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
Middle East
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.
Events
The Peacebuilding Imperative #UN23
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
Events
Last Session of UN23: The Peacebuilding Imperative
Everyone would say, I have nothing against the other, I have nothing in my heart against the other brother – but this is actually revealing a lack of love and appreciation for the other. We should have a lot of love and appreciation for the other in our heart.
Mission
Teacher Based Evangelism: An extract from The messenger, The Message and The Community
“We soon realized that Harry was one of the few people we knew who was successfully proclaiming the Gospel message to Muslims.”
Interviews
Looking for People of Peace
We hope that you will be encouraged by this recording of an Experience Life DMM (Disciple Making Movement) coaching session led by Jim Britts. We enjoyed hearing these stories, told
Mission
Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Miss the Unreached Conference Online This Year
The focus on peacebuilding/reconciliation is super important. Part of our mandate is to bring aspects of the wider missions conversation into the Newfrontiers family, and this is a key area
Bible
Jesus’ Life And Mission
The Mission of Jesus: A Journey of Incarceration, Relationships, Inefficiency, Cost, Humility, and Worth
Mission
Changed
This is the latest blog in the Called?! series. For previous posts see Persuaded, Sent, Prepared, Teamed, Sown But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry… And the LORD said, “Do you do
Mission
Sown
You are being buried, my friend. It’s a baptism. It’s cruciform. It’s heroic. It’s apostolic. It’s sacrificial. It hurts.
Middle East
Insights into Cross-Cultural Mission Part 1
“What are we doing?” I asked myself as I sat in the toilet onboard a British Airways flight to the Middle East with tears rolling down my cheeks. “What on earth are we doing?”
Mission
Dear Church – Extended Collaboration
Instead of ‘welcome home’ we prefer ‘welcome back’ because we don’t always know what you mean when you talk about ‘home’ and might not be feeling the relief and comfort that you are expecting us to. Instead of relief we could be missing, friends our routine and time to study.
Family
Dear Church- A letter from a returning family
Tips on caring for returners as they come back for visits or long term.
Mission
Ten Signs of Healthy Sending in Your Church
We loved this guest post written by Bradley Bell in 2022. It was first published here on The Upstream Collective blog.We are grateful to be able to reproduce it here
Mission
Teamed
This is Number 4 in the Called?! series of posts. Persuaded Sent Prepared Ecc 4:9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. Ecc
Middle East
Discipling Salima
Salima and I have started reading the Bible together. We are currently reading the Creation story and she was incredibly moved by it.
Interviews
That night, I had a dream
I was standing in a courtroom and I was waiting to be judged.
The judge came into the room and He was beautiful. He sat next to me and gave me a piece of paper.
Mission
Tips for working with an interpreter
Take heart that our embodied message is powerful and beautiful, even if the verbal translation ends up being jerky sometimes!
Mission
Displacing Cultural Assumptions
After a long search for my missing keys, I finally found them. “Eureka!” I shouted, “I’ve found it!”
My Middle Eastern friend looked up, puzzled. “What did you just say?”
Bible
Prepared
This is part three in my Called?! series of blog posts. Click for parts one and two. Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was
Family
As Many As The Stars
Ian Geary writes a book review and draws on parallels from within his own life.
Mission
Sent
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they
Cross Cultural Safeguarding: Seminar Recording and Other Resources
Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you. (James 1:27 NLT)
Bible
Persuaded
So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to