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The 100% Model: Taking A Page From The Charity: Water Handbook
David Joannes

282SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Ever since I heard of charity: water’s bold promise to the general public, that 100% of their donations would go directly to the field to fund water projects, I was enamored. I coveted their promise, and sought to come…

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The Great Imbalance Of Global Missions
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495SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List The great imbalance of missions is the fact that most missionaries go to or are sent to reached areas of the earth—regions where the Church already exists and the name of Jesus is known. On the flipside, there are…

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Missions Ain’t That Mysterious
David Joannes

197SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I have recently come to understand that many Christians do not get involved in long term missions because of the mystery surrounding what missionaries do. Or perhaps what missions actually is. Or possibly because they feel they have to…

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Sponsor Chinese Student For Christian Camp
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128SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Every May, we host our annual Within Reach Global English Camp for the college students and young professionals that have been attending our weekly English Corners throughout the year. In this camp they will learn to improve their English…

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When A Witch Doctor Dies
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171SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List When a witch doctor dies, the unexpected occurs.   No chopping off of chicken heads and sprinkling blood in animistic ritual. No dangling dog teeth over corpses. No dark wizardry. We have shared meals of live grub worms and cat…

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Missions History Today: April
David Joannes

138SHARESShareTweetJoin 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…

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A Missionary Who Steals From The Rich To Give To The Poor
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352SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List by Todd Fisher My friend Dave is a modern day Robin Hood. As I sat down to write this last October, he was enduring a lonely 15 hour flight back home to his family in the Philippines. You see…

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Unreached Is Not Unevangelized Is Not Unengaged
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291SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I, like Justin Long, often hear people alluding to thoughts like, “There are unreached people groups right here in Phoenix / Dallas / New York / [enter city here]. Why do I need to go to Africa or China?”…

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My Trip To The Abortion Clinic
David Joannes

128SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Blog by JP, Within Reach Global staff I have a friend whose mom works as one of the only doctors in what is basically an abortion clinic in a very poor area of the city. Not ago my friend…

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Reaching Unengaged People Groups Through Urban Mission
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284SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I have spent some serious time on rural Chinese mountain tops, hours conversing with former headhunting tribes, ethnic minorities and unreached people groups. Real life people kind of ministry, where life rubs off onto life, and handshakes and hugs…

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