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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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407SHARESShareTweetJoin 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 in the context of their culture. If we simply share the gospel message through the lens of our own worldview,…

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Chinese College Students Get Saved At Our Student Camp

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310SHARESShareTweetJoin 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 students from our 5 weekly English Corners and pour into their lives relationally, emotionally and spiritually. This year the theme…

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Persecution And Interrogation After Seeing Breakthrough Among Unreached People

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384SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “They beat him up! They kicked him,” they cried. We held each others’ shoulders in sadness. “They beat up our beloved brother!” Our van bumped along the winding dirt paths leading up to an unreached people group that we have been targeting for almost 10 years. The banana plantations…

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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 misty mountains, in the heart of these valleys lies a dragon. Head peering through the misty mountains, in the heart…

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