David Joannes
348SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List What are you doing right now for the kingdom of God? Are you actively involved in missional living and reaching people around you? Maybe you need a little placement,…
read more444SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List The quiet conversations in Christian communities in regards to unreached people groups is, across the board in general, extremely rare. That’s why I’m so thrilled that David Platt, author…
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468SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List The Christian population surrounds the unreached world on all sides, yet millions are still without gospel hope. Pretty mind blowing isn’t it? I hope that these stats and numbers…
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480SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This quote sums up last week’s trip to bless the children living with HIV/AIDS at Agape Home in Chiang Mai, Thailand: “You give but little when you give of…
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392SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List We’ve heard it said, “If the road is easy, you’re likely going the wrong way.” If that’s the case, we must be doing something right! Our missionaries at Within…
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278SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I love legacies. I often ask myself, “What kind of legacy am I leaving? Will my mark on the world be only temporal, or will it ripple into eternity?”…
read more378SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This post from Adam Mosley has been making the rounds online, spreading like wildfire. I appreciate the honesty within this article. There is really a lot of truth to…
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452SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List We have recently began working with orphans and underprivileged children in the area heavily hit by this earthquake. Check out These Underprivileged Children And Orphans Prove That No…
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245SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “The harvest is in the seed.” That’s what our local missionary, Brother Yang, told me many years ago. We are now seeing fruit spring up in an area where…
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392SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List One thing we promise all our visiting short term teams: we will let you experience things on the mission field that will be stories you can tell your children…
read more370SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This month we hosted 2 short term teams from America, from Victory Faith Fellowship in Spokane, WA and from The Rock of Roseville in Northern California. A total of…
read more258SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List My friend Toby at The Asian Rough Rider just posted something highly notable, and something I have been hashing over for a long time. He, of course is Asian,…
read more466SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Being a missionary is difficult because you cannot calculate success like a businessman can, measuring results by total assets, number of staff, or financial income. Life transformation is not…
read more313SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Chinese Christians vowed to “guard their church to the end” while facing the growing anti-church campaign in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Local pastors and church members from various churches…
read more226SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Here I am writing about the same thing again: the unreached and unengaged people groups of the 10/40 Window. I’m writing again because I am convicted and confounded by…
read more457SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List In 2008, China declared internet addiction to be a clinical disorder, saying it’s a top health threat to its teenagers. “Some kids are so hooked on these games that…
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329SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Sometimes my Facebook feed inspires. After unfollowing all the people who did nothing but post selfies of their beautiful faces all day, A richer social media experience returned. I…
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362SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Follow @davidjoannes My Instagram feed is has been overwhelmed by a series of loaded leg guns! Yes, I follow Ai Weiwei, a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation,…
read more431SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Over the last 2 decades, I’ve put tens of thousands of hours into learning Mandarin Chinese. The result is, obviously, I am now fluent in the language. Of course,…
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340SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List A tongue-in-cheek look at some sure-fire ways to avoid becoming a missionary. 10 Ways To Avoid Becoming A Missionary @within_reach Click To Tweet 1. Ignore Jesus’ request in John…
read more391SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those…
read more434SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List For some reason, we’re under the strange impression that to change the world, we need to drop everything in our lives and do something radical for God. While God…
read more397SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List China bans all internet searches for ‘big yellow duck’ as part of Tiananmen Square anniversary clampdown after prankster substitutes ducks for tanks in viral image. Why China is banning…
read more327SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List 9. They happened during threats of persecution. You can’t just go out to a public lake and start baptizing people in China. Even with the promise of “religious freedom”,…
read more513SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Children 8 to 14 years old prepare and cook meals to pass them out to the elderly homeless around Orphan Home outreach center in China! This is an incredible new…
read more274SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List On May 1-3 we hosted our Within Reach Global annual student camp. Every year it is a powerful time of college students and young professionals being exposed to the…
read more579SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Believe it or not, it’s possible to have a bad short term missions experience. Most times, this is not the fault of the situation or organization. Often, the root…
read more470SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Adapted from trotters41.com. See original post by Jonathan Trotter at trotters41.com I am constantly bombarding the internet with reasons why people should partake in reaching unreached people groups and…
read more446SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List After my initial travels in China in 1995, I was amazed at the rapid growth of Christianity via a tumultuous history and strong social and cultural pressures. Millions were…
read more452SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Dear Apple fanboys and Android fanboys, it’s a heated discussion: which is the superior mobile OS? In a recent Facebook thread, I was seeking suggestions for a new smart…
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