November 18, 2010
Let’s Get Busy!
Doug Priest encourages seniors to consider direct missions involvement, showing how changing mission trends, flexible terms, and holistic ministry create meaningful opportunities to serve.
Articles for tag: Christian Missionary Fellowship
November 18, 2010
These Seniors Served Overseas
Doug Priest shares stories of retirees and experienced professionals using construction, business, teaching, and counseling skills to serve in global mission settings.
October 30, 2010
Container Transformed into Command Center
FAME is using a Kenya-bound shipping container for a 40-day social media challenge to raise funds for medical mission projects around the world.
October 28, 2010
Jeanes to Retire as President of Milligan College
Donald R. Jeanes will retire as Milligan College’s 14th president in July 2011 after 14 years of service and continue supporting the college as chancellor.
October 16, 2010
A Day for Church Planting
Churches marked 10-10-10 with invitations, offerings, and new church plants, as the Exponential Conference’s 10-10-10 Initiative and Stadia encouraged prayer, support, and action.
April 28, 2010
Pondering the Demands on My Abundance
After visiting Nairobi’s slums with Christian Missionary Fellowship, Mark A. Taylor reflects on privilege, abundance, and Jesus’ call to greater responsibility.
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 1, 2009
My ‘Must-Read’ Books
Christian Standard contributing editors and ministry leaders share must-read books that have shaped their worship, leadership, spiritual formation, ministry, missions, and personal reading.
September 20, 2009
Care for the Earth Is Bringing Good News to the Poor
Doug Priest connects creation care with Christian mission, arguing that caring for the earth is a matter of stewardship, justice, and love for neighbors harmed by environmental degradation.
June 14, 2009
FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Learning to Communicate, Examining History
LeRoy Lawson reviews two books that challenge assumptions: Temple Grandin’s insights on autism and animal behavior, and Garry Wills’s history of Christianity in America.
April 15, 2009
Preview/Order What Kind of Church Is This?
LeRoy Lawson explains the Restoration Movement’s call to Christian unity, tracing its roots through Barton W. Stone, Thomas Campbell, Alexander Campbell, and the desire to be “Christians only.”
April 5, 2009
Balancing Word and Deed
Doug Priest explores how the church can hold evangelism and social action together, arguing that faithful mission includes both word and deed with evangelism as the ultimate aim.
January 28, 2009
Interview with Doug Priest
Doug Priest discusses the National Missionary Convention, short-term missions, mission organizations, and how churches can join God’s work around the world.
January 4, 2009
Life for the Average Christian
Doug Priest reflects on the changing face of global Christianity and argues that mission includes evangelism, justice, environmental stewardship, and care for the poor.
October 8, 2008
Interview with Jim Penhollow
Jim Penhollow discusses church planting momentum, people resources, East 91st Street Christian Church’s multiplication efforts, and the need to focus on underchurched regions.
September 14, 2008
FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Five by Oliver Sacks, MD
LeRoy Lawson reflects on Oliver Sacks’s books, especially Musicophilia, and considers how music, the brain, suffering, communication, and worship intersect in deeply human ways.
July 13, 2008
Restoration Movement Q&A 4
Pat Magness reflects on her deepening commitment to the Restoration Movement, emphasizing local congregations, Christian unity, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and a Christ-centered faith.
July 6, 2008
The Human Side of HIV/AIDS
Judy Fish looks beyond HIV/AIDS statistics to the human suffering, stigma, poverty, and cultural pressures affecting families in Sub-Saharan Africa—and calls the church to respond with action and truth.
July 6, 2008
Hope Partnership: A Way to Get Involved in HIV/AIDS Ministry
Christian Missionary Fellowship and FAME are partnering through the Hope Partnership to serve vulnerable children and families in Nairobi with education, health care, evangelism, and clean water initiatives.
July 6, 2008
Learning to Share Hope
Tom Moen shares how Mountain Christian Church partnered with Christian Missionary Fellowship to serve families in Kenya and help a congregation respond to global need with head, heart, and hands.
