People group: the Deaf of North Africa
Across the world, there are up to 72 million Deaf people, making them one of the largest unreached people groups on the planet. According to DOOR International, a mission specializing in reaching the Deaf, fewer than two per cent know Jesu...
Read MoreMalawi’s broom – sending together
A lone broom strand can do little, but bound together with other strands, it becomes an effective and unbreakable broom.
Not so many years ago there were no Malawian missionaries, but all that began to change in 2010. Today, 147 chu...
Read MoreStorytelling resources
TRAININGS
According to orality specialists, the best and most current training can be found on the EMDC website: https://emdc.online. Available are seminars on Scripture Engagement (SE), Bible s...
Read MoreStorytelling – not just for kids
Have you enjoyed the stories in this issue so far? Everyone loves a good story; they are a great way to connect principles with real life. In fact, f...
Read MoreThe lost churches of Mundu are found
Little did Tom Desloges know the remarkable story his discovery was going to unravel when he found in his church’s archives maps, letters and some reports about the Mundu. The Mundu? How did this name get there? Sources cited this tribe ...
Read MoreEvery story counts in missions
Africa is known for its storytelling tradition. Huts in a village homestead were often arranged with one in the middle that was open on the sides. Children gathered there to hear stories from parents and elderly people. The villages also had offic...
Read MoreCalled: Nasiru Saidu – the cost of a voice
I lay on the floor, knees to my chest and my hands shielding my face, as my brother whipped me with a tree branch. I did not retaliate. Instead, I said, “I’m ready; you can kill me. I heard a voice, and I’m not going back...
Read MoreGreat stories stir great action
Several mission stories have impacted me personally, including one about a missionary who led 903 radical Muslim jihadists to Christ as he obeyed the Lord and went to serve where his colleague had been previously martyred. The other is Sam...
Read MorePeople Group: Bushmen of Angola
The Bushmen are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, with about 100,000 people scattered across Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho and Angola. In Angola, they are mainly concentrated in remote, inaccessible areas and ...
Read MoreThe Gospel and candy
Two young men I started evangelizing when they were eight years old are set to join me as missionaries in a few weeks. If I ever doubted that getting children involved in missions was profitable – and I never did – then this is the assurance I...
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