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.
January 1, 2023
Remember the Children initially raised funds to help orphans and took medicines to orphanages, Andy Baker says. Later the ministry began focusing on finding Romanian families for orphans. Soon that work expanded to helping at-risk children living in extreme poverty. Eventually, RTC saw the need for communities of faith in places where the gospel was not having an impact and began planting churches . . .
December 17, 2022
After 10 months of war in Ukraine, more than 75,000 residential buildings have been destroyed, 40 percent of the electric grid is critically damaged, and many villages and small towns have been wiped out. Thousands have died and millions displaced. Amid all this, Christians are at work helping their friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens.
December 9, 2022
South African Church of Christ Mission celebrated its centennial with a huge gala this year. Christians remembered those who began the work and honored their leaders from the past century. Michael and Caryl Stanley, missionaries whose family has worked in South Africa for 70 years, celebrated a full half-century of service and officially retired from the work.
December 7, 2022
Bob and Gretchen DeVoe—founders of Lifeline Christian Mission—have just published "Memoirs of Two Crooked Missionaries." Also briefs from Pioneer Bible Translators, Ozark Christian College, and a retirement at Central Christian College of the Bible.
November 1, 2022
By Laura McKillip Wood Renee Flory had already taken a mission trip to Eastern Europe when she heard Glen Elliott (a missionary to Ukraine for five years in the 1990s and later lead pastor of Pantano Christian Church in Tucson, Arizona, for more than 20 years) speak to her church about Tavriski Christian Institute (TCI), a Christian seminary in Ukraine. During her previous trip, she had felt drawn to the people of that nation but believed God was telling her to wait. She returned to teaching kindergarten in California. But then in 2000, when she met Glen, she told him
November 1, 2022
A Short-Term Mission Trip to a Liberian Orphanage, an ‘Experiment,’ and a 6-Year-Old Blind Girl Named Princess
November 1, 2022
By Jerry Harris I admittedly write this column with some bias. Either because of how I was raised or how God wired me, a church service just seems incomplete without an invitation to enter a relationship with Jesus Christ. When I was growing up, invitations came after the preacher finished his sermon. He would leave the pulpit and come down to the floor—to the same level as his hearers—and invite those in the congregation to come forward and do some business with God. During an invitation song the preacher would scan the audience for movement. Those who came forward—to accept
October 6, 2022
Christian individuals and ministries are working together with the goal of raising the necessary funds to install 10 mini-pitch turf soccer fields in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. The first two fields were installed by a joint team of U.S. and Kenyan workers this spring.
September 19, 2022
Andrey told me stories of the Nazi occupation of their region during World War II, and how the German army used the building as a prison, and that many prisoners were hanged there. . . . We all assumed it could never happen again . . . and yet Russian occupiers have turned life in the city into a torturous reminder of those old horrors.
September 8, 2022
Doug Lucas of Team Expansion writes: "We have been surprised and amazed that in the 12 months since our troops’ rushed departure from Afghanistan in August 2021, God has raised up more than 100 families in a Christian network that defies anything previously known in that nation."
September 1, 2022
By Laura McKillip Wood Kevin and Renee Payton talked as they did their Christmas shopping. It was December 2002, and they were home on furlough from their ministry in Simferopol, the central city in Crimea, which was still part of Ukraine at the time. Kevin had been teaching theology at a college in Crimea for about four years, but they saw their work with these students ending, as former students who had gone on to seminary were returning to teach at the college. Maybe the need for American professors was waning. But what would they do? As they talked, they
August 23, 2022
If Jesus were walking on this earth today, he would be in all the places no one else wants to go. . . .
August 22, 2022
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, Vika and Sergey made a hard decision. She took their girls and moved to Bulgaria, where they were safe from Russian attacks. With this year's invasion of Ukraine, Sergey is no longer able to travel back and forth to Bulgaria . . .
June 17, 2022
Mulberry International's ministry to Ukraine—primarily in the hard-hit Mariupol region—has focused on three areas of ministry since Russia's invasion in February: evacuation of the innocent, humanitarian aid, and sharing the gospel.
June 3, 2022
When she was growing up, Sarah Putman never considered herself a missionary candidate, but through a roundabout path, she is now serving in Romania and helping refugees who have escaped the war in Ukraine.
May 23, 2022
Natalia serves as chaplain for a western Ukrainian church that has provided relief to displaced people since the beginning of the war. This is the story of the help provided to three women through the church's "humanitarian hub."
May 12, 2022
Poland and its people have been generous hosts to upwards of 3 million Ukrainian refugees . . . but it has taken a toll. “Poles are afraid,” says Jay Bowyer, a missionary with Graceland Ministries. “They are living their daily lives with the threat of war looming large.”
May 9, 2022
David Faust traveled to Romania with Remember the Children’s Andy Baker and others the last week of April. The group sought to encourage Romanian Christians who have been assisting the thousands of Ukrainian refugees who have flooded into their country since the war began in late February.
May 6, 2022
Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, I asked my good friend Yuri if he was still in Kramatorsk. His strong reply was, “Of course, Michael, I am a pastor.” . . .
May 4, 2022
The war has affected all citizens of Ukraine, even those on the fringes of society, such as the Roma people. Christians in southeastern Ukraine have been working to create a Bible translation in several of the Romani languages . . .
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