“That’s it. It’s time to move on.” As I took one last look around the now empty apartment it hit me. This was it. We weren’t coming back again. After more than 5 years in Lebanon, it was time to go back to the UK and restart our lives all over again.”
Packing up your life, saying goodbye and moving abroad to join a church plant is exciting and a big faith adventure, but it can also be tiring, hard work and a sacrifice.
In caring for your workers, you are helping them to stay overseas for longer.
Join an online Prayer4Movement to pray for several locations around the world this Ramadan.
Passivity or reactivity is under appreciated in Western leadership manuals. What is celebrated is initiative, forward movement, aggression. The Western leader thinks about his own strategy and vision, throws pieces forward. He does not adequately consider the contours of the culture, the whole board of history and geography and the entrenched dispositions of the status quo into which he or she is stepping.
What We Are Learning About Best Practice For Sending Churches. Sending Churches Forum February 2024 Andy McCullough shares at the Sending Churches Forum on ‘A Scattered Influence.’ What can we
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Last year, The Oak Church in Leeds hosted a ‘Nowruz’ party for displaced Farsi speaking people in their local community
The Unreached Network is pleased to commend these excellent upcoming training events hosted by our friends at the Christian Medical Fellowship. Whether you are a healthcare worker working cross culturally,
As sending churches, we invest time, prayer, finance and care in preparing and supporting people who are going on overseas mission, it is equally important that we give the same level of care and support to those who are returning.
You’re shocked to see a white-skinned western arm outstretched, offering a handshake and even more taken aback that in the middle of this tense situation, the hand is yours!
And if we Christians are Christ’s ambassadors, we must play our part in bridging the gap and reconciling the broken relationships among people, between us and God, people and creations, and our own brokenness.
Are you already a sending church with people overseas? Would you like to become a sending church? What is best practice in direct sending across the Newfrontiers family? What are
“We all tried to convince him that there must be another way but he insisted so I found myself, a day after moving to Lebanon, holding on to this man’s belt, praying that he wouldn’t fall to his death as he tried to break into our apartment! “
Why do you think sectarianism/racism, with its fear and superiority, is so appealing to people?
Have you experienced people viewing you in a stereotypical way? How do you feel about this?
Singles have lots to teach the wider church about resilience, faithfulness and obedience. Take time to listen to them, be interested in their experiences and learn from them.
Rather than giving up on the seed that doesn’t bare fruit or trying to cut down the thistles, I wonder if it’s possible to invite people to grow and rise above the thistles, to set their eyes on life eternal, to turn their eyes toward Jesus and find hope there learning as adults to be children of God who takes care of us.
Serbia faced tragic loss this year, with two mass shootings, the first of which was by a 13-year-old boy in his school. People have been genuinely traumatized. The country has
Could Africa become the global Christian centre of gravity for the latter half of this century and the source of Christian leaders, theologians, and missionaries?
The right question is: Are you a witness? The answer is Yes: either a good one: learning to be a fisher of men; or a silent one, who keeps the truth to themselves, and allows people to continue to be harassed by the evil one, or easy prey for false ideas.
t’s not my first community project, and it won’t be my last, but for some reason I’m so excited about this one.
On the coast of North Africa, lies an area of occupied territory about the size of the UK, distinct and proud in its dress, language and traditions. Rarely reaching the news, this conservative, Sunni Islamic land sits at the edge of the Sahara; a sprinkling of towns and villages dotting across open miles of rock and sand.
In my heart, I knew exactly what God was spelling out to me through this situation – It is possible to be told but not hear, to look but not see. So often, I am blind and deaf to what God is doing. Oh God, open our eyes, open our ears.
If I’m honest, this UN23 Conference on the theme of ‘The Peace-building Imperative’ totally undid me. By the end of it I felt not only deeply inspired and challenged, but