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Radio Emanuel is asking the Heaven and Home Hour to broadcast in Albania. Albania is 60% Muslim. The evangelical community is small and in need of solid Bible Teaching. For $12,480 we can broadcast our daily program to the Albanian people in their language and help reach this country with the Gospel. Your special offering will help us spread God’s word to this needy land. Listen to our April 8 broadcast which is devoted entirely to this mission project.
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Missionary News
| April 3, 2013 |
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Christians travel all over the world to visit the Garden Tomb in East Jerusalem to catch a glimpse of what is rumored to be the authentic tomb of Christ. On Easter Sunday morning people gathered around for the "SonRise" service to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus. The wonderful emphasis isn't whether or not this is the actual tomb of Christ, but that it is empty. Christ is risen!
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| March 15, 2013 |
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SIM (Serving in Mission) has a partnership with Union Cristiana Evangelica, a large flourishing church in Bolivia, with a goal to pioneer evangelical missions in Bolivia in order to present a stronger church presence among the people. Religious freedom in Bolivia is guaranteed, but the traditional Inca and Aymara religions mixed with Catholicism is still practiced by more than half the population.
SIM is working through ...
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| February 25, 2013 |
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The Bushmen in Botswana, Africa, are targeted by Serving in Mission (formerly the Sudan Interior Mission) for exposure to the gospel of Christ. The Bushmen's distinctive language of "clicks" and tonal qualities make it especially complex and difficult for translation work. Evangelism has been slow, but SIM hopes to reach every man, woman and child in Botswana with an introduction to the good news of Jesus and to help ...
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| February 8, 2013 |
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This series of articles help Christians to understand the particular issues facing foreign missionaries who have returned home, to relate to them wisely, and to love them effectively.
Last year as my family and I prepared to depart the foreign mission field on which we had been serving for ten years we began to prepare for what our mission agency told us could be a difficult adjustment period. ...
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| January 29, 2013 |
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This series of articles help Christians to understand the particular issues facing foreign missionaries who have returned home, to relate to them wisely, and to love them effectively.
One of the trickiest and most dangerous aspects of a space shuttle mission is re-entry. All things considered, orbiting 135 miles above planet Earth at a speed of 186,000 miles per hours is relatively risk free. However, ...
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| January 24, 2013 |
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This series of articles help Christians to understand the particular issues facing foreign missionaries who have returned home, to relate to them wisely, and to love them effectively.
After enduring the pressure and stress of daily life in a foreign culture for any number of years a foreign missionary feels led of God to return home to his “blue play dough” culture. Those in the culture in ...
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| January 14, 2013 |
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Among the Saafi people in Senegal, Africa, Musa has been ordained the first "official pastor" in the region. A 24 hour long party was thrown in his honor. People gave speeches, they watched a gospel movie, sang praise and worship songs, and feasted the whole day. Musa saw the party as a great opportunity to share the Gospel of Jesus to those who had never heard it before. He is leading a small group of men and they are ...
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| January 7, 2013 |
Are you interested in learning about some of the main events happening on the mission field in the last year? Assist News Service (ANS) has put together the "Top Mission Trends of 2012." You can read about anything, from the tragic - to the truly miraculous here.
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| January 3, 2013 |
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Some people will recognize Tom Short from the series Jonathan Williams did late last summer entitled: “5 Crucial Questions” which is based on Tom’s book 5 Crucial Questions for Christianity. Over the years he has learned God has gifted him for college campus ministry. He travels to scores of different campuses around the country preaching and teaching the word of God, personally adopting Jesus’ ...
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| December 27, 2012 |
This series of articles help Christians to understand the particular issues facing foreign missionaries who have returned home, to relate to them wisely, and to love them effectively.
The face of foreign missions has changed. Missionaries used to insist that a westernized style of ministry be adopted by their converts. They no longer do. They used to continue on in the work of ministry while converts ...
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| December 19, 2012 |
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In 1973 Jack received Christ while in his freshman year at Ohio State University. Two years later his high school sweetheart, Joan, who was instrumental in his coming to the Lord became his bride.
A year later while attending a Christmas-week conference in Madison, Wisconsin Jack and Joan heard a speaker challenge the conferees with the Commission which the risen Christ gave His disciples, “Go and ...
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| December 13, 2012 |
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Tonight at 8:00pm CST, Serve India Ministries will be sharing a live video update from the President of Serve India Ministries, Ebenezer Samuel. Follow this link and you can login as a guest.
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| December 10, 2012 |
According to Wycliffe there are now 2,075 Scripture translation projects in progress and only 1,967 languages still in need of translation. "These statistics are very important in showing progress toward our goal of seeing a Bible translation in progress in every language community needing it by 2025," said Bob Creson, president of Wycliffe USA. It proves not just to the Wycliffe workers, but also those who follow Wycliffe, ...
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| November 29, 2012 |
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History was in the making as Julie Martin watched her husband Adam baptise 22 people from the Akolet village. These were the first ever to be baptized from the Akolet people and it was an amazing and encouraging sight. Get the first hand eye witness account from Julie Martin herself here.
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| November 26, 2012 |
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Have you heard of Rice Bowls? Rice Bowls is all about feeding orphans. Showing Christ’s love with this fun and easy way of raising money for food, and the little ones can be involved too! You simply order the bowls (they’re free!) and hand them out to people in community groups or the youth group with an end date of bringing back the collections. Fill the little bowls and bring them back to crack open and ...
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| November 19, 2012 |
In 1962 Don and Carol Richardson arrived in West Papua, Indonesia with their 7-month old son, Steven. They were heading toward the cannibalistic Sawi tribe and they didn't realize that arriving with an infant was a sign of peace. Steven, and later his 3 siblings, were able to grow up among the Sawi, learning the language and embracing the culture.
Fast forward 50 years and Don and his 3 sons get the chance to return ...
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| November 15, 2012 |
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Pastor Thangaraj has worked among the unreached villages in South India for forty years. Most of this time was by himself, praying to God for guidance and understanding, and the right group of people to help him fulfill the vision he had for India. Pastor Thangaraj says:
"Forty years ago, the Lord gave me a vision. This vision was to see churches planted in the 720 unreached villages of my district in my lifetime. ...
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| November 9, 2012 |
Every month for the past year, at least one church has been attacked in Nigeria and Christians have been wounded or killed by the Muslim terrorists. Globally, more than 100 million Christians are being persecuted, and these numbers are rising. The most powerful way we as Christians can show support for the millions of persecuted Christians is through prayer.
This Sunday, November 11th, people all over the world will ...
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| November 5, 2012 |
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Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church (EKHC) is a prominent evangelical denomination in Ethiopia. Partnered with SIM ministries, EKHC has suffered loss, persecution, and temptation. God has blessed the Church’s steadfastness. Currently EKHE has 6.7 million members and 7,774 local churches across the nation. It is ethnically and socioeconomically diverse with members from both rural and urban areas. They have an organizational ...
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| November 5, 2012 |
During the first weekend of October, over 10,000 young people met in the desert 60 miles north of Cairo to sing, pray and worship God. Following the youth gathering was an even bigger event at the same location -- a Christian rally which involved 45,000 people. People of all ages were brought in on hundreds of buses to the conference grounds, which also hosted artistic and sporting events.
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| November 1, 2012 |
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Ashfaq's Daughter Rachel holding a sign that reads "Lord protect America from Hurricane Sandy. Rachel Ashfaq Pakistan"
Ashfaq Fateh, a Pakistani Christian leader who has been working to promote peace and human rights especially for the Christians in his country sent a message saying they were praying for the victims of hurricane Sandy. In their area they have been dealing with flooding for the last three years ...
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| November 1, 2012 |
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Serve India Ministries is an exciting, evangical outreach to the subcontinent that will plant 20,000 Indian pastors in 100,000 villages by 2020.
Their vision is to reach out to the thousands of unreached villages in India, and present the hope of the Gospel. They train pastors and encourage strategic prayer for those being equipped for the job. India is the second most populus country in the world with more than one ...
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