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Chinese Missionaries Say: Here I Am Lord. Send Me!

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In the first week of November, all the Within Reach Global local missionaries and foreign staff gathered together for a 3 day convention at The Hub outreach center. Many of them traveled nearly 10 hours from our other outreach centers that they minister at.   Post by Within Reach Global. We heard some amazing reports,…

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Touching Performance In China To Michael W. Smith Song

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Blog by Within Reach Global team member J.M. I volunteer teach the music program to over a dozen students at a high school in China, and am grateful to play a part in impacting young lives with the kingdom of God. This week we have been busy with a whole bunch of Thanksgiving activities with Chinese students…

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You Might Be Surprised At The Top 20 Countries Where Christianity Is Growing The Fastest

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Where is Christianity growing the fastest? The Center for the Study of Global Christianity, based at Gordon Conwell Seminary, published In June 2013 an excellent report regarding Christianity in its Global Context. The full report can be found online at here. From this report I identified the top 20 countries that have the highest percentage…

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Watch How The Major Religions Of The World Have Spread Over The Past 5,000 Years

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This map is an incredible glimpse of how the major religions of the world have spread over the past 5,000 years in under 2 minutes. Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world. Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history…

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6,000 Unreached People Groups? That Ought To Change Our Priorities

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There are roughly 6,000 people groups—distinct ethnic tribes—who have never heard of Jesus before. 6,000 unreached people groups? That ought to change our priorities. #missions Click To Tweet Compound that number from people groups to individuals, and the numbers are staggering. Two and a half billion people who are waiting at the other end of…

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Divine Apponintment With A Bound Feet Granny

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Last week, I moved house, and as I was taking my bags out of the main gate of my apartment block, a little old Chinese lady entered the complex at the same time. She was very old, and I noticed that her feet were bound. The sexist practice of binding feet disappeared from China nearly a 150…

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We Have Done So Much With So Little For So Long That We Can Now Do Anything With Nothing!

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Right now I am at The Bridge outreach center region. There are 8 universities within a 5 mile radius, and over 100,000 college students studying here. It’s the perfect place for people with a passion for reaching Chinese college students who know little to nothing about the gospel of Jesus Christ. But our ministry vehicle’s…

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If The Christian Church Was An Apple Picking Society, What Kind Of Apple Picker Would You Be?

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Warning: Get ready for a massive shift in perspective! This witty story helps make sense of the ridiculously lopsided allocation of Christian workers to unreached peoples in the 10/40 Window. [CLICK TO TWEET] For more frustrating statistics on missionary work in the 10/40 Window, see Chances Are, You Don’t Care and The Great Imbalance Of Global Missions.…

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What If There Were Only 7 Churches In North America?

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Some Christians ask: “How can we be concerned about other countries when there is so much evangelism yet to be done here at home?” To answer that question, consider this worker to need ratio: In North Africa, there is only one Christian pastor or missionary for every two million people. What a great imbalance! If…

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I Am A Missionary

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This week in church we watched one of the best short films on missions that we had ever seen. It is incredibly simple, but straightforward and moving, inspiring us again to follow the missionary call upon our lives. We pray that it inspires you to get deeper involved with cross cultural missions at Within Reach…

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