April 21, 2010
Tools to Help You Use the Arts
Standard Publishing highlights creative resources for churches using drama, interactive worship, and classic art to support evangelism, Bible teaching, and discipleship.
Mission & Evangelism
Mission & Evangelism equips Christians and churches to share the gospel and make disciples locally and globally. Explore Bible-based articles on evangelism, outreach, disciple-making, missions strategy, church planting partnerships, and engaging your community with compassion and clarity. You’ll find practical guidance for building a missional culture, telling the story of Jesus well, and reaching people across cultures and generations. Whether you’re serving in your neighborhood, supporting missionaries, or leading a church on mission, these resources help you live sent and invite others to follow Christ.
April 8, 2010
Interview with Christopher LaPel
Christopher LaPel survived Cambodia’s killing fields, found Christ in a Thai refugee camp, and later helped train Cambodian Christians and plant churches throughout his native land.
March 24, 2010
Restoration Revolution: Goals to Challenge All of Us
Mark A. Taylor reflects on Restoration Revolution’s ambitious 10-year call to prayer, church planting, Scripture translation, missionary development, campus outreach, and business as mission.
February 28, 2010
Egyptians Churches Move Toward New Testament Principles
Churches in Egypt are moving toward New Testament practices through the patient teaching of Safaa Fahmi, including weekly Communion, baptism, local leadership, and renewed commitment amid opposition.
February 14, 2010
A List of Mission Agencies Serving in Haiti
A contact list of missionary agencies serving in Haiti, along with Christian church/church of Christ groups working to provide relief for earthquake victims and their families.
January 27, 2010
Interview with Dick Alexander
Dick Alexander discusses how local churches can build missions into their DNA, prioritize unreached people, support long-term missionaries, and approach short-term trips with humility and purpose.
December 6, 2009
Reaching Unbelievers: How Effective Is Your Church?
Kent R. Hunter explains why churches must move beyond “y’all come” strategies and develop relational, missional approaches for reaching unchurched people in everyday community life.
December 6, 2009
Mud, Sweat, and Tears: Recipe for Hope
A Katrina relief trip to Biloxi brought together volunteers from different churches for hard work, shared meals, spiritual stories, and the discovery that service often changes the servants.
December 2, 2009
An Issue to Discuss, a Resource to Consider
Mark A. Taylor highlights practical evangelism resources and shares an excerpt from Arron Chambers’s Eats With Sinners, emphasizing intentional relationships and shared meals as a biblical model for reaching lost people.
November 29, 2009
Restoration Revolution
Russell Johnson introduces Restoration Revolution, a 10-year mission effort calling churches and leaders to prayer, church planting, translation, discipleship tools, and new laborers.
November 29, 2009
INTO AFRICA: Ray and Effie Giles
Ray and Effie Giles helped plant churches in Ethiopia, served through famine relief and mission leadership, and saw the Ethiopian church grow through persecution.
November 29, 2009
INTO AFRICA: Dennis and Lucy Pruett
Joe Bliffen recounts Dennis D. Pruett’s decades of medical evangelism in Zimbabwe, from Mashoko Mission and Christian Hospital to worldwide efforts through FAME and HASTEN International.
November 29, 2009
INTO AFRICA: Bob and Phyllis Mills
Bob and Phyllis Mills spent 47 years in Africa, building a correspondence and publishing ministry that shared Christian literature in more than 20 languages.
November 29, 2009
Fifty Years of Missiology: 1960-2010
Doug Priest highlights key 4C missiologists whose missionary service, teaching, writing, and institutional leadership shaped the academic discipline of missiology and strengthened Christian mission worldwide.
November 29, 2009
Best Mission Practices in the 21st Century
Robert Reese considers what today’s global Christians can learn from New Testament missions: gospel priority, equality across cultures, wise stewardship, humble learning, and faithfulness under persecution.
November 29, 2009
The Burning Need
Greg Pruett calls Christians to see the world’s urgent spiritual and physical needs and join the mission through prayer, giving, sending, or going.
November 8, 2009
City Centered: Making a Difference One Relationship at a Time
Hope Inner City serves Cincinnati through long-term relationships, challenging program-driven assumptions and showing how urban ministry can prioritize presence, discipleship, and faithful love.
August 16, 2009
The Perfect Recipe
Churches across the United States partnered with Lifeline Christian Mission and Kids Against Hunger to pack meals for hungry children in Haiti, involving volunteers of all ages in hands-on service.
July 12, 2009
China, Congress, and the Jericho Road
Paul E. Boatman reflects on Chinese officials’ surprising openness toward Christian influence, shaped by house churches, earthquake relief, and the visible compassion of believers in China.
June 14, 2009
Transformed Lives Through God’s Word in Every Language
Greg Pruett reflects on Bible translation in West Africa and the transforming power of God’s Word when people receive Scripture in the language they understand best.
