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This is part three of a new series of stories from the field. You won't hear this on mainstream news; this is God's News and it isn't fake! Kate and her team find that targeting tourist locations in the country provides them with opportunities to share their faith with Muslims more freely. After praying for a woman who could not speak Kate and her friend Cookie receive a mysterious phone call in t...

This is part two of a new series of stories from the field. You won't hear this on mainstream news; this is God's News and it isn't fake! Kate's journey leads her to build friendships with Muslims, asking God to speak to her personal words of encouragement that with open their hearts to Jesus. Muslim women are faced with a real encounter with the living God as the Lord reveals the deep secrets of...

Brother Shephen's family and team begin to settle and live among the jungle peoples of southern Africa. This final episode of a five part series tells the story of Stephen and his family pursuing the felt need of the people for better education for their young people. As they saw the love and faithfulness of the missionaries their lives began to changed in many positive ways. Many embraced Christ...

Brother Shephen continues to overcome the dark power of witchcraft as he leads his team into the darkest areas of southern Africa. This fourth episode of a five part series tells the story of Stephen traveling by canoe to new villages in the interior jungles of Africa where the people are in bondage to fear and ignorance. Through their unconditional love toward a deseased tribal member rejected by...

Brother Shephen begins to encounter the dark power of witchcraft as he leads his team into the darkest areas of southern Africa. This third episode of a five part series tells the story of Stephen traveling by canoe deep into the interior jungles of Africa where the people were enslaved by the power of witchcraft and sorcery. Listen to Shephen as he tells the incredible story of how God protected...

Again Brother Shephen reveals the amazing stories that describe his youthful beginnings as a missionary in Southern Africa. This second episode of a five part series tells the story of Stephen's missionary colleagues working among the Yao Muslim peoples of Mozambique. This story demonstrates how this young missionary from Brazil implemented their team's strategy of meeting the physical needs of th...

Brother Shephen reveals the amazing stories that describe his youthful beginnings as a missionary in Southern Africa. This first episode of a five part series charts the course of his team's early days of encountering the extremely poor and primitive peoples living deep in the jungles of southern Africa where Shephen grew up. Through his stories he illustrates how God lead his family and team to t...

Kent Truehl, the author of "The River Peoples", worked in the Amazon jungles of Brazil for many years and shares his insights and stories of breakthroughs among some of the most primitive people groups in the world. Kent started his adventure in the Amazon along with a youthful version of "yours truly" as we visited the Zuruaha people during a two day hike through the deepest and most dangerous pa...

Dr. Kent Parks and Justin Long are two of the world's most influential missiologist who specifically focus on the topic of what it is going to take for the Body of Christ to Finish the Task of reaching all Unreached People groups. In this two part interview, done by Point of View Radio, they explore answers to the most difficult question among mission leaders today, "Why after many years of focuss...

Dr. Kent Parks and Justin Long are two of the world's most influential missiologist who specifically focus on the topic of what it is going to take for the Body of Christ to Finish the Task of reaching all Unreached People groups. In this two part interview, done by Point of View Radio, they explore answers to the most difficult question among mission leaders today, "Why after many years of focuss...

We recently attended a missions conference in southern Thailand where a number of workers among Muslims in Southeast Asia were gathering. There we met several MBBs (Muslim background believers) from Indonesia and Malaysia who told incredible stories of what God was doing through them and through their people. This is the final part of a three part series of many of these stories. Literally tens of...

One of the most significant concepts to impact the modern mission movement is the importance of "Honor and Shame". Instead of the primary focus of cultures in the unreached world being "Guilt and Justice"; "Honor and Shame" is the operating system for all social interaction. How does this change the way that we talk about "Sin" with peoples from non-western worldviews? How might this effect the wa...

We recently attended a missions conference in southern Thailand where a number of workers among Muslims in Southeast Asia were gathering. There we met several MBBs (Muslim background believers) from Indonesia and Malaysia who told incredible stories of what God was doing through them and through their people. This is part two of a three part series of many of these stories. Literally tens of thous...

We recently attended a missions conference in southern Thailand where a number of workers among Muslims in Southeast Asia were gathering. There we met several MBBs (Muslim background believers) from Indonesia and Malaysia who told incredible stories of what God was doing through them and through their people. This is part one of a three part series of many of these stories. Literally tens of thous...

Cal Kohnke of Create International speaking at the US Center for World Mission shares several stories of what God is doing in Asia. He explains how they go about producing indigenous gospel films in the heart language of the people groups using actors and important elements of the culture. The results they have seen in the first several years of their efforts in Asia is very encouraging. A number...

Ralph Winter (December 8, 1924 – Wed., May 20, 2009) was an American missiologist and Presbyterian missionary who helped pioneer Theological Education by Extension, raised the debate about the role of the church and mission structures and became well known as the advocate for pioneer outreach among unreached people groups. He was the founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission (USCWM), William Ca...

An interview done by my friend and Missions Research Scholar - Justin Long (https://www.justinlong.org) Dr Todd Johnson is responsible for the World Christian Database (WCD) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Boston, USA) - I first met Todd in Pasadena, Ca. in 1986 working at the USCWM (Frontier Ventures) - PHD at WCIU (where wife and I received our Masters) - Began working under Dr. David Ba...

In this episode we interview a brother who is working in a very unreached part of the Middle East. He works among one of the most radical Muslim people groups on the planet. He is experiencing incredible favor and fruitfulness using Media created specifically for this language group and delivering that Media to the people using new mobile technology. This is part 2 of a two part interview. Enjoy t...

In this episode we interview a brother who is working in a very unreached part of the Middle East. He works among one of the most radical Muslim people groups on the planet. He is experiencing incredible favor and fruitfulness using Media created specifically for this language group and delivering that Media to the people using new mobile technology. This is part 1 of a two part interview. Enjoy t...

In this episode we interview a missionary evangelist working in East Asia using a wireless devise called the “Dove Stream”. This devise can be loaded with #gospelfilms in the language of the people, and once started up it creates it’s own WiFi Network. This is an incredible new technology that missionaries are beginning to utilize especially in closed and dangerous countries. We have split this in...

In this episode we interview a missionary evangelist working in East Asia using a wireless devise called the “Dove Stream”. This devise can be loaded with #gospelfilms in the language of the people, and once started up it creates it’s own WiFi Network. This is an incredible new technology that missionaries are beginning to utilize especially in closed and dangerous countries. We have split this in...

This tremendous story includes two amazing facts. Iranians by the thousands are coming to Jesus especially in Europe, and many of those new believers are returning to Iran and seeing incredible response and many church planted all over the country. Listen to this testimony by a Dutch missionary who led a Iranian man to Christ who then goes on to lead thousands into the Kingdom. This is most likely...

A short but exciting story of a musical celebrity from a very unreached people group comes to Christ and uses his talent in music and drama to share the gospel message in a powerful way to his own people. This is a great case study for the strategy of using contextual arts and media to see a movement of unreached peoples to Jesus. Enjoy this exciting testimony! This is most likely the first page t...

In the episode of Gospel Gadgets Podcast, Dave Hudson shares all of his secrets behind how to produce professional quality animated films using cheap or free software. How is it possible that a small team of skilled creatives can craft a media tool in the heart language of the people group while creating visuals that are directly contextual for that particular culture? This episode will give you a...

In the episode of Gospel Gadgets Podcast, Ben McClure who works with Create International, shares the insights that he has gathered through years of producing cross-cultural films on a shoe-string budget. Ever wonder how ministries like this can pull off a quality short dramatic film production for less than $10,000? Well in this episode you get the secrets behind the scenes! Also, we want to remi...