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Remember Care: What a Missionary Needs from a Sending Church

From time to time we are able to chat with Skybridge members and other missionaries throughout the world and hear about their stories. This post is from a worker in Asia. I think this member has some good insights into the importance of the sending church and a topic I like to call “remember care”. [...]

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Revo Church

This post is a continuation of a series I’m doing on young churches that have built missions into the DNA of their church. Paul Davidson of Revo Church heads up his churches missional focus and I’m thankful he took the time to tell me more about what their church is doing to engage the nations [...]

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Mission Niche: Mission Coaching from Sixteen Fifteen

Over the last year or so I have gotten to know Matthew Ellison who is the founder and leader of Sixteen:Fifteen. I really like working together with him when we get a chance. I always come away challenged and encouraged at the same time. I think 1615 fulfills an unique mission niche. What does sixteen:fifteen [...]

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Planting the Gospel and Making Disciples

I was teaching a church planting class last month at Talbot Seminary in California. I was the guest lecturer for that day. Lots of fun. Great students. One of the thoughts that I had was this. “I was more concerned about the production of our new church than I was  about the reproduction of disciples.” [...]

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Who is your neighbor ?

At Sent Lab in Austin this past weekend one of the presenters had each table spend five minutes creating a list of people who they work with in their ministry setting. Here are some samples. Mexicans, Chinese, Indians, Peruvians, Guatemalans, Ecuadorians, Iranians, Algerians, Moroccans, Pakistanis, Iraqis, Egyptians, Jordanians, Nigerians, Ivorians, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Vietnamese, Koreans, Karen [...]

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Praying for success just down the street

As you may know we are in the states for a while on furlough. We are visiting different churches. I am looking at things through the lenses of what if I started another church some day in the states? What would I do differently? A couple of weeks ago we visited a church in Knoxville [...]

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Planting a Church

This week I will be with my good friend David Putman. David helps us out a lot at Upstream. He is beginning a new project called “Planting the Gospel”.  I look forward to learning more about that and helping him out as well. He asked me a question the other day that I am putting [...]

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