Articles for tag: Unreached Peoples

March 7, 2026

Wes Woodell

Team Expansion Prayer Weekend Shake the Nations!

Team Expansion Prayer Weekend: Shake the Nations!

Team Expansion Prayer Weekend: Shake the Nations! is a focused, in-person weekend of prayer, worship, and Scripture-centered teaching designed to help believers grow deeper in prayer and engage God’s heart for the unreached. Held at Emerald Hills in Louisville, Kentucky, the event emphasizes practicing prayer together through guided prayer times, worship, biblical teaching, and interactive prayer experiences across the campus. Featured speaker John Franklin will lead teaching and workshops, with Ryan and Faith Stapleton leading worship and Ron Friesen guiding an interactive prayer experience.

October 31, 2017

Christian Standard

More Than Bible Translation 

By Greg Pruett  It was my first day on the job back in 1994, and I was eager to get started. I walked onto the West African scene fully trained to translate the Bible””tomes of knowledge about Greek, linguistics, and missiology crammed into my mind. But when the sun rose on my first workday at Pioneer Bible Translators, my mentor didn”t escort me to a desk to show me how to translate. Instead, he walked me over to a well he had hand-dug for the village to show these Muslim people the love of Christ, and we started troubleshooting a

May 25, 2016

Christian Standard

Memo to the Blessed

By Jim Tune It”s staggering. We can buy Bible software that contains 2,000 Bible resources. We can read and search blogs of today”s top Christian leaders. We can attend conferences and hear the best speakers, or plug in our earbuds and listen to them preach. We can direct-message great leaders on Twitter. The resources at our fingertips are amazing. Not only that, but we can write and publish whatever we want. A few years ago we could read only those fortunate enough to be published. Now anyone can start a blog, post a video on YouTube, or publish a book.

February 11, 2016

Christian Standard

My Theology and My Calling

By Doug Lucas I might have tried to become a doctor. That”s what my mother wanted. Honestly, my dad didn”t care, just so long as I landed a “secure job.” Perhaps I would have done something with music. Everyone told me I had a gift for playing piano. My high school guidance counselor said my academic test scores were high enough that I could take my pick of universities across the land. And somehow, I managed to finish high school as valedictorian and president of the student body. He argued that I had a good chance at a full-time scholarship

November 16, 2015

Christian Standard

Opening Doors: Sharing the Gospel in Closed Countries

By Name Withheld Unreached need not mean unreachable, even in countries where Christian evangelism is forbidden. Sousida goes to sleep afraid every night. She never knows what the spirits are going to do to her or her family. She thinks she”s done enough to appease them, but she has no way of knowing. She”s never heard of Jesus. In fact, no one she knows has ever met a Christian or seen a Bible. They have no idea they could experience freedom. Generations of her people have lived and died in total darkness. Further complicating her hopelessness, Sousida”s country is openly

November 23, 2014

Christian Standard

Exploring ‘the Call’ to Cross-Cultural Ministry

By Carla Williams Missionaries are normal Christians. They struggle with temptation. Their families are flawed, and they don”t always wake up with a smile on their faces and a song in their hearts. But missionaries are normal Christians who had a moment of faithful obedience. God uses different circumstances and situations to draw his followers into his plans for the nations. He leads his people, but each person chooses how to respond. He calls some who decide to disregard his voice. For others, thankfully, the choice is to step out in trust. Some believers don”t know if they”ve been called

March 18, 2011

Christian Standard

How the Bible Changed My Life

By Doug Lucas What did the Bible change about my life? Everything. I grew up in a small town. My first exposure to crowds was a trip to Indianapolis 500 Qualifying with my friend and his family. At midday, in the middle of a cloud-bursting rain, we became separated. I was lost in a storm. Suddenly, a Scripture verse popped into my head. It was Deuteronomy 31:6: “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” I looked up into

January 27, 2010

Christian Standard

Interview with Dick Alexander

By Brad Dupray As a youth minister in Southern California, Dick Alexander led regular missions trips to nearby Mexico. Those first ventures into the mission field put a desire in his heart to see cross-cultural ministry take place on a broader scale, which has carried forward into his 25 years as senior minister with LifeSpring Christian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. He leads by example, helping facilitate numerous overseas partnerships. Dick has deep roots in the Restoration Movement, having grown up at First Christian Church, Canton, Ohio, where he was baptized by P.H. Welshimer. He is a graduate of Cincinnati Christian

February 6, 2008

Christian Standard

Interview with Marsha Relyea Miles

By Brad Dupray Marsha Relyea Miles”s credentials as president of the 2007 National Missionary Convention were established in the jungle of Papua New Guinea, where she worked with her husband, John, for more than 20 years on the translation of the Bible into the Aruamu language. With the completion of the translation, and John”s sudden death, in 2005, Marsha returned to the United States to continue her work as director of mobilization and development with Pioneer Bible Translators. Marsha is a graduate of Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri, and the University of Texas at Arlington and is the proud mother

May 28, 2006

Jared M.

Louie Giglio

How Could We Forget?

A student reflects on why believers pray so little for the nations. Using Scripture, a survey, and personal stories from Sudan and North Africa, he points to lack of knowledge, faith, and love as common barriers.

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