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Cross-Cultural Global Missions at Home: Internationals in Your Community
by Leiton Chinn President, Association of Christians Ministering among Internationals Most of us who are not “called” to serve as long-term missionaries or self-supporting tent-makers in another country will remain as residents in our homeland. But staying home doesn’t mean we cannot be engaged in cross-cultural, global missions. In fact, the opportunity to participate in world missions at home continues to grow each year as God brings more international people… Read More
Biblical Mandate for Ministry Among Internationals
God instructs His people to love and care for three groups of disadvantaged, vulnerable, and marginalized people: widows, orphans, and strangers/aliens/foreigners (internationals). In Leviticus 19:33-34, God commands Israel to love the alien residents as if they were native-born and to never mistreat them, with a reminder that they themselves were foreigners in Egypt. Hospitality is taught throughout the New Testament (Matt. 25:35; Rom.12:13; 1 Peter 4:9; Heb. 13:2). The book… Read More
World Refugee Sunday - June 22, 2008
See Life Through Their Eyes Join churches worldwide to pray for refugees and internally displaced peoples--those who have been forced to flee their homelands becuase of persecution and terror. More than 33 million people have no place to call home. They have lost family members, friends, and possessions. Often forgotten--or used as political pawns--these refugees face hardship, disease, and confusion on every side. Additional information about ministry with refugees and displaced peoples can be found at http://www.RefugeeHighway.net Read More
Business as Mission Resources
BOOKS 1. Annotation of Business as Mission Books 2. God Is At Work: Transforming People and Nations through Business, Ken Eldred 3. Profit for the Lord, William Danker 4. Business as Mission: From Impoverished to Empowered, Tom Steffen and Mike Barnett 5. Business as Mission: The Power of Business in the Kingdom of God, Michael Baer 6. Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness… Read More
God Means Business!
by Mats Tunehag Lausanne Senior Associate Business as Mission Business as Mission (BAM) is a relatively new term but is based on Biblical concepts. Other expressions often used include transformational business, great commission companies and kingdom business. The BAM concept is holistic in nature, believing that God has the power to transform people and communities-spiritually, economically, socially and environmentally. The dichotomy between sacred and secular is not Biblical, but this… Read More
Business as Mission
A Business as Mission (BAM) seminar was recently held at WorldconneX. Following the presentation, The Insider had an opportunity to interview the keynote speaker. Insider: How do you define BAM (business as mission)? Bill: This is a complicated issue. The term “business as mission (BAM)” has come to mean different things to different people. To truly understand the term BAM one needs to define “mission(s)” since “business” (in this case)… Read More
Guatemalan Baptists thank WorldconneX
Bill Tinsley, leader of WorldconneX, accepts a plaque of appreciation from Jose Angel Samol, Executive Board President of The Convention of Baptist Churches of Guatemala. Since 2004 WorldconneX has come alongside the leadership of the Guatemala Baptist Convention and pastors within the convention to facilitate vision plans for Guatemala. Read More