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The Church in a New Age of Mission

These are immensely exciting days to be engaged in spreading the Gospel as God calls people from all continents, cultures and backgrounds, and gifting to engage in making disciples of all nations.

How Mongolian Musicians Came to Christ

With only 20 worshippers at the time, the Mongolian church was eager to enlist helpers. A trained musician--even a non-Christian one--was too good to pass up, and Purevdorj began leading worshippers in singing praises to a God he did not yet know.

God Created Our Melodies

"We are Mongolians, so we have Mongolian melodies inside us. God created them, so He would like to hear them.”

Churches Embrace AIDS Vicitms

In many of the African countries that SIM serves, the church is reaching out to those affected by HIV and AIDS.

Growth from the Roots

The training of rural leaders who can help their church members grow strong in the faith and evangelize their unreached neighbors remains an urgent but often overlooked need in Ethiopia.

Out of the Ashes

He dabs at a tear and clears the roughness from his throat. They were his personal friends—some of those thousands who were shot or starved or raped.

Tambaya's Thrilling Story

Tambaya is the first Wodaabe Christian we know who has truly sought to put God's Word above Fulani traditions.

What Makes a Leader?

Join me for a tour of highly creative leadership laboratories in South America. We’ll discover that there’s no single answer to the question, “What makes a leader?”

Passing it On, and On, and On

The Tamajaq, and hundreds of other groups like them, remind us to equip churches to evangelize and disciple their children and youth, so that never again will the group need to be re-evangelized.

Passion for Christian General Education

Why is it that when children are the most receptive of all the ‘citizens’ in any nation, the strength of our missiological strategies to the nation is focused on older teens and adults--often with very hard-earned results?