Missions

5 March by Todd Benkert

Lord, Move Us!

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It was our second day in Asia. The night before, I had experienced my first “English Corner” – an opportunity to meet students, speak to them in English, and share with them my culture, my experiences, and most of all, my faith in Christ. In our initial English corner, I was the first one Ellen [...]

16 February by Josh Collins

Jedi Council: Advice for Church Funding Requests

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After recently taking my 9 year-old cousin to see Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 3D for his birthday, I’ve decided to pretend that our SBC Voices comment club is our own version of the Jedi Council and to do a few posts asking for wise, sage, and Yoda-like counsel. To quote Yoda himself, “Up to you [...]

14 February by Josh Collins

Surprising Global Opportunities

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In a town across the waters live members of one of the world’s largest unreached people groups. In the past 20 years, their population in this city has grown from about 8,000 to around 60,000. While their home country’s political situation is tumultuous, in this new city there is stability and religious/political freedom, including the [...]

9 February by Mike Bergman

Reflections on my first journey out of the states, and the return home…

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It only took 31 ½ years to make my first journey out of the country and my first missions trip outside of the boarders of these United States.  I know many here have made trips before, and some even presently live in other countries as they serve the Lord.  But the personal newness of the [...]

27 January by Jeremy Parks

Electric Fences and Missionary Kids: A Study in Situational Judgment

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Stacy and I have three children.  This story is about two of them, Preston (age 13) and Zach (age 10).  Our kids are what many people call MKs, missionary kids.  Preston has lived just about 3 years in the US in his life, while Zach only has about 2 years in the US.  The rest [...]

2 January by Jeremy Parks

5 Questions with….an IMBer in Contemplation of Past and Future

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Hey folks, it’s time for a new installment of our award-winning “5 Questions with…” series.  We’ve been taking a brief hiatus, one that was not foreknown but was indeed predestined by my fall workload. Today’s subject is Fuzzy Goldenblister, an IMB worker for somewhere between 10 and 15 years.  He’s roguishly handsome, erudite, and cooks [...]

16 December by Micah Fries

Do Not Give to the Cooperative Program! (Micah Fries)

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Do not, under any circumstances, give your money to the Cooperative Program (CP). Seriously. I mean it. To many, I guess, this might seem odd since, Frederick Boulevard, the church I pastor gives 8% of our undesignated receipts through the Cooperative Program. Ahhh, but there is the difference. Giving TO the CP, I think, is something entirely different thing than [...]

3 November by Anthony Russo

Don’t Tell Amy Carmichael

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This post first appeared on my blog ThrowAwayEverything but I thought you might enjoy it also. -AR Yesterday the British paper The Daily Mail published a story about a California doctor who announced he has a LASIK-like laser eye machine that can be used to permanently turn brown eyes blue. There are many people in [...]

31 October by David Rogers

Mormons, Missionary Strategy, and American Politics

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The place was Badajoz, Spain, the time about 15 years ago. I was at that time missionary-pastor of the local Baptist church, back when there was still a place for that type of assignment within IMB strategy. We were hosting a few volunteer workers from the States, and that night they wanted to eat hamburgers, [...]

17 October by Jeremy Parks

Comfort As Evangelism?

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Juana hangs out in Plaza Bolivar, in front of the birthplace of South America’s liberator.  Caracas is not an extremely picturesque city as compared to, say, Prague, nor is it filled with centuries of cathedrals and places of historical note.  The city’s greatest claim to history is Simon Bolivar’s house, or at least the one [...]

14 October by Jeremy Parks

How Sensitive Are Our Souls?

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I wrote this back in early June while we were still in Ecuador.  Enjoy. Last week Zachary missed his first school days of the year.  Coughing, hacking, dizziness, fever; he tolerated it all quite well, for a 10-year old. As usually happens when he is home without his siblings, Zach wanted to watch a movie [...]

10 October by Anthony Russo

NAMB Missionary Maligned at Boise State University

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This past week one of our own made the headlines, but not for what you might think.  The student voice of Boise State University, The Arbiter, posted an article on its website entitled “Boise State is No Place for Hate” about Shawn Holes, aka “Shawn the Baptist”, and his recent evangelistic visit to the campus.  [...]