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Touch Your World Through Prayer: Praying for God's Global Mission
In this webinar you'll discover ways to mobilize your church to pray for both local and global missions.
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Here you'll find resources posted by individuals, churches, and ministries. Add comments, give a 'thumbs up', or post your own. Can't find something? Use the chat box to let us know.
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May 13, 2011
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Church2Church
This article describes the movement of North American churches seeking relationships with Majority World churches. Instead of bopping in for a quick fix or throwing money at problems, it describes early attempts at truly connecting.
January 4, 2011
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Prayer Missions International
Prayer Missions International grew out of the ministry of a pastor who was passionate about prayer and about missions. As you read this article from another pastor who participated in a recent trip, I hope you will be encouraged to check out www.prayermissions.org and consider participating in an upcoming trip.
August 27, 2010
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The End of Missions
Could this have been avoided? Could the committee or church council have made different choices, leading to a different result?
August 17, 2010
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How Missionaries Lost Their Chariots of Fire
This article by Brad A. Greenberg also addresses the Word and Deed relation. He observed the swing of the pendulum toward Deed only ministry and offers his thoughts. Interestingly, this appeared in the Wall Street Journal .
August 17, 2010
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Have Missions Become Too "Deeds" Centric?
This article addresses the question of how to relate Word and Deed in living out the Mission of God. It responds to the Greenberg piece just added to the Global Mission Network. Let's talk about it.
August 12, 2010
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Eight Trends That Will Shape the Future of Global Missions
During 2009, I personally interviewed fifty leaders of large churches that were effectively engaged in global missions. These are eight trends that I believe will shape the future of missions.
August 6, 2010
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The Subtle Shift in the Posture of the Missional Church
As we begin to think of the heart and scope of the Gospel and embracing a missional understanding of the church, the ramifications for the local church will be subtle but significant.
July 23, 2010
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Expanding the Definition of Resources
What are your resources and what are the resources of those with whom you wish to partner? Use these questions to help recognize the varied diversity of resources which can be found in a person, a church, a group or a community.
July 19, 2010
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Global Partnership (Video)
Andy Crouch, executive producer for the Global Conversation video series, sat down with two men whose churches have nurtured twenty years of partnership in mission, Chapel Hill Bible Church in the United States and the Nairobi Chapel church network in Kenya.
July 19, 2010
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Can a Rich Expatriate Missionary Disciple a Poor Muslim Believer?
This paper comes out of personal experience and observation of missionaries of many nationalities working with West Africans who are Muslim Background Believers, in several Sahelian, francophone, predominantly Muslim countries (Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Guinea.)
July 19, 2010
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If We Send Them, They Will Grow—Maybe
How do we increase the odds that STM will make a long-term difference in the lives of our kids long after the suitcases are unpacked and the photo albums are buried in bedroom closets?
July 19, 2010
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Short Term Missions: Paratrooper Incursion or 'Zaccheus Encounter'?
An article by Hunter Farrell from a special issue of the Journal of Latin American Theology : Christian Reflections from the Latino South on short-term missions in Latin America.
July 19, 2010
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The Cost of Short Term Missions
Are we fooling ourselves by pretending these trips help people when they are really just an excuse to see a foreign country? If our good works are not doing good, why do them?
July 16, 2010
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Toward Authentic Partnership: How North-South NGO Partnerships Contribute to Development
Here is a summary of an in depth research paper written by Roland Hoksbergen about how North-South NGO partnerships contribute to development.
July 16, 2010
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The Essential Facilitator Bridge
This article explains the crucial roles a facilitator plays in successful global partnership.
July 16, 2010
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To Catch the Wind: A New Metaphor for Cross-Cultural Mission Partnerships
This article addresses why Western high-control leadership styles may not fit cross-cultural partnerships.
July 16, 2010
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Protocols for Partnership
General guidelines for international partnerships between PC(USA) congregations, presbyteries and synods and international churches and institutions.
July 16, 2010
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Partnership Essentials
This article from Catalyst Services shares the most essential elements of successful partnerships and most frequently seen partnership quagmires.
June 29, 2010
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A Scottish Perspective on the New World Communion of Reformed Churches Gathering
I came to Grand Rapids from Scotland to work as part of the co-opted staff with the news team here, to cover the unification of the two main ecumenical groups of Reformed churches throughout the world. And here's my story!
June 11, 2010
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Responding to God's Call Overseas
Is it best to respond immediately upon completing one's education or gain some experience (and lose some student debt) first?
June 11, 2010
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Global Missions in New Church Starts
Often new church starts think that international missions is great . . . but must wait until the church is up and running. This resource focuses on the concept of building an international component into the DNA of the church from its beginning.
May 24, 2010
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Local Ministry Clusters as Learning Organizations
Let's learn some of Peter Senge’s (an MIT professor) key ideas about learning organizations followed by a few ideas of how to deliver this within ministry clusters in the CRCNA.
May 6, 2010
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Witnessing Life in the Midst of Death
El Salvador is experiencing an average of thirteen homicides a day. These homicides are visible symptoms of a society and church deeply fractured along economic, political and religious lines. Yet it was not “death” but “life” that I will remember from my visit to El Salvador.
March 12, 2010
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Across the Street, Across the Sea
Faith CRC's experience in local and global missions.