This interview took place on November 1st, 2009. Click here to see the entire interview.
The interview will be conducted live in the comment section of this post (scroll down this page). Jerry has 17 years of long-term missionary work experience.
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What verses come to mind when you think of the word, “missions”? Most of us can only think of the Great Commission. Foryears our church culture has singled out this passage to be the theme of our missions conferences and the motivation for those who go. However, the Bible has a lot more to say [...]
/Christian Newswire/ — Family.ChristianVolunteering.org was recently launched to connect families with local ministry opportunities, short term family mission trips and volunteering resources. The website, a joint venture between SixSeeds.org and ChristianVolunteering.org, has attracted thousands of organizations–all looking for families to donate their time in helping the disadvantaged.
The partnering organizations hope to aid families in their [...]
Astronaut Patrick Forrester
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. /Christian Newswire/ — Proving that space flight is not the highest calling for a pilot, astronaut Patrick Forrester is taking a bit of missionary history onboard space shuttle “Discovery,” which is scheduled for liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Aug. 25. The aim of [...]
Thoughts on Pre-, Less-, and Post-literate Cultures
There is significant discussion today about oral cultures and how they learn and how they should be evangelized and built up in faith. The discussion ranges from pre-literate to post-literate—from cultures that have never had their languages written down to Western groups that no longer read but only watch [...]