The Pastor and Missions

In The Nick of Timeby Kevin T. Bauder

Over the past 60 or 70 years, the work of missions has been left largely to the sending agencies. I am very grateful for those agencies, and I deeply appreciate their labors. The business of missions, however, belongs to local churches. The agencies have ended up performing many tasks by default simply because local churches and pastors have been negligent.

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Present Day Missionary Biographies

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Barbara at Stray Thoughts mentions the need for more missionaries to be writing as she announces the publication of a new biography of Dallas and Kay Washer, missionaries to Togo, West Africa. Read here.

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New Mission Field Coming Soon

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Fox News writes that the State Department is to bring 7000 Iraqi immigrants to the US within a year. See here.

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Church Planting and Ice Cream

In The Nick of Time
Note: This article is the first of a three-part exchange between Jeff Straub and Kevin Bauder.

by Jeff Straub

I have to admit, I like ice cream—chocolate, moose tracks, peaches and cream—you name it, and I like it. Baskin-Robbins, Cold Stone Creamery, Ben & Jerry’s. You get the picture.

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Jesus Junk Goes Downtown



Josh Larsen and Jason Gardner, two pastor’s kids from Colorado, recently spent a day in downtown Denver trying to be “witnessing maniacs.”

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A Spur to Churchplant

Note: This article was originally posted November 18, 2005.
A hundred years ago, a couple of men in their twenties and a teenage girl, reared on land now called Idaho, became the chief instruments for one of America’s greatest adventures, discovering a Northwest Passage for the President of the United States.

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