The mission of the church is from everywhere to everywhere. While we are in Japan our partnering churches continue to do mission right where they are evangelizing, discipling, and developing leaders. They are also touching their communities in deed by identifying and engaging real and felt needs. Many do this with people of other cultures. We are very proud of each of our partnering churches because their mission commitment is not just “pray and pay”…
GOD ANSWERED For more great visits with our partnering churches, renewing relationships sharing and hearing what God is doing. For joining with one of our churches in the World Day of Prayer. God was there! For some downtime at a retreat center for writing and recharging. We heard that we were fully supported throughout the fiscal year ending in April. Pray it continues. PRAYER PARTNER SPOTLIGHTS For energy, freshness, creativity, and passion as we continue…
SCHEDULE MEHN US TOUR – JUNE 06/04-05 Community Church- Fond du Lac, WI 06/09 We hit the road for our 2nd trip to Colorado 06/11-12 Galilee Baptist Church – Loveland, CO 06/18-19 Aspen Ridge Church – Evergreen, CO 06/22-23 Grace Mountain Church – Colorado Springs, CO 06/24-29 Converge International Ministries, Home Assignment Reentry Summit – Colorado Springs, CO 06/29-07/01 Converge Biennial Meeting REACH, Mission Hills Church – Littleton, CO 07/02-03 Bethel Baptist Church –…
Our ministry in Japan is within the most populated parts of the world. Take a look at Asia: India, China, Indonesia, SE Asia. The map above shows the distribution of the world’s population. Half of humanity lives in the black space and the other half in the yellow. It’s a stunning illustration of the degree to which people are concentrated in certain urban centers, particularly in Asia, where the majority of the global population lives.from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/21/this-amazing-map-shows-where-most-of-humanity-lives/
John recently had an article published in a mission journal, The Evangelical Missions Quarterly. They interviewed him for a podcast that you can listen to the 30min podcast at http://emqonline.libsyn.com/emq-010. EMQ #010 0 Apr 11, 2016 EMQ’s Keith Peters speaks with John William Mehn whose article “What Kind of Leaders Reproduce Churches?” appears in the April 2016 issue of EMQ. ©2016 Evangelical Missions Quarterly. ℗2016 Educational Media Corporation. Read more at http://emqonline.libsyn.com/emq-010#alcET4wHrkYjb3MT.99
We had heard this information before but now it was proven in a new study. What is the greatest influence in people becoming missionaries? Well we heard it again. The number one influence is meeting missionaries. A study was conducted of students who had become missionaries and from interviews they determined the number one influence was meeting real missionaries. “Every person we interviewed spoke about the influence a missionary had on their decision to become…