Articles for tag: Mission Agencies

October 24, 2020

By David Empson The church in America could learn much from how foreign missionaries persevered during the coronavirus while continuing to advance the cause of Christ. In early April, I received an email update from sisters Megan and Michelle Moss, missionaries serving in Tanzania. At the time, most Americans were still homebound and wrestling with internet issues, virtual meetings, and restaurant withdrawal. Mostly, we were wondering how long this pandemic would last. The Mosses wrote: ________ Many times, as missionaries, we really need you to be there for us. But right now, we’re seeing how God has equipped us in

May 11, 2014

Christian Standard

Mission & Evangelism

Megachurches and Missions

By Chris DeWelt Suspicious of missions? Uninterested in missionaries? Disengaged from foreign fields? Not the megachurches I interviewed for my doctoral thesis and this report. Actually, I found just the opposite. The American megachurch is interested in missions! The advent of the megachurch is a phenomenon unique in church history. The fact that the megachurch is here is hardly a news item, but the growth and influence of megachurches is a significant part of our current story.1 Just 53 years ago there were only 16 Protestant megachurches2 in America. The Hartford Institute for Religion Research lists about 1,500 megachurches.3 Currently,

November 8, 2012

Christian Standard

Mission & Evangelism

Very Good Indeed

By Mark A. Taylor Not every missionary expert posting at this site this month agrees with every other posting here. Readers need not find this discouraging. The point is that more missions work is happening among Christian churches and churches of Christ than ever before, and that”s good. New churches are being planted cross-culturally. Independent congregations in areas once served only by U.S.-supported missionaries are starting new churches that then send out their own missionaries. Thousands of children are receiving nourishment of body and soul because members of Christian churches are sponsoring them with monthly donations. All this is good.

February 14, 2010

Christian Standard

Mission & Evangelism

A List of Mission Agencies Serving in Haiti

By Georgia Sharpe and Reggie Hundley This is a list of contacts for missionary agencies serving in Haiti, as well as (further down) a list of four groups from the Christian churches/churches of Christ working closely with individuals and missionaries in Haiti to provide relief for earthquake victims and their families. This list is provided to CHRISTIAN STANDARD and its readers by Georgia Sharpe and Reggie Hundley of Mission Services (www.missionservices.org). 1. Ambassadors of Christ in Haiti, Carl & Carole Vorst, 11146 Morrow Drive, St. Ann, MO 63074; Gilbert Jules 2. Central Haiti Christian Mission, Carolyn Yeggy, 278 Ihle Drive,

February 1, 2009

Christian Standard

Restoration Movement History

Restoration Revolution

By David Empson What could happen if all of us worked together in a special emphasis to reach the lost? That”s the challenge of a number of people who have been working together on this dream for several months. Their vision: to set aside the years 2011 to 2020 for a new move of God in our churches, college ministries, and mission agencies. Dave Linn, who will serve as president of the 2010 National Missionary Convention in Lexington, Kentucky, proposed this idea to the NMC Continuation Committee during the most recent convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Inspired by Acts 13:2, Linn