We have a ministry in an urban poor area of Mexico City, and we recently received the following report. Community transformation happens when people get together for a common purpose, when it is their vision, and importantly, if they can see a spiritual value to what they are doing. Hope is a strong motivator.
That [...]
We have just released a brand new book in time for this year’s North American Christian Convention at which missionary Mary Kamau will be featured. Mary is the Director of the Hope Partnership project in Nairobi, Kenya. The Birth of Hope is a coffee-table book with great photographs and a compelling fictional account of a boy [...]
Our long time family friend, Sarah Sykes, is graduating from the School of Leadership and Development, Eastern University. Her MBA is in International Economic Development. Sarah has helped Christian Missionary Fellowship by producing the movie, One in a Million, and by serving as an Associate Board Member for the past two years. Sarah and Brian [...]
Environmental Missions Consultation – Ed of Care of Creation and Lowell of Restoring Eden would like to invite you to spend five days with them in Manhattan KS this summer discussing the concept of Environmental Missions. Among the questions to be considered are: What is it? What are appropriate theological and biblical foundations? How can [...]
The folks at Eastside Christian Church really know how to communicate! This past week-end was the second Sunday in their “Beyond Series,” moving the church from beyond where it is now to where God really wants it to be. “Beyond works” — the Gospel consists of not only doing good deeds but also sharing the [...]
For four Sundays in April and May, the Eastside Christian Church in Fullerton, California will be having a sermon series relating to ministry “Beyond the Walls.” A part of that emphasis will be on child sponsorship for Nairobi, Kenya. The following five minute video gives an overview of the project and contains some very, very compelling images. [...]
For years people have sat in front of computers and made lists of “unreached people groups.” This has been a major mission paradigm, particularly among Evangelicals, since the Lausanne Conference in 1974. As can be expected, of the compiling of lists there is no end. The latest iteration makes the claim that a group of [...]
Suppose you were invited into a room with the leaders of six different mission agencies, and you were given an opportunity to ask any of them any question you would like. What would you ask? Seriously, post your question by clicking on the comments link below.
Last week I was in a meeting with the [...]
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