Missions

“IMB president David Platt announced Thursday that the agency needs to cut at least 600 missionaries and staff in order to balance its budget. Those cuts are needed to make up for a $21 million deficit for 2015.”

During an outing that morning, their church young people were swimming and began struggling with a strong current. Joshua went to save the young people but sadly he and one of the young people drowned in the process.

Why Missionaries Can Never Go Home Again

Dr. Jeff Straub: “I would like to suggest some practical ways to increase the church’s missionary support commitments. How do we teach our church to give to missions? How much should we be giving as a church?”

Dr. Jeff Straub: One real gauge of a church’s missions-mindedness is its missionary support structure; how many missionaries a church supports, how much it gives them and how often, and whom it supports all say something of its commitment to missions

Dr. Jeff Straub: “If a pastor wants his church to be committed to the Great Commission, he must be dedicated to it himself. But where to begin? How does a pastor become missions-minded?”

Terrorism Charge Snares Prominent American Missionary