Missions teams from the perspective of the hosts by Peter Bunton There we were. Northeastern Thailand, near the border with Laos. Our short-term mission team was working with a missionary to some of the unreached people of the area. There was no church in this village. It’s possible that no one had ever preached the [...]
Along with evangelism and discipleship, prayer is an essential element of the mandate God has given By Lynn Ironside “So often our prayers and other initiatives taken in blind obedience to the Spirit seem as pointless as shooting paper aeroplanes into the sky—but the eyes of faith know that it is no coincidence that that [...]
How can we reach the people from within their culture rather than reaching out from our own? By Hillary Vargas In a small Moldovan town, there is a church that I attended for a few months. The pastor’s wife was the worship director. The songs she chose were usually songs that I was familiar with, [...]
Everywhere we went the local people asked us to pray for them, especially for healing. By Dave Smith I was 18. I had just left everything I’d known and left my home to do a Discipleship Training School with the international organization Youth With A Mission. As part of the school we had a two-month-long [...]
By Peter Bunton What do you think of when you hear the term “missions”? Probably many of us think of someone traveling on a plane to another nation to serve the indigenous people. We probably also assume that those people speak a different language and may likely be of a different race to the missionaries [...]
In its simplicity, the Lord's Prayer contains some of the most challenging words we will find in our walk of faith. By Peter Bunton A mission team I was with a few years ago was praying around an inner-city neighborhood. I particularly remember the team praying in a park. The children’s play area was covered [...]
Jesus gave the Great Commission in five different forms By Peter Bunton In the church we often talk about the Great Commission. In doing so, we usually think of some of the final words of Jesus Christ to His disciples found in Matthew 28:18–20: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given [...]
Jesus said, "Wake up and look around!" By Peter Bunton “Missions” is a term the church uses frequently. We immediately start to think of remote places in the world and activities such as communicating the Christian gospel to those who have never heard, or educating children in remote villages. The reality is, however, that missions [...]
