In 1994, the country of Rwanda, Africa experienced a genocide of biblical proportions. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa , were systematically killed by Hutu militias.
It is my pleasure to introduce someone I believe is among the foremost voices in apologetics today – Dr. Sean McDowell. I first met Sean about two years ago under memorable circumstances.
This January we enter our 25th year as a ministry. It just seems like yesterday I was deliberating over a vision the Lord had given me in 1994
When we launched MissionConnexion Southwest at Scottsdale Bible Church in 2021, we had no idea we were beginning what would become one of our most meaningful traditions.
My Dad, one of my sisters, and two of our three kids were born in August. For me, August 26th will always be a red-letter day as it was the day I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ…
“When I first heard about the death of the men, I said to myself, ‘The cause of missions is going to be set back for an entire generation.’ I couldn’t have been more wrong,” David Jannsen, one of Jim Elliot’s boyhood friends, told me years later.
This summer I am celebrating the occasion of my first short-term mission trip…50 summers ago! I was one of six students chosen to be sent out from what is now Cairn University in Philadelphia, but I had never been out of our country – not to Canada or to Mexico! Yet, the Lord had clearly and supernaturally led me to where I would be involved in evangelistic beach missions organized by the Church of Scotland.
Thinking of taking your family on a short-term trip overseas? Good for you!! A short-term trip needs prayer, thought…and a lot more!!
As a mother of four, a missionary who served the Lord in four countries with those four and a passionate Christ-follower myself, it’s good to hear of families that want to “go there” with the fam.
One who “follows and spreads the teaching of another,” is called a disciple. Matthew 4:19 would suggest that a disciple is someone who is following Jesus, being changed by Jesus, and is committed to the mission of Jesus.
I remember hearing years ago that Benjamin Franklin, one of the foremost of our Founding Fathers, learned to leave his money pouch at home when listening to the great Colonial evangelist, George Whitefield. Because if not, as he had experienced, he would be moved to “give it all” through Whitefield’s persuasive oratory and appeal.
