Posted by the Editor
Over the next few days, courtesy of Brad Byrd, Radstock's US director, we will be publishing a series of 'shorts' on global mission, beginning with the words, 'Global mission is...' to stir our grey matter, and galvanise our hearts... Click here for more!
Posted by Brad Byrd
Abi and I were out to dinner the other night sans the 3 older kids, we had Jems in tow. They were enjoying the hospitality of good friends we spent time with when we lived here in the Balkans doing similar work to us.
Our dinner was with Ahmet and Eliona (far...
Posted by Nick Lugg
Back in April, our Zambia network partners, Lordsway Ministries, held their 3rd Easter conference. Easter is the time we have set for all of our churches to come together, and in previous years we have had wonderful times, but nothing to compare with what happened this...
Posted by Alok Srivastava
Greetings from one of the new churches in Uttar Pradesh (pictured above), who had just celebrated the dedication of their church building in May 2009. The vision of the 2020 Network of Uttar Pradesh is to see the Christian population grow from 1% to 20% by the...
Posted by Alok Srivastava (ed. Paul Williams)
Q: What does a church planting network in Uttar Pradesh, India, have in common with the work of a church in Southampton, England, apart from each being part of the Radstock network? And what does it mean to the folks in Southampton to be part of the...
Posted by Anthony Adams
The last in a series of questions about world mission, posed to me by Stephen Murray, church planter in South Africa.
6. What would you suggest to the many small local churches interested in mission, who are firstly, financially unable to structure an effective foreign...
Posted by Anthony Adams
Continuing a series of questions about world mission, posed to me by Stephen Murray, church planter in South Africa.
5. With regard to missions agencies, how much oversight of these agencies should belong to local churches?
Hmmmmm – hard to say since I think that...
Posted by Anthony Adams.
Continuing a series of questions about world mission, posed to me by Stephen Murray, church planter in South Africa.
4. Do you think there is place for organizations which don’t place the local church at the center of mission?
Well – it can rarely be wrong...
One of Radstock's Albanian friends who is currently church planting, sent some prayer news yesterday. It included this thought-provoking entry.
UNSEEN WORLD
Missions, church planting, would have been much easier if it was just us and the people. But the Bible says to us that we battle...
Posted by Anthony Adams
Continuing in a series of questions about world mission, posed to me by Stephen Murray, church planter in South Africa.
3. You work with an organization that puts a lot of emphasis on the local church. How central do you see the local church to mission and especially...