic explorations. I have always been a go go go kind of guy. Status quo bores me.…

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Missions History Today: July

David Joannes

153SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Every time I read about what happened today in missions history, it excites me to see the bigger picture, the overall narrative of what God has been doing to reach every nation. God has called simple men and women throughout history to leave a mark of his glory upon his storyline, which leads us…

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