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Swim Party, Buffet and Fun For Orphans And Underprivileged Children
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233SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Here’s something we love: urban college student ministry overlap that blesses an orphan home and center for underprivileged children! The Hub outreach center is full of college students who,…

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20 Years After My First Birthday In Asia, I Celebrate Again With Teen Mania International
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398SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I made my first trip from the United States across the Pacific to Asia in 1995. I was part of a Global Expeditions short term missions trip with Teen…

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The Exhaustive List Of Resources For Praying For The Unreached
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311SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List For all you cool cats out there who love missions to unreached peoples, this one’s for you. Click To Tweet This exhaustive list of resources for praying for the…

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10 Things I’ve Learned In My Last 20 Years Of Missionary Work In Asia
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848SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I landed in Hong Kong and China 20 years ago this month. Much has changed in and around me. The world is different. But if there is one thing…

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The End Is Near. It’s Time To Take Chances, Time To Be Risky
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368SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “The end is near. It’s time to be risky. It’s time to take chances.”   Our Within Reach Global missionary just texted me today. She has been living in…

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557 Buddhist Temples and A Whole Lot Of New Christians
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344SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List There’s a unique contrast of religious belief systems both existing and growing in Northern Thailand. With a population of 97% Buddhist adherents in Thailand, it is culturally expected that…

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I Wanna Build You A Garden In A Dry And Desert Land
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390SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “With bleeding hands we’ll plant the seeds.” Anyone who says that kind of thing is either crazy or seriously committed to their cause. I’m considering which is true of…

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This Timely Poem Is Infused With Glorious Truth Reminding Me Why I Do What I Do
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386SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I will admit to you a secret sensation that sometimes surfaces inside me. There is a certain sense of coldness felt toward the things that I am both busy…

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Dear Church, We’re Not Doing All We Can To Reach The Unreached World
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374SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List It’s really quite simple. Our mission from Jesus: go and make disciples of all nations. (Matthew 28:18-20) The results of our obedience: The end will come. (Matthew 24:14) So…

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Changing The Face Of The Christian Landscape In Thailand
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356SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “Ya know what we’re doing?” Kendall asked rhetorically. I shrugged. “We’re changing the face of the Christian landscape in Thailand.” Powerful statement. Even more powerful that it’s absolutely true.…

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I Want To Go Where The Reds Are [Interactive Maps]
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347SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List   Check out this interactive map from the International Mission Board Global Research. Look closely. Mental note: where are the reds? Check out this interactive map from the International…

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Honor/Shame: The Gospel Of Jesus Is Timeless, But How We Communicate It Requires A Deep Reset
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406SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List For the last 20 years, I have lived in honor/shame cultures. I am constantly seeking to understand and explore better methods of sharing the gospel to unreached people groups…

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Chinese College Students Get Saved At Our Student Camp
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305SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Every year, we host 2 college student camps at a resort on the outskirts of the city. It’s what we like to call our “big net” where we gather…

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In The Heart Of These Valleys Lies A Dragon
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288SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Spiraling down the terraces of banana plantations, tail coiled around the unsuspecting homes of spiritually and physically impoverished families, claws bearing into the hot soil, head peering through the…

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His Rifle Dug Into My Left Rib Cage
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315SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List 7:30 P.M., lovely, cramped motorcycle ride back to a small town in China. Me and a couple locals packed onto a bike. The sun was lowering along with the…

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The China Years [Book & Video]
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232SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List The China years don’t ever seem to stop for us. The storyline of our lives are entwined with the Motherland. We are caught in the web of the Middle…

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Hongyan Isn’t Going To Be Celebrating Easter This Year
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268SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Hongyan won’t be joining us in remembering Jesus this Easter. Disclaimer: This does not negate anything that Jesus Christ has done. She’s simply not able to join us in celebration…

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I Don’t Want To Be A Comfort-Seeking, Entertainment-Addicted, Security-Craving, Approval-Desiring Christian
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377SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Christians are experiencing unusual days in the United States of America. The opposition and even persecution we’re beginning to face is not unusual at all in the history of…

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Unreached People Groups: The Reason I’m Happy/Sad/Angry
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203SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List It continues to be my greatest passion my constant struggle my reason for battle. It’s my reason for joy the cause of my hope the root of my frustration.…

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#BlackandBlue vs WhiteandGold plus #UnreachedPeoples
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137SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List The internets have been in a frenzy as Twitter got into a pretty lively argument Thursday about whether the color of a particular dress was black and blue or…

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