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Short-term Mission Trips: Take a Year to Change the World – And Yourself (Guest Post)

December 8, 2011

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{Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a guest post written by Laura Davis, who, with her husband, Nate, spent a year on a short-term mission trip with Converge Worldwide in Manila, Philippines discovering the needs of young women caught in the snare of human trafficking and building bridges to meet some of those needs.  […]

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What a Missionary Desires from Churches

August 1, 2011

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Earlier this year I posted What a Church Desires from Missionaries in which I said that churches desire faithfulness, communication and relationship from missionaries.  Now turn about is fair play. During 20 years of ministry in missions, I’ve experienced and observed three characteristics of churches that, when existent, radically alter the experience of the missionary […]

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Missional Church Planting or Misguided? – Describing the Sending Church (Part 2)

May 31, 2011

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-Continued from Part 1 “God spoke to me through a Newsweek article and instead of planting a church our new tool for reaching Furnia is to create a network of orphanages.  There are three thousand orphans in Furnia.  The Muslims don’t believe in adoption so our new strategy is going to make a lot of […]

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Missional Church Planting or Misguided? – Describing the Sending Church (Part 1)

May 26, 2011

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Blue Church on the Highway is all about the kingdom of God.  Pastor Jason is a mover and a shaker.  His heart is to bring the glory of God to the nations, including his own.  Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth won’t know what hit them. Yellow Church of Broad Valley has […]

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Missionary Appointee Leaves a Changed Woman After Completing Support Raising

February 28, 2011

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Today a Converge missionary leaves for the field after spending 19 months raising her financial and prayer support.  Her name and location are withheld due to the sensitive nature of her ministry but I will refer to her as Julie here {because Julie is one of my favorite girl names}. A Discouraged Missionary Appointee Missionaries […]

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