Vision for Mission is a newsletter from Randy Friesen, General Director of MBMS International. Randy highlights recent worldwide stories and events that will help you build a vision for mission.
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I had the incredible privilege this past week to teach and learn from 15 pastors and leaders from across North Africa. We had invited these young leaders to meet together to work through the 37 discipleship lessons we have developed for Muslim background believers. As we shared our lives and stories with each other I was repeatedly reminded of Peter's words "If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God rests on you." (1 Peter 4:14) I saw the glory of God.
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I was recently visiting with a regional medical coordinator named Adelphia in his small two room clinic in the Wounaan village of Maje, deep in the Panamanian rainforest. Adelphia pointed to the grass roofed houses of his children on the hill side below the clinic as he shared his family's story. The gospel transformed his life thirty years ago and now his many children and grandchildren are following Christ.
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I've been reading the story of Bill Wallace, the missionary surgeon who was
martyred by communists in China in 1951. He was renowned as the finest surgeon
in South China. When all other missionaries had fled the country and a bandit
army was approaching he was given one last opportunity for escape. An American
captain whose ship was anchored in a nearby river informed Wallace he could no
longer be responsible for Wallace's safety if he stayed.
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We were driving to a Sunday morning preaching assignment in rural India. As we passed through the villages and fields in the early morning mist there were people moving everywhere. The sheer numbers were astounding. Our driver was committed to breaking speed records. When I wasn't praying for protection on the roads I was praying for the countless people we passed.
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Just recently, our staff hosted a missionary retreat for our workers in Europe and North Africa. Most of them are working in spiritually "dry" communities where people don't know that there is "living water" available. One remarked that this generation of Europeans have forgotten that they have forgotten God. Our workers and partners in North Africa live in a spiritually intense environment (imagine a Muslim call to prayer loudspeaker waking you up at 4 am each day). Many North Africans, however, are also very curious about the gospel.
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