Acts 13:2-5 shows how the Holy Spirit separated Barnabas and Paul for a special work as missionaries, while they prayed and fasted with other believers in Antioch. After being ordained by the laying on of hands, Barnabus and Paul left on their first missionary journey together. 11. He was...
The Lord God says through the prophet Isaiah that He will come to get His people (Isaiah 40:10-11) and the reason is the Lord is not defeated by Israel’s sin. God’s desire is for restoration and we note how this restoration is possible because God’s Word stands forever, God...
Find out how Mary Jane Kinnaird prayed and helped young women; Emma Dryer studied astronomy and became a Bible teacher; Florence Nightingale became a nurse and was useful to God; Lottie Moon thought Missionaries were silly and then became one herself; Ida Scudder changed her mind and then ...
The 12 disciples/apostles of Jesus were the foundation stones of His church, several even wrote portions of the Bible. In Revelation 21:14 we are told that the twelve foundations of the wall of the New Jerusalem will have in them the names of the twelve disciples/apostles. It is evident,...
1 Corinthians 9:5The other apostles, the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas:i.e., the missionaries or the heads of communities who were related to Jesus. It may be assumed that the married apostles, such as Peter, were accompanied by their wives. ...
It’s a fairly broad term covering everything from ‘military brats’ to the children of missionaries, diplomats, business people and Hong Kong’s own cross-cultural mix. Perhaps the best-known TCK is Barack Obama: son of a Kenyan father and an American mother, who s...
There’s a labor shortage…a labor shortage of workers willing to enter into the harvest. It’s made more difficult to find laborers because most people understand that they will reject their message!Where to GoMost people think of missionaries that are in far-flung places like Africa, Asia,...
We will probably never know who were the first missionaries of Christ there. It may be that pilgrims from Rome were among the witnesses and converts on the day of Pentecost in the year A.D. 30. In any case, merchants and travelers could surely have encountered the Gospel and the Church...
Joaquin Phoenix was brought up in the controversial Children of God group. His parents served as missionaries in the early ‘70s, moving their family around South America to spread the word of their religion until they lost faith in the group around 1977. "When people bring up Children of Go...
But this fight is the more important one right now. Right now, the flashpoint is not Cristobal de Colon or the Spanish missionaries. We’ll get to them eventually. Right now the flashpoint is white people who wish that they could still own black people and who want to maintain monuments ...