The Global Thread Through Scripture

via The Traveling Team

Aspects of Christ’s global cause can be found in every book of the Bible. Read straight through the passages listed here in one sitting. Watch how this grand theme weaves its way from Genesis to Revelation. Watch how the theme comes through, however, in a way . . . → Read More: The Global Thread Through Scripture

What in the World is God Doing?

by Bill Stearns via The Traveling Team

A GLOBAL GLIMPSE OF GOD’S HARVEST TODAY

If there’s anything we’ve learned from the past few years of globe-watching, it’s that the near future holds anything but the expected. Our era on this planet will not be "business as usual" politically, economically, . . . → Read More: What in the World is God Doing?

Apart From Prayer We Can Do Nothing

by David Smithers via The Traveling Team

The Law of Asking and Receiving

Did you know that the Kingdom of God will not come apart from PRAYER? The unreached will never hear the sweet name of Jesus without the labor of someone’s Spirit-led prayers. Regardless of how things may . . . → Read More: Apart From Prayer We Can Do Nothing

Global Connections: Exploring What’s Next

Published on 1/10/2011

by Eric Swanson

“We need a plan,” a pastor friend recently confided to me. “We’re hiring a missions consultant to help us think through what to do with the fifty missionaries our church supports. We’re all over the map and we really need to focus on a few places where our church can rally around. I used to think that our missions program was successful because we had so many missionaries connected to so many places. Now I see this as our biggest liability. We have no focus. When the chair of our Missions Committee moved away, I stepped into the role. Boy, were my eyes opened. Our default strategy is simply to do whatever we did last year, maybe increase a bit more… that’s probably the same thing we’ve been doing since our church started. We’ve had missions on auto pilot. But the world has changed and we need to figure out how to respond to those changes.” Continue reading Global Connections: Exploring What’s Next

Local Church: Friend, Foe, or Failure in the Great Commission

by Paul Borthwick via The Traveling Team

Dick wants to go into cross-cultural ministry, to go to a Muslim country in North Africa in a tentmaking capacity. We were catching up on the events of the past few months since he graduated from college.

In the . . . → Read More: Missions in the Local Church

Students in Missions
by Kevin Little via The Traveling Team

"The evangelization of the world in this generation"

This bold and zealous watchword characterized and motivated the Student Volunteer Movement, the most potent student mobilizers in all of history. From its outset the SVM called students to commit their lives, first, to the person and lordship of Christ, then, . . . → Read More: Students in Missions

Most Commonly Heard Excuses Not to be a Missionary
by Todd Ahrend via The Traveling Team

"But I don’t feel called?"

This is one of the most prevailing excuses around today. The infamous… "God hasn’t called me overseas!" So how are we to respond to this excuse? First, if you do a word study on the word "called" you . . . → Read More: Most Commonly Heard Excuses Not to be a Missionary

A Missionary Call
by Robert E. Speer via The Traveling Team

What constitutes a missionary call? It is a good sign that men ask this question. First, because it suggests that they think of the missionary enterprise as singularly related to the will of God. Second, because it indicates that they believe their lives are owned by a . . . → Read More: A Missionary Call