APWMQ PRAYER POINTS – JULY 2022. Please pray for our missionaries: Keith and Kathie Benn. Wycliffe, Queensland. Keith and Elspeth Campbell Returning to Papua New Guinea, give thanks for their time on home assignment and for being able to raise support to return to the mission field. Ian and Christine Case Ian has an international role with […]
Dear John, Greetings. The mission program that we came for here in Mwansabombwe has been very successful. This is a place where the palace for the Paramount Chief Kazembe of the Lunda people of Luapula Province is. We were only about 400m away from the palace to the place where we have been lodging. Mwansabombwe […]
Praying for the world Week 27 Church-Planting Movements, Insider Movements, Discipleship Movements During the last 25 years, thousands of new followers of Christ have been born among peoples who were historically starved of the gospel. These mass turnings to Christ happen through ‘Church-Planting Movements’ (CPMs), ‘Insider Movements’ or ‘Discipleship Movements.’ They take many forms, and […]
Dear praying friends, My trip to Africa is currently uncertain. I am trying to arrange new plans, since the pastor who was arranging things for me, Pastor Mwambola, and others, especially his bishop, have had their names muddied by the talk of slanderers with no evidence. He (and his bishop) had stood against the Archbishop […]
Buddhism The idea of Buddhism—and Hinduism—as a ‘religion’ is at least partly an invention of early Western explorers and missionaries. Only later was the concept taken up by Buddhists themselves. Almost everywhere Buddhism appears (mostly south-east and east Asia) Buddhist ideas are woven into a much wider tapestry of belief, ritual, filial piety and morality. […]
Praying for the world Week 25 Displaced people 68.5 million people have been forced to leave their homes worldwide: 40 million have fled somewhere else in their own country 25.4 million have left their country as refugees 3.1 million are seeking asylum and argue they can never return home. Of the 25 million who have […]
Praying for the world Week 24 Catholicism Half of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics live in the Americas; a quarter in Europe; the rest are evenly divided between Africa and Asia. Catholicism is the biggest Christian bloc but is slowly declining as a percentage of the world and of the Church. Some trends: Traditional Catholic […]
The Orthodox Church Various major challenges confront the global Orthodox Church. The need for renewal: after a long history of rigid traditionalism, over the last decades an increasing number of Orthodox theologians and priests have been advocating for internal renewal on various levels (worship, Scriptural engagement, missional activity etc). Renewal would address both nominalism and […]
Praying for the world Week 22 Children at risk The world has taken strides in recent years to improve children’s lives. Far fewer are dying from the preventable diseases of childhood. Around 90% have access to primary school. However, millions of children are at risk of serious harm: Neglect: Risk is increased by poverty, alcohol […]
