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News — Voices lifted up around the country … Recycled cell phones connect kids to missions … Nonstop bad news distorts reality … Rankin challenges church to missions, promotes books
Resources — “Loving the Lost of the World Through Prayer 2006” … West Africa brochure
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of missions — Missions by the Book: A soul thirsting for God … Quotable: Whose obligation? … Illustration: Lasting fruit in West Africa
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| After viewing the “Lift Up Your Voice … a Call to Prayer” simulcast, Pastor Wayne Marshall of Longview Heights Baptist Church in Olive Branch, Miss., leads his congregation in a prayer of commitment for international missions. (Photo by Kristen Nicole Sayres) |
News
Voices lifted up around the country
Hundreds of churches joined together in a community of prayer for international missions during a nationwide simulcast.
Read more.
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| Eleven-year-old Dason Maloney presents an oversized check for missions to pastor Bryant Barnes during an early morning Sunday service at Calvary Baptist Church in Tupelo, Miss.) |
Recycled cell phones connect kids to missions
How do you get kids involved in missions? The answer came to Heywood Washburn in an unusual place – some 35,000 feet above the Earth’s surface.
Find out what he saw.
Report what your church has given to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®.
Nonstop bad news distorts reality
Disasters, war and violence dominated the news last year. But the accumulation of bad news, relentlessly covered by news media, tends to distort our perception of the world. Is there any good news to be found?
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| IMB President Jerry Rankin (right) signs a copy of a recent book for Barry Whitehead (left) at Rankin’s home church, Grove Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. (Photo by Scott Lashinsky) |
Rankin challenges church to missions, promotes books
Now is the time to seize mission opportunities around the world, said IMB President Jerry Rankin, promoting two recent books at his home church.
Read more.
Order “Lives Given, Not Taken.”
Order “Empowering Kingdom Growth.”
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Resources
“Loving the Lost of the World Through Prayer 2006”
Small enough to slip into your pocket, this 30-day-prayer guide remains popular among those who wish to pray daily for the world’s lost. This year’s guide focuses on 30 people groups or cities that need your prayers.
FREE.
Order now.
West Africa brochure
Three-fourths of the earth’s surface is water, but the world is very thirsty. In West Africa thirst comes in many forms. This brochure is a great take-away to keep participants praying after a program introducing them to the needs of West Africa.
FREE.
Order now.
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Speaking of missions
Missions by the Book: A soul thirsting for God
“O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water” – Psalm 63:1 (NIV).
Quotable: Whose obligation?
“No one is obligated to pay you to do what you’re passionate about, what God has put in your heart and imagination. But you are obligated to do that thing.” – Erwin McManus, pastor, Mosaic, in a ministry leadership course at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
Has God given you a passion for reaching the unreached?
Illustration: Lasting fruit in West Africa
“It was a hot, muggy afternoon when my wife and I rode out to the West African village where we had first started ‘storying’ the Bible to a group of Muslims. It had been over 10 years since we had visited. We said little as we rode, each with thoughts such as, ‘Did our effort so many years ago bear lasting fruit?’ We parked behind the mosque near the small open market and people turned to watch us as we climbed out of the truck. In a few moments, a woman remembered us and happily led us to the chief. We found our old friend, M.*, lying on a straw mat in his mud hut. It was hot. He had a high malarial fever and was gasping for breath. He motioned for me to sit beside him as he rose with difficulty to a sitting position and kissed me on the cheek. He collapsed again on his mat. We spoke only a few moments and then he rose up on one elbow, lifted one index finger, and said, ‘There is only one way.’” – a worker in West Africa
*Name withheld for security reasons
Find more stories of God at work in West Africa.
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