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The Family and Missions
March 07th, 201304:03 PM ETBy Dr. Jerry Rankin When we were preparing to leave for the mission field in 1970 our children were 10 months old and two years old. Friends in churches where we served in North Texas and Mississippi often asked us, “You are not taking the kids, are you?” They could not imagine our subjecting these precious children to the health risks and dan... -
Changes in Missions – Part 5: Partnerships Advance the Gospel
February 26th, 201307:13 PM ETBy Dr. Jerry Rankin One of the most encouraging changes in missions in recent years is the increased partnership and cooperation among various organizations and Christians devoted to fulfilling the Great Commission. In fact, in the context of current developments it is amazing to reflect on the isolation, independency and even competitiveness amon... -
Changes in Missions: When Nations Close to Missionaries
February 25th, 201310:48 PM ETBy Dr. Jerry Rankin When we came to Indonesia in 1970 our visa was granted by the Department of Religion, giving official status to our role as missionaries. Although our work permit designated that we were in the country to work with Christians, specifically the Baptist churches, we had relative freedom to witness openly. Being the only foreigner... -
Changes in Missions: Taking the Gospel to Each Ethnic Group
February 22nd, 201304:32 PM ETBy Dr. Jerry Rankin I can recall world maps distributed by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention posted on bulletin boards in churches. Countries were colored red where missionaries were serving, leaving the impression that that country was now being evangelized because there was a missionary presence. There was a display at... -
Changes in Missions – Part 2
February 21st, 201309:18 PM ETBy Dr. Jerry Rankin Arriving in Surabaya today brings a flood of memories of our time in this city more than 30 years ago. After nine years in an isolated East Java outpost we were deployed to this metropolitan area that is now booming with four million people. We are grateful for what God was able to do through us but continue to carry regrets th... -
Changes in Missions – Part 1
February 20th, 201311:50 PM ETBy Dr. Jerry Rankin It was 42 years ago next month that I boarded a ship with my family to sail to Indonesia to embark upon a missionary career that would last 40 years. Lest it sound like a luxurious and exotic beginning, the confinement on an ocean liner for three weeks with sickly toddlers 10-months and 2-years old and sea-sickness induced by t... -
Australian Missionaries Use Audio Recordings to Share Gospel
September 26th, 201212:50 PM ETGlobal Recordings Network is a mission agency seeking to record audio messages about the story of Jesus for as many as possible of the world’s most remote inhabitants. GRN has finally completed its new missions centre in Prospect, west of Sydney Australia. The fully renovated building will not only house the offices and studios of GRN, but will ... -
Marketplace Missionaries
June 14th, 201212:28 PM ETBy Dr. Jerry Rankin Recent research reveals that over the last decade an average of three countries a year close their doors to Christian missionaries. That is based on an unfortunate perception that missionaries are interested only in proselytizing their people, corrupting their youth and disrupting their cultural traditions through enticements t... -
Supporting National Gospel Workers
May 24th, 201204:39 PM ETDr. Jerry Rankin A significant trend has emerged in recent years to support “native” missionaries, working as evangelists and church planters. The rationale is that local indigenous workers are far more effective than Western missionaries and serve for only a fraction of the cost required to send and support workers from America. There have ev... -
Missions in Your Church: Is it a Program or a Passion?
May 18th, 201211:49 PM ETBy Jerry Rankin One of the reasons churches are not doing more to reach a lost world is that missions is just another program. Without passion for the mission of God, there will be little motivation to do what it takes to take the gospel to unreached people groups or even to the unsaved in our own community.I have always been amazed at the marketi...
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