25 April, 2024

Missions

The Power of an Emphatic Yes

The Power of an Emphatic Yes

Reading Time: 6 minutes

In 1996, Joe Putting and his elders at Tomoka Christian Church (Ormond Beach, Fla.) asked a simple question: “What would saying an emphatic yes to the Great Commission look like?” They came out of that season of prayer and reflection with an almost obsessive desire to profoundly impact all the nations of the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. . . .

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Foreign Christian Missionary Society (1887)

THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Foreign Christian Missionary Society (1887)

Reading Time: 7 minutes

“Our missionaries ought not to be pinched for money,” Bayard Craig said during his message at a gathering of the Foreign Christian Missionary Society in 1887. “We can not compensate them for loss of friends, or possibly of health, but we can at least see that they are comfortable and that they have facilities for their work.”

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My Heart for Ukraine

My Heart for Ukraine

Reading Time: 4 minutes

“I lived in Ukraine for five years,” Laura McKillip Wood writes. “I made some of the best friends of my life there, both American and Ukrainian. I met and married my husband, Andrew, another missionary there. . . . Needless to say, I have watched the events unfolding in Ukraine with anxious interest.”

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