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News Flash: Unreached Peoples Are Actually Real People

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226SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List You are you and no one else. They are themselves, one in 7 billion. The unreached. They have names. They have dimples and toenails and dreams. Every one of your…

101 Good Christian Missions Books For Your Viewing Pleasure

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387SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I’m always on the search for a great missions book. Unfortunately—and incredibly surprising to a guy like me who is absolutely passionate about missions stories—A good missionary book is tough to find.…

New Missions Show That Will Inspire You: The Mission Table

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278SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I recently came across a website called The Mission Table produced by Sixteen:Fifteen, and I have to say, I am super excited about seeing how it turns out. A bunch…

Unreached Moving To Boom Towns, Becoming More Accessible [Interactive Graphic]

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257SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This interactive map tracks global city population shifts and forecasts over time. Click the ‘play’ button at the top or move the slider to change the date; double-click a…

The Spread Of The Gospel To (Almost) The Whole World [Video]

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371SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This animated map is a powerful visual depiction of the most important movement in history: the spread of Christianity. Every frame is one year in the last 2000 years…

18 Images Of Cultural Differences You May Have Never Recognized Before [East Meets West Infographic]

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644SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Cultures are amazing things. Where/how/when someone grows up dictates (in large degree) how one responds to the circumstances of life. As a missionary who is constantly seeking to communicate…

Why Missionaries Can Never Go Home Again

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27.8kSHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Here’s a truth you may have never realized before. It’s something I have dealt with for nearly 20 years. My whole adult life has been lived outside my own…

Honor & Shame: Why Understanding Different Worldviews Is Important In Communicating The Gospel

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391SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List After nearly 20 years of missionary work, I have enjoyed finding terms and articulations that explain some of the situations I have experienced while sharing the gospel in China,…

209 Seconds That will Make you Question What Your Entire Existence Means [Video]

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388SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I am an infinitesimal speck of near nothingness in the vastness of the universe—Psalm 19:1 Click To Tweet My mind was recently blown to smitherines after seeing this Buzzfeed…

13 Things Mission-Minded People Do Differently That Sets Them Apart

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386SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Mission-minded people are different. That’s it. Somehow they manage to see the world from another perspective. The things they do and the decisions they make are just different than…

2014 A Year In Review | Within Reach Global

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247SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Download the PDF here Overview The year 2014 was a year of vision brought about by the experience gained from years past and the hope elicited by years to…

For Pure Missions Gold, Follow Me On Instagram

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225SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List For pure #missions gold, follow me on Instagram! My handle is @davidjoannes and you can view my recent posts below. For pure #missions gold, follow me on Instagram! https://instagram.com/davidjoannes/…

Shrink The World’s Population To A Village Of 100 And Unreached Peoples Start To Make Sense [Video]

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458SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Here’s a little bit about your world. There are 7 billion people in the world today, and 2 billion have never heard the life-saving message of the gospel. When…

92 Chinese Christian Leaders At Underground Training Respond To Missions Call

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359SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List We are so amazed how God has continued to bless this ministry! 92 leaders from 25 different churches attended our recent underground leadership training in China. Our team of…

Unveiling 2 Powerful Elements To Reach The Unreached At Our Missionary Convention

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292SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List There was a sense of oncoming glory as we planned this year’s second missionary convention. We felt in our spirits that something big was about to happen, and were…

I Have The Awful Tendency To Elevate Ministry Higher Than God Himself [Video]

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340SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I have to admit, I have a tendency to fall into this same trap. The trap of elevating the ministry, or work, of God higher than my affection for…

Pioneer, There’s A Wilderness Pathway Calling You [Video]

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281SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Pioneer. The lyrics of this song have been revolving in my mind, whispered upon my lips, for the last week: Pioneer, pioneer Keep pressing onward, beyond your fear Only…

Chinese National Missionaries Help Buddhist Monk Build Village Kitchen

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257SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Our local missionaries like to be in the action, where the real needs are, places where they are able to get their hands dirty and use their skills to…

Chinese Atheist Meets Jesus After Trying To Debunk Christianity

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280SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List He said he was an atheist, so I asked him why he kept coming to the Saturday fellowships at The Hub, Within Reach Global‘s outreach center. “Of course I love that…

Are These Pictures Of A Secret Church In Beijing? Or: How Christians Practice Their Faith Under An Atheist Government

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479SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List When trying to understand the Church in China, it’s easy to let predetermined narratives drive our interpretation of the things we observe. A recent article in the Huffington Post…

50 Signs You’re An American Expat In China

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422SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “Only 3 of these didn’t apply to me!” our Within Reach Global missionary said. “This is so funny!” Disclaimer: you may not understand all the nuances between the lines,…

Why Are 2,000,000,000 Christ Followers Not Helping Or Telling The 2,000,000,000 Unreached?

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314SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List When will the Christian Church become so fed up with the reality of the number of unreached peoples? When will the reality of unreached peoples become unacceptable to us?…

Missions Exists Because Worship Doesn’t. What Does That Even Mean?

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356SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List If you care about Christian missions at all, you’ve probably heard this phrase: “Missions exists because worship doesn’t.” – John Piper So what does that really mean? God’s…

10 Things That Change Once You’ve Lived Overseas

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305SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List The expat overseas life is tough to explain, but this top 10 list sums up quite well the challenges and victories that one faces in the expat lifestyle. I…

Our First Thought Was To Get Financial Support From Wealthy Chinese Businessmen, But It Turned Into So Much More

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419SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Recently, one of our missionaries had a brilliant idea. Why not present the Within Reach Global vision of reaching unreached peoples to wealthy Chinese Christian businessmen and businesswomen? For…

Underground Missionaries See Healings In Discipleship Class On Historically Persecution High Alert National Day

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324SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Our missionaries are action people. They are easily bored by the status quo. They are counter-cultural ragamuffins. It’s National Day in China right now, and everyone is enjoying a…

Unreached: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

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366SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This blog has been adapted from original post at eurasianorthwest.org Imagine you are the Chief Operations Officer at a charitable foundation. Your CEO assigns the important task of feeding the “Hungry”…

Why Should The Church Focus On Reaching The Unreached?

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250SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List You want to give to places where there is great fruitfulness. Everyone wants their lives to count for something, to create true life transformation and community impact. So it…

Extending The Church To Where The Church Is Not, At Least Not Yet

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362SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List The ministry of Within Reach Global is continually growing! More volunteer missionaries. More visiting teams. More life impact. We are excited about the growth and partnerships being formed, and…

As I Watched These Precious Chinese Children Crying, I Wished I Could Just Reach Through My Screen And Hug Them

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497SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Watching these precious little Chinese children cry as they relive the tragedy of their broken family stories is hard to watch. My heart is moved. I feel my heart…

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