I want to point you to a valuable resource, one of few related to reaching the unreached nations among us. Ethnic Embrace USA is a book that you will want to add to your collection. Part information, part devotional, part prayer guide, this book turns our focus to several of […]
I received a bittersweet compliment today: “I’ve been involved in church planting and always thought it had to be complex and complicated, but then I read Discovering Church Planting.” While I am honored and deeply appreciate this word, I am troubled that such a paradigm shift had to occur. If […]
Can They Hear Through the Complexity?
When I wrote Strangers Next Door (2012), I shared stories of churches that caught the vision of reaching unreached peoples who had migrated into their neighborhoods. These churches–with these new believers–then followed those social networks across the world to reach others. In today’s post, I want to draw your attention […]
Oaxaca to Bakersfield: Removing the Barrier Between Foreign and Domestic
Arrogance is a blight in the Field of the Kingdom. Many struggle with it. Some of us privately. Some of us publicly. Unconfessed, it grows and consumes, grieves and quenches, always resulting in death. The individual may accomplish many great things while covered with this blight, gaining the praise of […]
The Blight of Arrogance in the Field of the Kingdom
I recently returned from Dearborn, Michigan, part of Metro Detroit. This community is home to the largest concentration of Arab Muslims in the United States, many of which are from Yemen, Lebanon, and Iraq. During our time there, we visited three mosques and spoke with several long-term residents in the […]
A Reflection on Dearborn
The Institute of International Education released today the new numbers on international students studying in the United States. And once again, we have reached a new high of 820,000 students. China is the leading driver of this growth, mainly undergraduates. Her numbers are on the rise. Saudi Arabia had a […]
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