Sometimes, if you stop long enough, you look around and realize that nothing is new under the sun and that really, my generation is just telling the same story our grandparents have been telling us ever since we can remember. Sometimes, if you are quiet enough, you realize that your words are not really your…
Originally posted on May 2015 lausanne.org By: David Ro, Director of the J Christy Wilson Center for World Missions at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and as International Deputy Director for the Lausanne Movement in East Asia. Several prominent Chinese leaders from the unregistered churches have been convening in Seoul with global and Korean evangelical leaders to discuss…
Planting Broadly for a More Plentiful Harvest: God Raising Up Latino Hands for His Glory “So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to…
“I had no idea the Bible was like this.” This was Paul’s response after reading through one of the “I Am” statements in the Gospel of John. “I thought it was only about people who believed, but many of the people are just like me, they don’t believe Jesus. It seems that Jesus is offering…
This is a story very similar to the Biblical ‘Cornelius’ story in Acts 10, in which God prepares both Cornelius and Peter for a meeting through dreams and visions. While half of our Winter Missions Intensive team was finishing up the building of Papo’s house high up in the mountains, the rest of the team ministered to…
It’s what we pray for and work toward in establishing indigenous churches – that those churches will catch the vision and heart to reach out and establish more churches. This is happening in the arid and primitive northwestern part of Kenya among the Turkana peoples. In 1996 UWM established a pioneer church planting ministry with…
A couple of my friends invited me to help lead worship at a retreat that they were organizing. The main purpose of the retreat was to strengthen and encourage marriages, but also to let the attendees experience spirit-led worship. This was the first time I’ve done a whole retreat with all the music in the local language. Talk about…
We serve in a transition home working with girls who have been rescued from sex trafficking. One of these girls “D” had escaped from being trafficked when she was young and was in the process of reporting her perpetrator with the Mexican government. She gave birth to her baby during her time with us and…
For the past three years, we’ve been working towards forming a local (in-Sicily) partnership with another church or group. In January of this year, a relationship that we’d been nurturing began to take shape, and we agreed that we wanted to do something together this year. We began meeting 2 or 3 times a week…
For several weeks, Amet has been in regular contact with a faithful listener of our Radio Broadcasts. This man is named Mbaye BÂ, and is the Chief of a village about 150km outside of the region of Dakar where our broadcasts are transmitted regularly. He is a father of a family and has grandchildren as…