Missions

Faith

I went from conference attendee to Africa missionary

Six years ago, I watched a video which changed my life. Attending the 2012 Kingdom Invasion Conference, the video I watched was about Heidi Bakerā€™s IRIS ministry in Pemba, Mozambique. It...

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Missions under 30: Iā€™m a millennial and Iā€™m not bored

I wonder how many people think that millennials are bored in church? Or unwilling to go on mission trips? Think of us as spoilt or fragile, but donā€™t write us off just yet. Iā€™m a millennial and...

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My struggle with becoming a full-time missionary

ā€œLord, please donā€™t ever call me to be a missionary!ā€ This was my plea after my first mission trip as an 18-year-old onboard Operation Mobilisationā€™s (OM) ship Doulos. It had been an...

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ā€œYou are not a humanitarianā€: The heart and purpose of missions

ā€œTherefore go ā€¦ā€ These two words have been the bedrock (Matthew 28:19) of the missional church today. I have been affiliated with several mission organisations: Cru Singapore (CRU),...

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Where in the world are our young missionaries?

Itā€™s becoming somewhat of a perennial question: How can we engage and mobilise millennials for missions, both within the Church and across cultures? Hereā€™s something my cell member said...

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What perseverance looks like in the mission field

Iā€™ve just returned from a week-long mission trip, where I saw the perseverance of 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 in the local church there. ā€œWe are afflicted in every way, but not crushed;...

Culture

The lies we believe about poverty

There was once I was catching up with a couple of friends in Jakarta when we ended up talking about the state of poverty in Southeast Asia and the possible issues we noticed. Impassioned by the...

Faith

Iā€™m tired of missions, should I keep going back?

This December, I spent a week in a rural town on a mission trip. As I wasnā€™t able to make the trip last year, I made an intentional commitment to go this year. I was eager to catch up from...

Faith

It takes a miracle to feed a whole village ā€“ and we did

Thereā€™s a good chance youā€™ve heard of the story about how God multiplied five loaves and two fish to feed 5000 people (John 6:1-14). If you havenā€™t, it goes something like this:...