missions

I encourage you to focus today on your specific calling. If you cannot complete the sentence, “My ministry is _______________,” pray and reflect until you can. Then live every day in alignment with your missional purpose, remembering that “how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives” (Annie Dillard).

Former pastor Vance Pitman stepped down from his successful megachurch because he felt called to focus on what he calls the “big C” church.

Pastor David Platt said at a recent conference that Christians need to invest more in mission work to help reach the 3 billion people in the world who are “unreached.”

Pastors and laypeople have dramatically different views about the scope of missions, according to a new Barna survey that probes what Christians believe about Jesus’ commandment in Matthew’s Gospel.

A New York Jewish couple has donated $18 million to help fund Christian medical missions in Africa.

March 6 is World Day of Prayer. Initiated by women in the 1890s, World Prayer Day is a day to pray for and look for ways to support women and children in need as well as to pray for and support local and foreign missions.

This year’s many risks, from fuel-price riots in Haiti to violent unrest in Nicaragua, have forced a fresh reckoning with thorny questions: How much risk is too much?

International Mission Board President David Platt said he would be stepping down from his post at the mission agency.

As the battle over Confederate monuments suggest, one person’s saint is another person’s sinner.

Latino churches with immigrant congregations are working to support ministriesin their home countries, and its work that is spreading to other congregations, but it’s also ministry that isn’t always easy.