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The Student Mission Movement

Revival and Mission Movements: Bed Fellows or Marriage Partners? – Part 2

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By Thuo Mburu
Thuo is the director of Trinity Fellowship in Nairobi, Kenya.
I. Review of Last Week’s Post
This paralysis (between the revival and mission movements) begs for humility on both sides to view revival and mission movements more of marriage partners than bed fellows. They have an existential relationship which can only be [...]

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Revival and Mission Movements: Bed Fellows or Marriage Partners? – Part 1

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By Thuo Mburu
Thuo is the Director of Trinity Fellowship in Nairobi, Kenya.
Introduction
The Christian cross-cultural mission movement has historically ridden on the crest of spiritual revival movements. From the Pentecostal awakening in Jerusalem (Acts 2f), the world Christian movement has been accelerated by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in similar manners over the last two [...]

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Cultivating a Greater Mission Emphasis in Our Student Discipleship – Part 3

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By Peter Mbugua
Peter serves with Trinity Fellowship based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Here in Africa, the challenge has a different flavour. The average pastor in the rural town is not a holder of even the 8th grade Certificate of Primary Education , let alone a college education.
How will such a pastor embark [...]

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Cultivating a Greater Mission Emphasis in Our Student Discipleship – Part 2

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By Peter Mbugua
Peter serves with Trinity Fellowship based in Nairobi, Kenya.
But there were some discomforting elements regarding the highway to hurray-land.  Every now and then, news would come that someone had crashed to death in a speed drive.  He was drunk.
The worst of all reports was that very few people on this highway knew exactly [...]

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Cultivating a Greater Mission Emphasis in Our Student Discipleship – Part 1

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By Peter Mbugua
Peter serves with Trinity Fellowship based in Nairobi, Kenya.
THURSDAY, 6:37 AM, HOME, NAIROBI, KENYA:
Younger Son (9 Years): “Dad, may I recite my verses to you?”
Dad: “Not just now, I’m on my way to wash the car. I’ll be back shortly.” (On second thought, Dad sits down) “Well, yes. [...]

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One Student Ablaze: Five Campuses Mobilized

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I thought I had my life all planned. God had broken my heart for a specific group of people, so when I entered Bethany Bible College in New Brunswick, Canada, as a freshman, I truly believed I was preparing myself to go and share Christ among the Latino people.
During my time overseas with Latinos, [...]

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Practical Notes for Facilitating Global Prayer Teams

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It was pitch black as we made our way to the prayer meeting. No street lights or lights shone from around the huts. This wasn’t Atlanta, Georgia, but right on the border between Thailand and Burma. There was no electricity. The only light was from candles burning, showing where the meeting was going to take [...]

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