Tag: missions
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Avodah – Integrating service, work and worship
by Jon “Six days you shall work.” – Exodus 34:21 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may worship me.’” – Exodus 8:1 “But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” – Joshua 24:15 As part of preparations for future missions, I have taken unpaid…
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Welcoming youths from rural countrysides to a home in an urban town in Thailand
by Phoebe As part of a project for Cross-Cultural Discipleship class, I developed a process to welcome youths from rural countrysides into a home to an urban town in Thailand. Typically when youths in Thailand reach the age of 15, they travel out of their hometowns to seek higher education. They usually live with relatives…
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Is Conversion Your Primary Concern?
by Phoebe In the missions conference that we attended earlier this month, one renowned missiologist/former missionary in Thailand asked this question as he presented a paper to challenge us to rethink our motives for ministry with children in the Buddhist world. Certainly, as we carry out missions and bring the gospel to the nations beyond,…
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Giving Out of Lack
by Jonathan We were recently at a missions conference and during one of the workshops we attended, the speaker was mentioning how in church planting it was good to receive hospitality from those who welcome you into their homes. One of the participants asked how they could do this when the people in many villages…
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Rock. Water. Clay.
by Jonathan We recently took a trip to Thailand to visit our friends and to explore new fields for future ministry. It was a blessed time where we got to catch up with people who have been intricate part of our lives during our stint in Thailand as well as to meet many new friends. One…
Jon and Phoebe's thetomyumkongs journey. 