A blog designed to develop missional leaders
By: Joselyn García, Missionary serving with Genesis in Panama City “Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white for harvest” (John 4:35). In order to make the message clear for his Hebrew hearers, Jesus used illustrations from their daily life, including many dealing with agriculture. In John 4, Jesus tries... Continue Reading →
By: Marleidy Sánchez, Missionary serving with Genesis in Panama In life, we learn the most in times of difficulties, complicated circumstances, and when life does not go as we would have expected. If we were to receive everything we wanted too easily, we would undoubtedly lose the value of effort, perseverance and, above all, patience.... Continue Reading →
By: Dr. Dan Schafer President, World Gospel Mission *The following is an extract from the book: Transformational Vision “Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” – Psalm 27:14 Mind boggling! Sitting in the sweltering heat of an Ugandan afternoon, I typed up and sent off an important email with several... Continue Reading →
By: Dan Reiland Recently we came across the following article and believe that it has some wonderfully practical suggestions to help any local church leader. Although our readers will know that we bristle against vocabulary that refers to “church” as a place we go to or something that can be “attended,” we trust that the... Continue Reading →
By: Alejandra García On September 29, 2019 the new missionaries assigned to Genesis arrived in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic for training before going to the field. After six weeks of previous online training, these four weeks would be the final step to prepare for their task: planting new churches in Monterrey, Mexico and Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.... Continue Reading →
By: Dan Reiland Culture is changing, and it’s changing fast. More than ever before, the church has an incredible opportunity (and responsibility) to make a difference. But let’s be honest, we can’t lead with cultural relevance from the back of the parade. We can’t lead future generations if we don’t know what they want, how they... Continue Reading →
By: Scott Armstrong A recent journey into social media caused me to end up pushing myself away from my laptop and cell phone, wide-eyed at the exaggerated self-promotion of so many voices proclaiming they are right and the other side (whoever that may be) is wrong. It all reminded me of an excerpt from Stevenson... Continue Reading →
A Reflection From Cathy Spangler “I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint” (Hab. 2:1). The other night I had some great contemplation time. I was digging around in Habakkuk... Continue Reading →
*The following article was originally published by Ardeo Global: https://www.ardeo.org/blog/2019/8/21/3-common-misconceptions-about-missionaries We believe that to help you gain some clarity in your next steps as it comes to mission work, you should know what misconceptions exist about missionary living. The following are three things our culture tends to get wrong about what it’s like being a... Continue Reading →
As our readers will know, Hurricane Dorian devastated parts of the Bahamas this week. Early this morning I received the following report from one of our Nazarene pastors who also serves as a member of our Mesoamerica Regional Advisory Committee: Hello Scott, Greetings in Jesus. I live in Nassau, which did not get the brunt... Continue Reading →
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