Across the Street, Across the Sea
Faith CRC's experience in local and global missions.
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Faith CRC's experience in local and global missions.
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.
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!
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.
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.
This article gives a thumbnail sketch of the state of global mission and provides links to other resources that will enable you to dig deeper into those areas that are most interesting to you.
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.
Could this have been avoided? Could the committee or church council have made different choices, leading to a different result?
If you are a first-time member of the group in your congregation that is responsible for global mission, you are trying to start such a group, or you are simply looking for ways to revitalize the global outreach of your church, this article is for you.
Whether you’re a carpenter or cattle rancher, pastor or plumber, bookkeeper or baker, typist or teacher…or just have a passion for missions, there’s a place for you in God’s mission.
Your life is part of a bigger story and we all have a role to play in the building up of God’s Kingdom. The CRCNA has opportunities for you, providing you with a place to serve and to be part of various transformational ministries.
Here is a summary of an in depth research paper written by Roland Hoksbergen about how North-South NGO partnerships contribute to development.
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.)
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.
In this webinar you'll discover ways to mobilize your church to pray for both local and global missions.
Back to God Ministries International is the media ministry of the Christian Reformed Church. It operates in ten of the most widely spoken languages of the world, covering a large percentage of the world's people.
World Renew, formerly known as CRWRC, is the relief and development arm of the Christian Reformed Church. Check out the website below!
Partners Worldwide grew out of World Renew to become a free-standing organization which connects Christian businesspeople in North America with counterparts in the developing world.
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.
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.
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.
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?