Kroo Bay is the poorest slum community in the capital city of the world’s poorest country. We walked through an open-air market, down a side street in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, West Africa. The vibrant colors and smells of the fruit and vegetables filled our senses. The road was narrow yet full […]
A banner announcing Christian radio station Radio Impacto hangs across a busy street in the Guatemalan border town of La Mesilla. Photo credit: Polly MacHarg. Radio Impacto, a small, 1,000-watt FM Christian radio station in La Mesilla, Guatemala, is also planting churches. “Our goal is to reach Chiapas state [in southern Mexico] with the gospel,” […]
The Church in India by and large is a product of mass conversions. As a result of a treaty-like agreement, toward the end of the 1900s entire villages subjected themselves to wholesale baptisms. Caste, native influence and the incentives involved in accepting the gospel played significant roles in these events. Lower caste individuals treated with […]
[Cybermissions: The intentional front-line cross-cultural use of computers and the Internet to facilitate the Great Commission.] The Internet is being used worldwide to spread the gospel. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN can help hundreds of millions of people who are interested in searching for faith to find the gospel. In fact, “God” […]
Wi-Fi is making limitless Internet access possible. The world is on the move. People can’t stand still. There are more than 600 million motor vehicles worldwide; global bicycle production in 2000 alone totaled 101 million. Over thirty thousand commercial airline flights occur every day in the United States alone, and an endless number of buses […]
Five thousand Hindu villagers sit on the ground watching a movie on the life of Christ. They see an Indian Barrabas, just released from prison, running toward Calvary with outstretched arms. Barrabas cries in Hindi, “Babu! Babu! You have died in my place!” The concept of substitution plants itself indelibly in the audience’s mind. The […]
