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Stop Sending Missionaries: Why More Isn’t Always Better [Video]

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274SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List It was an incredibly engaging conversation during our live video missions broadcast on Blab. Check out the replay here. Steve Schirmer, president of Silk Road Catalyst, and I interviewed Steve Jennings in the United Arab Emirates who recently wrote a blog called, “Stop Sending Missionaries: Why More Isn’t Always…

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3 Reasons Why Cross Cultural Missionaries Struggle To Be Home For The Holidays

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584SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List It’s happening right now, in real time, live, in the hearts of international cross cultural missionaries all over the world who are visiting home for the holidays. They themselves struggle to articulate the unique array of emotions bombarding their spirits. They feel bad for thinking the things they do.…

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Joshua Project: Highlighting The Unreached [Video]

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208SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I asked Duane Frasier, researcher at Joshua Project, this question: “Do missions data, numbers and statistics really matter? How do they make a difference?” He did a great job answering, but for me it was a rhetorical question. @joshuaproject Do missions data/numbers/statistics matter? Do they make a difference? Click…

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Jesus Through The Multifaceted Lens Of Culture [Video]

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236SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This was a riveting conversation about how culture affects how we see faith and understand God. Here’s my thoughts about this topic, Jesus Through The Multifaceted Lens Of Culture: Revelation 7:9 tells us that every nation, tribe, people and language—every ethnolinguistic tribe—will be represented before the throne of God…

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