Partnering with Local Churches to Train and Send Missionaries Worldwide
This was shared this with me and I wanted to pass it on here. It contains some very good foundational principles for Biblical mission work. Carey and his team set forth principles that still guide us today. Here are excerpts from the
Oswald J Smith was a Canadian pastor and evangelist who lived from 1889 until 1986. At an early age, he desired to be a missionary. However, he was turned down by mission agencies due to poor health, which plagued him
Every year, many local churches put together a missions conference. Planning a missions conference can be very challenging, especially when coming up with ideas to make the conference fresh and exciting. Here are a few random ideas that I have
THE LOG By Perry Draper (Reprinted by permission from HIS, student magazine of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, C. 1963.) It was a large log, one of the largest I’d seen. Surely some fine lumber would come from this freshly-chopped monument. This
Missions 101: Part 1 – What are the steps that lead to a person becoming a missionary? First, God works in an individual’s heart about being a missionary. Because it is God’s will is that we reach the world with
One huge reason to take a furlough is to be a blessing an encouragement to those churches and individuals who have supported the missionary. Reporting in to supporting churches is a very Biblical thing to do. Acts 14:26-28 says, “And thence
