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Do What You Love And Love What You Do
David Joannes

310SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This is something I think about every single day. Do What You Love And Love What You Do! Click To Tweet As a missional starter and artistic creative, a husband, father and advocate for social justice, my roles are…

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How Maps Mess Up Our Mindsets
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252SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This is a map of Africa. It’s probably bigger than you recall it. See the details of this map here. Well, it’s time to add a post on the controversial and niche debate topic of topography and how it impacts…

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Get 180,000 Thai People Invited To Franklin Graham’s Festival
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302SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List For the first time in Thailand’s history, the Abundant Life Festival with Franklin Graham is coming to Chiang Mai on November 22-24, 2013. Let’s help get 180,000 Thai people to attend! It’ll only take $4,500! Help us print 180,000…

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Rise of the Underground Chinese Church
David Joannes

128SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Our 13 local underground Chinese missionaries and 8 foreign staff and interns are continuing to grow and expand this ministry through their faithful efforts among unreached people groups and college students. Not only that, faithful American and international financial…

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John 3:16 from a Thai Buddhist Worldview – Total Opposite!
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687SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List A missionary friend of mine explains how a Thai person would interpret the most basic and clear verses to the western mind. There are many difficulties and misunderstandings to overcome in order for someone to simply understand the Gospel,…

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Missions History Today: August
David Joannes

207SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List As someone who is always seeking to live missionally in cross cultural contexts, it is exciting to see how where I am now on the mission field is in direct relation to those who heave fearlessly tread uncharted territories…

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How’s Within Reach Global Doing? A Candid Answer
David Joannes

242SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Five years ago, we were sitting in a circle praying and worshipping at a nearby lake during one of our local missionary conventions. Each team member was asked to consider where they would be in five years. After everyone…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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