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We have our fingers on the pulse of modern missions. Mission work is changing rapidly as the world's cultures and global conditions are changing. Ease of travel and communication impact how the Gospel is spread. But at the heart of missions, there is the work of the Holy Spirit, the Word of God, and the obedience of the Church to carry out Jesus' command to go into all the earth.
We want to present challenging biblical truths, insights into today's missions environment, and progress reports on reaching the entire world with the Gospel. Please keep checking our blog regularly for updates, stories and challenging thoughts from Scripture!
200 villages. 5 provinces. 2 hours. 1,435 people baptized. On September 6, 2020, a record-breaking baptism happened in Thailand. On that day 1,435 people from 200 villages in 5 provinces came together at Chon Daen to declare their faith in Jesus Christ and be baptized. Many of them heard about Jesus for the first time in 2020 through the ministry of Free in Jesus Christ Church Association (FJCCA) teams. All 1,435 people were baptized within 2 hours by only 20 FJCCA leaders. This event exceeded previous events: January 2019 (520 people baptized) and October 2019 (640 people baptized). As the...
Unlikely Choice – Cotton Fields and Construction Sites
"I was neither a prophet nor a prophet's son, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees” (Amos 7:14 NIV).
Fifty years in ministry for the Lord Jesus. I recently passed this milestone. God’s call on my life has been remarkable from the very beginning.
My earliest childhood memories are of our 8’ x 10’ camper trailer, which was our actual home. We always parked somewhere near the construction sites where my father was working hard to keep us out of the cotton fields of Alabama. By the time I was in sixth grade, I...
For over a decade I had heard my father, Robert Craft, talk about the church-planting teams he would visit while in Myanmar. He showed me pictures of them and the villages they were entering for the first time to share the Good News. These faithful brothers and sisters faithfully minister to start churches where there had never been any before.
What remained in my memory were the stories of shocking persecution – in the form of property damage, verbal threats and physical attacks – which was met with equally matched responses of perseverance by these national workers. These champions of the...
