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A Growing Greek Adventure
Jonathan and Sarah Crowhurst update us on the latest developments in Athens, Greece. Please join with as we partner with them in prayer and give practically where we can. ———-
Category: Mission
Unreached
The Unreached Network exists to inspire and strengthen cross cultural mission to Unreached Peoples across the global Newfrontiers family.
We do this by training, resourcing, inspiring and creating spaces for network, with individuals, churches and spheres as they take responsibility for sending.
Want to partner with us? Get in touch at www.unreached.network/contact-us
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Insights into Cross-Cultural Mission – Part 3
“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.”
Mission
The Joys and Setbacks of adventure
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.
Christian Living
Assessing Pastoral Care Needs
In caring for your workers, you are helping them to stay overseas for longer.
Mission
24/7 Prayer Goal for Ramadan 2024
Join an online Prayer4Movement to pray for several locations around the world this Ramadan.
Mission
passive cross-cultural leadership
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.
Events
A Scattered Influence
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
Mission
Field Partner International Survey Report
Interested in what Field Partners have to say about their members’ time on the field? Read the report or the infographic.
Events
Nowruz, a Persian Celebration in the UK
Last year, The Oak Church in Leeds hosted a ‘Nowruz’ party for displaced Farsi speaking people in their local community
Christian Medical Fellowship
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,
Events
Supporting our Returners
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.
Mission
Provision & Protection
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!
Internship
Internship Application
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.
Mission
Sending Churches Forum. 21st Feb 2024.
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
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Insights into Cross-Cultural Mission – Part 2
“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! “
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The meaning of the cross of Jesus for forming communities of believers in him in mixed cities
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?
Mission
“More useful to send a chair…” Single people on mission
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.
Christian Living
Discipleship in Turkey
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.
Mission
More than Politics
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
Mission
The Sahel: What Does the Future Hold?
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?
Events
The Joy of sharing your faith with Lex Loizides
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.
Mission
Talk (English) Library is now open!
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.
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The Groom is coming for His Bride!
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.
Justice
Water in the Wasteland: Update on the earthquake response
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.