Press Release | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 23, THE DAY OF PENTECOST, IS ALSO THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE UNREACHED; “A THIRD OF US” WILL LAUNCH THE 1:11 PRAYER CHALLENGE DURING A FACEBOOK LIVE EVENT (Wheaton, IL) May 14, 2021 — On May 23, 2021, the Alliance for the Unreached, a nonprofit collective made up […]
International Day for the Unreached to be Observed May 20 What will it take to reach those who have yet to hear of Jesus? The breadth of projects being pursued by organizers of the International Day for the Unreached (www.dayfortheunreached.org) – to be celebrated Pentecost Sunday, May 20 – reveals the scale and scope of the […]
Many of us have heard this simple sentence on the TV or radio around Thanksgiving: “Give thanks for the healthy kids in your life, and give to those who are not.” It is the tag line that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital uses for their Thanks & Giving campaign each year. What I’ve always loved […]
When Jesus walked in our midst over 2,000 years ago, he gave his followers a Great Commission and a Great Commandment. Both are directly tied to Jesus’ mission to extend the Kingdom of God to every person on Earth. The Great Commission was the “what,” and the Great Commandment was the “how” to undertake the […]
I woke earlier this week to horrific images of innocent men, women and children dying in the streets of a Northern Syrian town. Some of the images were too graphic to stomach. But the deeper horror and revulsion is that this kind of evil still exists in our world today—perhaps more than ever. One image, […]
You plan and promote two events at your church. The first is a strategic planning session on how to reach Somali refugees in your community. The second meeting is a session on how to infuse a lifestyle of evangelism into your everyday life. I can guarantee you that the first meeting will receive a […]
The church is tiny by anyone’s standards. Constructed of woven bamboo and with a few chairs inside, it is still a bustling house of worship in one of the more remote villages in Tripura, India, where Christians are few and far between. Yet this past Christmas the Evangelical Free Church of India in Brikharampara played host […]
Did you know that in today’s world of mass communication and global transportation, there are still more than 2 billion people who have never heard the gospel? That’s staggering! One third of the world’s population remains unreached. At the same time, only one percent of the resources given to Christian causes goes to reaching the […]
A few years ago something profound and mysterious happened to me that has forever changed my convictions about the Great Commission. While in college, I was “gym rat”—the kind of guy that would make any excuse to be a gym playing basketball every day. One time I was running late getting to a game, […]
When I was growing up in Sunday school, I remember the teacher making us stand up at the beginning of every class to sing. And of course, at that age, the teacher made us go through all these crazy motions that today would throw my back out. One of the songs we used to […]