You know me inside and out
13 For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works;that I know very well.15 My frame was not hidden from you,when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.16 Your eyes beheld my unformed […]
You shall go out with joy
10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth,making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty,but it shall accomplish that […]
What is Service Adventure like?
Hear the 2019-2020 Jackson, Mississippi, unit share about daily life in the house of a Service Adventure unit. Read more reflections about Service Adventure in our story archive.
Hechos para más – Guía Visual
Exponential presentó 3 nuevos marcos de referencia de multiplicación para el tema del 2019. Estos marcos de referencia se enfocan en ayudar a los líderes de iglesias a movilizar al pueblo de Dios, a la manera de Dios. ¡Imagina a cada seguidor de Jesús liberado para ser misioneros cotidianos en sus campos misioneros cotidianos donde […]
Building a Discipling Culture, 3rd Edition
Much ink and many pages have been devoted to all of the missional issues facing the Western church today. As our culture becomes more post-Christian with each passing day, we are all realizing that what has worked in the past is no longer working, that we are far less effective for the Kingdom than we […]
Made for More Visual Guide
The Made for More Visual Guide provides a vision and roadmap for releasing the huge latent capacity that is pent up within the people of God. This "read in an hour," visually engaging, resource introduces and integrates three new frameworks to help shift your ministry from a volunteer based "we can do it you can help" approach […]
Peek into Service Adventure — Faith development
Curious how Service Adventure connects with faith? Let Risa Fukaya tell you! Risa was a participant with the 2019-2020 Service Adventure unit in Jackson, Mississippi.The Jackson unit is supported by Open Door Mennonite Church, which welcomes participants into their church community each year through services, outreach activities, and frequent invitations to Sunday dinner!
Jesus broke the cycle
21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. 22 "He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth." 23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. Graphic design by […]
Omnibus Edition
The image on the cover of this issue of Anabaptist Witness is a painting by our designer, Matt Veith, of a medieval church in Italy from a travel advertisement. The architecture—with the colonial-era buildings that bear resemblance to styles elsewhere in the world, particularly in the Americas—reminds me of a form of Christianity, and of Christian mission, […]
Born of imperisable seed
22 Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart. 23 You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower […]
MOVEMENTS Do we want them badly enough to change
Do you want a movement of disciple-making and church-planting to take place in your city, where disciples make disciples and churches plant churches faster than the growth in population? How badly do you want it? Do you want it badly enough to change the way you have always done church or lived your own personal […]
Church planting reading list
Dive into these books to enhance your work at planting peace churches. Compiled by Brad Brisco, author and Director of Bivocational Church Planting for the North American Mission Board BIVO/COVO CHURCH PLANTING • BiVO by Hugh Halter • The Tangible Kingdom by Halter & Matt Smay • Kingdom First by Jeff Christopherson • The Wholehearted […]