A good friend of mine, Aaron Butner, is leading his youth group to raise money during February for the Chile Baptist College!! He challenging the teens to give one dollar a day for a month to support church planting and pastor training in Chile.
Imagine, for the price of one Coke, these kids will invest in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Missionary thoughts'
Great Idea to get your teens involved in Missions!
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Chile Baptist College, Missionary thoughts, missions
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The Moravian View of Missionary Calling
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Missionary thoughts
taken from To Every Tribe Winter 2009
Do you know how the Moravians decided who got to go as missionaries when new opportunities arose? They cast lots for it . . . for it . . .not to avoid it! The attitude of the whole community was that they were all called to go [...]
January 30th, 1956
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Missionary thoughts
This is the date of the article written about the martyrdom of Jim Elliot, Ed McMully, Roger Youderian, Pete Fleming, and Nate Saint in Life magazine. If you’ve never seen the article, check it out!
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30 Indicators of Pride
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Missionary thoughts
In his booklet From Pride to Humility, Stuart Scott has compiled an insightful list of 30 biblical indicators as to whether pride is resident in our hearts. Read these slowly and prayerfully.
1. Complaining against or passing judgment on God (Numbers 14:1-4, 9, 11; Romans 9:20)
2. A lack of gratitude (2 Chronicles 32:25)
3. Anger (Proverbs 28:25; Matthew [...]
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The Different Levels of Church Leadership
January 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Missionary thoughts
This came from my friend Keith Shumaker’s blog. He is a church planter in Burkina Faso. Take the time to read this insightful article.
I wanted to share with you something that I developed on the different levels in a church. I guess the only bad one would be the first one.
1. The First Level [...]
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You’re not the center of the universe!
January 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Camp, Missionary thoughts
You’ve got to see this video! It shows us how great our God is and how insignificant we are!
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Insane Missions
January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Missionary thoughts, missions
This video was used this week at the Our Generation Summit ‘10. I hope if you did not attend, you’ll go to the Our Generation Leadership Camp in June! Leave a commit if you want more info about the Our Generation events.
Message for the Summit ‘10 from Jason Holt on Vimeo.
A 19 year old’s resolutions
December 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments · Missionary thoughts
In the 18th century the young, brilliant Jonathan Edwards, over the course of a year, wrote a list of 70 resolutions. This list reveals that he was concerned with more than just loosing wait or reading the Bible through in a year! Take the time to read though this list and think about your New [...]
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Bring on the next decade!!
December 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Family news, History of our church, Missionary thoughts
Ten years ago I was on Christmas break from my freshman year at Crown College! I don’t know how to start to explain how awesome the last ten years have been for me!! Here are a few of the highlights of this decade:
- 2000 I spent 6 months in Peru that completely changed forever my [...]
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Christmas in Chile
December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Family news, Missionary thoughts, missions
Sometimes people wonder what it’s like to spend Christmas on the mission field… Well, we started decorating the house and Christmas tree shortly after Thanksgiving. We’ve been listening to Christmas classics for weeks now. And the kids are very eager to open up their presents! Most things are just like they would be in the [...]
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