Meanwhile, missionaries, and other people raising support, now have additional resources to help them in their efforts to go to the mission field. Inner City Impact’s Bill Dillon has written “People Raising: A Practical Guide To Raising Support.” The resource material consists of workbooks, videos and study guides to help new or veteran missionaries, short term and summer missionaries, missions personnel directors and others in raising support more effectively.
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Christians in Latin America are learning how to evangelize the continent.
Plans are underway to launch a new mission into Nagaland. Doctor L. Tsanso of Gospel Revival Ministries just completed an evangelistic tour to the Nagaland region, which includes Nepal, Bhutan and surrounding areas. GRM is hoping to set up a mission to launch mission work into the region, which would cover those areas and parts of Tibet. The Nagas were headhunters as recently as 40-years ago. Nagaland is a restricted area, surrounded by Indian troops. Tsanso says it’s nearly impossible for outsiders to reach this area.
Elsewhere, New Focus National has presented the country with an evangelistic approach to a type of crisis management. Betsy Dekker explains the function of New Focus programs in the church. “The church wants to do more than just meet their immediate need. The church is caring deeply for their welfare and the church does this by holding a weekly class to help these people figure out where they are in their finances and relationships…and the church offers friendship accountability.” We contacted Olivet Baptist Church in Oklahoma City for the practical application of the program. Heart and Hand Ministry’s Sterling Artnzen. “We have people that are in crisis today, realizing they’re in a crisis, admitting what they’ve done wrong, believing that God can change their situation, and understand that change is going to be difficult. Then they have to understand that they have to discipline themselves in a different manner, and as an end result, freedom will come to them.”
Chinese soldiers in Sudan cause alarm for Christians caught in the civil war.
A special project is aimed at sharing Christ with Jamaica’s poor.
And finally, Bibles for the World announces a new work targeting the Buddhist population in Cambodia. The group is partnering with Kampuchia (KAM-poo-CHEE-uh) for Christ in distributing thousands of Scripture portions. Setan (SEE-tahn) Lee, a killing field survivor, asked Bibles for the World to work with him to provide the Scriptures to Cambodians. On November 16th and 17th, Bibles for the World’s John Pudaite will be in Cambodia with Setan for a live Scripture distribution campaign. In preparation, BFTW has already printed the Gospel of John and Gospel tracts, with the book of Genesis in the works. Please pray for the details of the mission and for its outcome.
