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Spiritual Warfare Basics for Serving Among the Unreached – Part 1

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By JFK Mensah JFK is the area director for Pioneers North-West Africa. Introduction Today’s church in the West believes more in Myers-Briggs personality analysis and temperaments than in biblical concepts of demonisation. Our theological institutions fear to talk about demons, visions, dreams and angels. One memorable Sunday, I preached on Jesus Christ and his authority [...]

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Embracing Our Calling as “Expendables” for Christ – Part 2

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By Ryan Shaw Ryan is the international lead facilitator of Student Volunteer Movement 2 (SVM2) and currently lives among the unreached. Hudson Taylor, the famous message bearer to China, once commented, “It is possible to sing ‘My all is on the altar’ and yet be unwilling to sacrifice a ring from ones’ finger, or a [...]

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Embracing Our Calling as “Expendables” for Christ – Part 1

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By Ryan Shaw Ryan is the international lead facilitator for Student Volunteer Movement 2 (SVM2) and currently lives among the unreached. Henrietta Mears In early 1947 an older single woman named Henrietta Mears and her assistant were on a trip visiting what was left of Europe just following World War II. Henrietta was the director [...]

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Becoming a People of Perseverance in a “Now” Generation – Part 2

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By Bernard Messing Bernard is the national lead facilitator for SVM2 in Cameroon. The Christian life is sometimes characterized in the Bible as a race to be run. (Heb. 12:1) 1 Cor. 9:24, “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may [...]

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Becoming a People of Perseverance in a “Now” Generation – Part 1

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By Bernard Messing Bernard is the national lead facilitator for SVM2 in Cameroon. James1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worked patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Obviously, no one [...]

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The Incarnation: From Beauty to Turmoil and Back Again – Part 3

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By Hasmik Babayan Hasmik serves on the SVM2 International Facilitation Team and currently lives among the unreached. The Beauty of the Incarnation in Mission Recently my mind has been busy with some thoughts over the following questions: Who are Christians today and how do they respond to God’s incarnation, how do they understand it? Is [...]

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The Incarnation: From Beauty to Turmoil and Back Again – Part 2

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By Hasmik Babayan Hasmik serves on the SVM2 International Facilitation Team and currently lives among the unreached. God loved so much the world, that He made the very impossible possible – the Consuming Fire that nobody was able to see and to touch made Himself touchable and visible. The one, who was invisible, unreachable, and [...]

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