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| Day 24 - Giving Challenge - World Mission Offering | |
| Our church began the World Mission Offering (WMO) in 1981, and so far we have given over $4.1 million for mission causes through this offering! The offering was set up to be an all-encompassing, year-round (November to October) missions offering... |
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| Day 23 - Sacrificial Giving | |
| It is frequently said of my wife and myself, “You two surely have the gift of hospitality and giving.” This may be true – but I didn’t learn to exercise these gifts without some kicking and prodding from the Lord. God is definitely the driving force... |
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| Day 22 - Radio Evangelism Among Nomads | |
| You can imagine the complexities of bringing the gospel to a significantly different culture - especially a nomadic one. Compound culture differences with language barriers, deep rooted traditions, complex religious beliefs and a people group... |
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| Day 21 - State of the Unreached World | |
| Are people motivated to action and involvement by inspiration or by information? That question is discussed among our Global Ministry staff and leadership on a fairly regular basis. Not to over- generalize... but when we discuss this topic... |
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| Day 20 - Making Disciples, the Heart of Glocal Missions | |
| Have you ever pondered the words Jesus used in the Great Commission? He said, "Go," "Preach," "Teach," and “Make Disciples." What stands out about these words is that they suggest verbal action. It seems so simple - something that we have always known... |
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| Day 19 - Partnering with Indigenous Churches to Reach their Peoples | |
| Jesus’ Great Commission to us in Matthew 28:19 is simple and direct: go and make disciples of all nations. That command is at the heart of our Global Missions effort. The key to reaching “all nations” is finding a way to offer the gospel message... |
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| Day 18 - Watch People Grow through Medical Missions | |
| It was with a broken heart I received the news I could not go back to Africa to resume my career as a missionary nurse practitioner. I had fallen in love with the people and the country. So why would God pull the carpet out from under me? Sure, I had... |
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| Day 17 - Friends of Africa - African Urban Ministry in the US | |
| This summer I had the great privilege of leading a group of Texas Baptist Students to New York City on a GoNow Missions Impact Team. One of the projects we participated in was teaching ESL at the Pulaar Center in Brooklyn. Pulaar is the name... |
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| Day 16 - The Church is Bigger Than You Think! | |
| The Church is bigger than you think. That is the truth. It is also the title of a book by missiologist Patrick Johnstone (Great Britain: Christian Focus Publications, 1998). In the introduction to this book, Johnstone concludes that the Church... |
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| Day 15 - Listening Prayer in Unreached Areas | |
| They called it “listening prayer.” “It sounded intimidating,” I thought going into the mission trip last summer. Mission trips typically have a plan. Lots of prayer goes into the decisions of where to go or who to work with. Those decisions are usually... |
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| Day 14 - The Local Church Impacting Unengaged Peoples for Eternity | |
| As CR Baptist Church was pouring its heart out to God, rebels attacked a N. village forty miles from their church with mortars. Frightened, the N. villagers fled their homes and hid in the jungle. Rebel soldiers completely burned their village. Fearing... |
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| Day 13 - International Day of Prayer for The Persecuted Church | |
| The 20th Century saw more persecution against Christians than the 19 preceding centuries combined. While communist oppression has lessened in some countries in recent decades, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist opposition to freedom of religious... |
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| Day 12 - What would you choose to do | |
| We were in the midst of a long discussion with several followers of Islam where we live. We had talked about Jesus being the Son of God and all the words in the Bible are God’s words spoken to men whom He inspired to write them. We listened... |
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| Day 11 - Bible Translation | |
| 3,000 language groups in the world still need the Bible in their own language. If it has taken 2,000 years to translate the New Testament into 1,400 languages that are currently translated, how long will it take to complete the task? There are... |
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| Day 10 - Called to Serve Alone | |
| The four hour drive from the capital city to Ditiandu didn’t seem so bad at first. H. made several stops along the paved highway, fueling her 4-wheel drive pick-up, purchasing bread to feed her travelers and greeting friends who lived in... |
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| Day 9 - Evangelism that Transcends Language | |
| A man alone on a bus in Playa del Carmen...a woman in a dental chair in Loma Blanca...a teenage girl in the pharmacy waiting room in Morazán...a woman whose husband had just left her in Cancun...an Indian wandering into the Cabecar village in Talamanca... |
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| Day 8 - Response to Disaster | |
| Bunk beds were tap dancing on the floor! People were shouting “Get out, get out!” In the narrow streets and alleyways, one could hear motorcycles and jitneys revving up, people running and shouting, children screaming and crying. Another earthquake... |
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| Day 7 - Places of “No Response” | |
| We knew it was a long walk uphill to visit this village, but we were excited. Someone from this village had expressed interest in how we teach the Bible. We were hopeful that if we could find him he would invite us to teach God's Word. Culture... |
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| Day 6 - Mission Arlington | |
| When my family lived in South Korea where we spent 10 years as foreign missionaries, we moved among the people. We went from village to village sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Likewise, the Mission Arlington Church moves into the community where... |
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| Day 5 - Juarez Valley | |
| About five years ago, our Juarez Mission Team began a partnership with a church in the Juarez Valley. The small towns of this valley dotted the highway from Juarez to Porvenir. The five or so miles between each quiet pueblo provided a fertile landscape... |
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| Day 4 - New Realities - Worldwide Trends that Affect World Evangelization | |
| There has never been any great expectation greater than the sense of anticipation in heaven as God prepared the world for the arrival of His Son. Paul describes this unequaled event in history happening in the “fullness of time.” The implication in... |
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| Day 3 - Western Fulani | |
| Fofo. Or should I say “hello”? My name is K. I’m one of the 450,000 Western Niger Fulani. Eight years ago, I was a cattle herder like many of my friends. For a Fulani man, that’s a highly honored job. However, I was herding for someone... |
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| Day 2 - Empowerment Through Prayer | |
| In his book entitled, Wanting More: Growing in God and Service to the World, Joel Vestal, President of ServLife International, shares the story of his multiple interactions with Mother Theresa of Calcutta. As a college student... |
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| Day 1 - Spiritual Awakening | |
| God has allowed me the honor of witnessing the largest spiritual awakening to Christ among Muslims in the world. In only fifteen years this spiritual awakening in a small Muslim country in South Asia has seen more than half a million... |
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| Prequel - Go Glocal | |
| Preparing for our annual World Mission Offering Emphasis is always an exciting time for our team. As we attempt to share with you the many things God is doing through FBCA to reach a lost world, we reflect upon His acts of faithfulness and provision... |
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