Our responsibility to people with disabilities
If you are a church member and you think of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs), maybe you think of curses, demons, healing, saliva, or noises. My challenge today is that we as the Church train ourselves instead to think of Jesus’s words in John 9 ...
Read MoreSports chaplaincy: bridging the sports missionary gap
Sports Chaplaincy is the provision of spiritual care to believers and non-believers in the sports world. By integrating faith with sports, sports chaplaincy can bridge missionary gaps on the African continent. The Church has done lit...
Read MorePrayer as access for women in sports ministry
At the end of practice, fellow female football players gathered around me. I had sensed God call me to ask, “Would anyone like prayer?” It was a simple invitation. Many of these ladies were high school dropouts struggling in pove...
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DEFESA DO EVANGELHO
É um ministério cristão online que tem como objectivo
a difusão do Santo Evangelho de Deus. O blog tem
muitas mensagens de encorajamento e edificação.
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Financial integrity and accountability in missions
At a training for all our project managers in SIM Burkina Faso, we found Paul’s advice about managing and distributing raised funds very valuable. The churches in Jerusalem were in need because of a serious famine. Over time, Paul...
Read MoreFunding ideas
Tim Welch’s book, New Funding Models for Global Mission, Learning From the Majority World, shares creative ways to fund missions....
Read MoreA letter to the African Church
If missions is God’s heartbeat, then his Church’s budget must reflect same in the allocation of funds. However, this is not the usual case, especially in Africa.
Doing missions cross-culturally has major cost components su...
Read MoreArts and spiritual attachment
Some people are sceptical about adopting local art forms for Christian purposes because they fear possession by or attacks from evil spirits. This is a legitimate concern.
Artistic forms or instruments are often divided into those for relig...
Read MoreBook review: Worship and Mission for the Global Church
Comparing a church tambourine to a golden bell dedicated to deity worship at a village temple raises questions about their respective holiness. If members of this village embrace Christ Jesus as Lord, do they discontinue the bell’s...
Read MoreLocal music, local language, local impact
Africa Inland Mission (AIM) missionary Rosina Ferdinand and her coworkers wanted some Gospel songs for the newly-translated scripture portions in the Sakalava language, so they asked Ladis, founder of the local band, Groupe Tsinfitak...
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