01-Cultivating Missions Awareness

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My family has an obsession—the Sacramento Kings basketball team. Despite fifteen years of marriage to a hardcore fan, I didn't cross the...

SENDING CHURCH ELEMENT 01: CULTIVATING MISSIONS AWARENESS The church becomes progressively aware of the lost world around them, both...

SENDING CHURCH ELEMENT 01: CULTIVATING MISSIONS AWARENESS The church becomes progressively aware of the lost world around them, both...

At the end of Paul’s first missionary journey, there is a wonderful, descriptive paragraph on what Paul and Barnabas did as they returned...

Sending Church Element 01: Cultivating Missions Awareness The church becomes progressively aware of the lost world around them, both...

Sending Church Element 01: Cultivating Missions Awareness The church becomes progressively aware of the lost world around them, both...

“How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how...

The Sunday gathering is a great time to create mission awareness in your church. Assuming you are already using some graphics or slides...

I started wearing glasses in the fourth grade. The optometrist whispered to my mom, “He’s nearsighted in one eye, farsighted in the...

In part one of this series, we highlighted the unhealthy and often counterproductive use of emotions and reason in cultivating awareness...

After serving in the church as a missions pastor for more than twenty years, I am often amused when I reflect on the variety of failures...

The global church offers Western Christians hope in what feels like hopeless times; however, because many Western Christians do not see...

Mission Vision Toolbox: Tools for Casting a Great Commission Vision in your Church I think most pastors have the desire for their church...

A little over a year ago, my family and I transitioned churches. This was not the first time either my wife or I had sought a new church...

A sending church involves the entire church by clearly and consistently teaching its missions convictions, vision, and strategy. This is...

I'm convinced that everyone should be friends with a missionary—or at least have some kind of contact with a sent one. Here's why.

A global missions display validates your efforts in global missions and shows your members what you are doing around the world.

Culture and worldview are complicated. Here are some questions that should guide your understanding.

Prayer is vital to the work of missionaries around the world. Here are some organizations that have developed prayer guides for the nations.

Pray for Afghanistan and Haiti. Pray for these countries. Pray for their citizens. Pray for the church, its leaders, and believers.