Gunmen raided a retirement center in Yemen on March 4, killing 16, including four nuns from Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. Six unidentified gunmen stormed the facility to commit the atrocity. Pope Francis called the nuns “modern-day martyrs and victims of indifference.” Two nuns were Rwandans, one was Indian, and a fourth was Kenyan. A…
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” ~ Jim Elliot ~ Jim Elliot was a missionary in ecuador. He along with four other missionaries were martyred while trying to reach the aucas.
With an estimated 3 million people facing starvation in Malawi following floods and droughts, the world’s poorest nation now faces an additional challenge — cholera. Not since 2006, when an estimated 1,000 people died, has Malawi faced this level of cholera threat. “People living along the lakeshore areas seem to have forgotten the dangers of the…
“I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.” ~ John Keith Falconer ~ John Keith Falconer was an english evangelist.
Targeting boys as young as 11 years old, both the Myanmar army and opposing rebels continue to recruit and even kidnap children for military conscription. Recent pressure from the United Nations and non-government organizations has resulted in the release of some children though recruiting continues. Recruiters target boys in rural and urban areas when the…
“Measures of personal evangelism by Christians indicate that 86% of all Buddhists, Hindu, and Muslims do not know a Christian.” ~Intl. Bulletin of Missionary Research Jan 2008 ~
“The Gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.” ~ Carl F.H. Henry ~ Carl F.H Henry was a preacher who was a professor of theology at Eastern Baptist university.
“People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa… It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.” ~ Dr. David Livingstone ~ Dr. David livingstone was a medical missionary who explored the interior of africa. he worked to bring the gospel to the natives….
“There is nothing wrong with charitable acts – but they are not to be confused with preaching the Gospel. Only the Gospel of Jesus Christ can save a soul from a life of sin and eternity in hell!” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Revolution In World Missions ~
“You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving.” ~ Amy Carmichael ~ Amy Carmichael was a missionary to india who opened up an orphanage for children on the streets or abused.
“Why doesn’t your God speak my language?” ~ Guatemalan Indian to Cameron Townsend, founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators ~
China’s President Xi Jinping has ramped up the persecution of Christian pastors and lay leaders while removing crosses and even destroying church buildings that the state had sanctioned. Pastor Joseph Gu Yuese from the Zhejiang province was leading a 10,000 member state-approved church when the government recently jailed him on embezzlement charges. The pastor had…
“Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions.” ~Leonard Ravenhill~ Leonard Ravenhill was an English Revival pastor. Many of his converts devoted themselves to evangelism and mission work.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ~ John 3:16 ~
“One of the most basic laws of creation is that every living thing reproduces after its own kind. If we are going to see a mass people movement to Christ, it will be done only through fielding many more thousands of national missionaries.” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Revolution in World Missions
“However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me – the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.” ~ Acts 20:24
The Zika outbreak that started in northeast Brazil is now in 30 countries, causing researchers to develop vaccines while trying to confirm the connection to microcephaly. Christian ministries like World Vision and Operation Blessing have mobilized with preventative strategies in high-risk communities while ministering to mothers whose children have birth defects. According to Operation Blessing,…
“Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but how much of God’s money will I keep for myself.” ~ John Wesley
When Category Five Cyclone Winston struck the Fiji island of Yacata on Saturday, Feb. 20, with 185 mile-per-hour winds, this South Pacific nation of about 100 islands suffered widespread death and destruction, particularly in its remote areas. Christian aid organizations like Church of the Nazarene and regional governments are scrambling to provide food, water and…
“Preach abroad. It is the cooping yourselves up in rooms that has dampened the work of God, which never was and never will be carried out to any purpose without going into the highways and hedges and compelling men and women to come in.” ~ Johnathan Edwards ~ Johnathan Edwards was a revival preacher during…
The egregious act of slavery, particularly for sexual exploitation, has grown at alarming rates globally. However, governments, non-government organizations and Christian ministries like the Dalit Freedom Network and Passion Conferences are now actively challenging the offenders and offering hope to victims. Everlyn Chumbow, in her contribution to CNN says this: Should you feel compassion? Yes….
“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.” ~ Hudson Taylor
As many as 31 people were killed and more than 180 injured as coordinated terrorist bombings rocked the Brussels airport and subway system during rush hour Tuesday morning in the Belgian capital according to Fox News. The attacks, which Belgian authorities said were suicide bombings, came four days after the main suspect in the November…
World Water Day and Your Mission Through our faith in action on World Water Day, many will come to know Him as they are provided with sanitary water, a precious gift that many around the world do not have access to. Throughout scripture, God’s people are commanded to take care of those who are downtrodden…
“Even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.” ~ William Carey ~ William Carrey is known as the Father…
Residents in India’s capital of Delhi have faced a massive water shortage since protesters in the state of Haryana sabotaged the Munak canal causing a breach the affected 10 million people. The resulting water shortage has sent officials scrambling to supply water to all segments of its society. Marginal communities have suffered the most. Water…
“People who don’t believe in missions have not read the New Testament. Right from the beginning Jesus said the field is the world. The early church took Him at His word and went East, West, North and South.” ~ J. Howard Edington ~
“We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.” ~ John R. Stott
“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.” ~ A. B. Simpson
“When God pours out His Spirit, be it through indigenous missions or in any other way, we need to be sensitive and follow. The mind-set that dares to say we will move with God only if He follows our bylaws, constitution or “the way we’ve always done it” is not just a mistake in strategy…
“Despite Christ’s command to evangelize, 66% of all humans from AD 30 to the present day have never even heard of His name.” ~ Intl. Bulletin of Missionary Research Jan 2008
“We do not adequately confess Christ as the God of all men if we seek to be his witnesses only among our neighbors. We must seek at the same time to confess him to the ends of the earth.” ~ Lesslie Newbigin ~ lesslie newbigin was a missionary in india.
“For me, passion means whatever a person is willing to suffer for… ‘Apostolic passion,’ therefore, is a deliberate, intentional choice to live for the worship of Jesus in the nations. It has to do with being committed to the point of death to spreading His glory. It’s the quality of those who are on fire…
More than 70% of all Christians now live in countries where they are experiencing persecution. ~ Barrett and Johnson, World Christian Trends ~
“There is no better way to measure the self-centeredness in the Church than the lip service that we give to the heart of God concerning those who are living in total darkness.” ~ Dr. James L. West ~
“Research indicates the Bahamas receives 1 short-term missionary yearly for every 15 residents.” ~ Washington Post, “Churches Retool Mission Trips”
“Of the 16,536 people groups by country, 6,829 are still considered unreached.” ~ Joshua Project ~
“Where there is no mission, there is no Church, and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith. …Mission, Gospel preaching, is the spreading out of the fire which Christ has thrown upon the earth. He who does not propagate this fire shows that he is not burning. He who burns propagates…
Charles Spurgeon ~ “Someone asked, will the heathen who have never heard the gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we – who have the gospel and fail to give it to those who have not – can be saved.”
“What are we here for, to have a good time with Christians or to save sinners?” ~ Malla Moe
The world’s deadliest terrorist group – Boko Haram – continues to rampage through areas in Nigeria, Cameroon and other West African nations. Despite Boko Haram’s ever-present threat of affliction and suffering, Christians are providing humanitarian aid, planting churches and even converting some former Boko Haram soldiers. Pray for the Body of Christ and Christian Aid,…
“Sympathy is no substitute for action.” ~ Dr. David Livingstone ~ Dr. David Livingstone was a medical missionary who explored the interior of Africa and devoted his life to reaching the people with the Gospel.
“God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name,…
“If ten men are carrying a log – nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end – and you want to help, which end will you lift on?” ~ William Borden, as he reflected on the numbers of Christian workers in the U.S. as compared to those among unreached people…
“Today, as each second of the clock ticks by, thousands of people in the Two-Thirds World die and go to hell. They slip into eternity before anyone can reach them with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What does it really take, then, to improve our use of time and reach our generation with the Gospel…
“What would happen to this world if more evangelical Christians were to realize that God blessed them with money in order to make them a blessing, not to pamper them?” ~ Ralph Winter ~ ralph winter was the founder of the u.s. world center.
“World missions is God’s therapy for the sin of selfishness within the local church.” ~ Clifford Clark ~
“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” ~ Matthew 24:14 ~
“At the current rate, over 160,000 believers will be martyred this year.” ~ Barrett and Johnson, World Christian Trends
“May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us, that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.” ~ Psalm 67:1-2 ~
