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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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Chinese College Student On The Verge Of Salvation

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There is a girl who has been attending our English Corners, discipleship dinners, camps, and various other activities for years. She is graduating this year and trying to make a decision about her future. I’ve had the privilege to help counsel her and give her a loving listening ear.  This week I had the chance to spend…

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How God Revealed Himself To My Chinese Friend

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Let me tell you the incredible story of a sweet Chinese girl who I met at our Friday night English Corner last semester. I invited her to our more intimate Tuesday night English Corner, and began to spend lots of one-on-one time with her. She quickly became one of my closest friends here in China.…

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Get 180,000 Thai People Invited To Franklin Graham’s Festival

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For the first time in Thailand’s history, the Abundant Life Festival with Franklin Graham is coming to Chiang Mai on November 22-24, 2013.   Let’s help get 180,000 Thai people to attend! It’ll only take $4,500!   Help us print 180,000 tickets. Each ticket costs 2.5 cents to print. Your donation of any amount will…

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Rise of the Underground Chinese Church

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Our 13 local underground Chinese missionaries and 8 foreign staff and interns are continuing to grow and expand this ministry through their faithful efforts among unreached people groups and college students. Not only that, faithful American and international financial supporters have recently been joined by the Chinese underground Church. Last month we hosted a team…

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How’s Within Reach Global Doing? A Candid Answer

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Five years ago, we were sitting in a circle praying and worshipping at a nearby lake during one of our local missionary conventions. Each team member was asked to consider where they would be in five years. After everyone had shared, it was our turn. “In five years we will no longer be living in…

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Why Evangelism Can’t Be Our Focus

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Any time you work and minister in a closed or restricted access nation, you have to be creative in your approach to ministry. That is, how can you go about reaching people for Christ and stay under the radar at the same time? In our setup at Within Reach Global, we have found that the…

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The Bridge For 100,000 Students

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The Bridge is our newest underground outreach center in the center of 8 universities and 100,000 students. We just opened The Bridge this month, our sixth underground outreach center. Within Reach Global staff have moved to this booming college town, with eight universities. There are over 100,000 college students in the area, a huge population…

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The 100% Model: Taking A Page From The Charity: Water Handbook

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Ever since I heard of charity: water’s bold promise to the general public, that 100% of their donations would go directly to the field to fund water projects, I was enamored. I coveted their promise, and sought to come up with ideas to replicate that strategy at Within Reach Global. Given, we are still somewhat…

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Missions Ain’t That Mysterious

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I have recently come to understand that many Christians do not get involved in long term missions because of the mystery surrounding what missionaries do. Or perhaps what missions actually is. Or possibly because they feel they have to “sacrifice it all for the sake of the call,” giving up their gifts and enjoyments to…

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