A recent WWBWWB series on borders, language and culture encouraged us to use Biblical language within the borders of the church; we mold members of the Church by expressing what we believe in Biblical terms rather than delegating the language we use in our culture. Implicit in this argument is that we have a Bible …
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The Key Role of the Bible in World Missions
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New Life Missionaries: Links to Publicly Available Newsletters and Blogs
Posted Jun 10th, 2012 By Dean in Missionaries, Missions News Blog With | No CommentsI’ve created a page on blogger that contains links to recent posts by missionaries supported by New Life (financially and in prayer). Full URL: The link is at http://newlifelamesa.blogspot.com. A clickable link can be accessed if you first click on the title of this entry. This I hope is temporary until I find a better …
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Piper Responds to the Muslim Convert “Insider Movement”
Posted May 17th, 2012 By Dean in Missions News Blog With | No CommentsFrom The Gospel Coalition: John Piper responds to questions about the Insider Movement . Editors’ Note: Christians didn’t discover the need for missions in the Muslim world on September 11, 2001. The Middle East is the homeland of our faith, too, the site of many great acts of God’s miraculous redemption. Long before the Twin …
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Many outcomes are possible across the ‘Arab Spring’
Posted May 6th, 2012 By Dean in Missions News Blog With | No CommentsFrom MERF website: Noel Weeks, Professor of history at Sydney University is chairman of MERF Australia. Anybody who thinks history is irrelevant should follow closely the events consuming many Arab countries at the moment and the attitudes of Western governments and commentators to those events. It can be argued that the West is seeing the events …
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William Carey at 250
Posted Aug 21st, 2011 By Dean in Missions News Blog With | No CommentsThis past week marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Carey, often called “The Father of Modern Missions”. A very nice blog post by Timothy George at the Gospel Coalition is found here, which starts Earlier this week, William Carey’s 250th birthday arrived. Born on August 17, 1761, he was the son of a …
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Update from Japan
Posted Apr 10th, 2011 By Dean in Missionaries, Missions News Blog With | No CommentsA recent update on the relief efforts in Japan are up at the MTW web site; please visit there and especially the Apr 7 update with corresponding youtube videos. The videos are dramatic and very helpful in reminding us at the devastation, but also of God’s grace in providing help to those effected. From the MTW …
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Help Japan
Posted Mar 22nd, 2011 By Dean in Missionaries, Missions News Blog With | No CommentsFrom the MTW Web site: http://www2.mtw.org/home/site/templates/mtw_splash.asp?_resolutionfile=templatespath|mtw_splash.asp&area_2=public/General/Update MTW has issued a Disaster Response Appeal for Japan, and we are committed to making a strong response. We know that God has placed us in a position of strength with the depth of our team, their broad presence, and long ministry history in Japan. Please join MTW and …
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OM’s medical camps provide life-saving help in Pakistan
Posted Oct 10th, 2010 By Dean in Missions News Blog With | No Commentsfrom http://omusa.org/articles/r23545: The OM team in northern Pakistan continues to provide medical help for hundreds of people in villages and relief camps. The team is grateful to the local church for help in arranging these life-saving medical camps. People receiving treatment commented: “This is the first medical camp we have come across which provides good, …
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U.S. Christians Urged to ‘Not Grow Weary’ in Aiding Pakistan Flood Victims
Posted Oct 5th, 2010 By Dean in Missionaries, Missions News Blog With | No CommentsIn a Christian Post article, K.P. Yohanen of Gospel for Asia exhorts the church to “not grow weary in well-doing” and continue to stand with those who are bringing relief – and God’s healing love – to the victims of Pakistan’s massive flooding. The article goes on to state: World Vision, the largest Christian relief group in …
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Mission Vida Nueva’s Juan Arjona and Danny Perez Working to Convert Empty Lots to Soccer Fields
Posted Feb 1st, 2010 By admin in Missionaries, Missions News Blog With | No Comments
Mission Vida Nueva Pastor Juan Arjona Todd and the church’s community outreach director, Danny Perez work to turn empty lot into soccer fields. (Photo courtesy of North County Times, Hayne Palmour IV – Staff photographer). Please go to the article here and read about what Juan and Danny are doing to provide a recreation area …
