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How do we get the gospel to 3 billion people? Is the Great Commission realistic for today? What's up with international student ministry? Also in this week's Missions Catalyst News Briefs, stories from Mozambique, Somalia, and Ireland + links to more. mailchi.mp/c84b5061d1cf/w…

Silicon Savannah, 25 years in Nepal, and a record-setting baptism mailchi.mp/a1fb0fc16083/w…

Looking for news from Myanmar? Try irrawaddy.com

Our latest: (1) Network of Believers in Place to Bring Aid (2) Top Countries Where Christians Are Persecuted the Most (3) Iran: Three Believers Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison (4) Celebrating a New Turkic-Arabic Field (5) World's 25 Greatest Problems missionscatalyst.net

Missions Catalyst Resource Reviews: mission infographics, Chinese new year, 25 years of a new century and what’s coming up soon. Check it out! eepurl.com/i7ql4U

Did you catch our first edition of News Briefs for 2025? mailchi.mp/missionscataly…

Looks like a great book! amazon.com/How-Have-Bette…

Resource Reviews: Great stuff from @thenavigators @wcpbooks @BeyondUPG + others 1. Prayers to Focus Your Heart This Christmas 2. Ministry Internships 3. Books, Books, and More Books about Missions 4. Video: A Wedding Without a Bride 5. January Events mailchi.mp/missionscataly…

Lebanon: seminary shelters the displaced. Pakistan: Christian a victim of fake conversion. Australia: an illustrated children's Bible for her people (+ other Bible news). India: Persecution escalates in Manipur mailchi.mp/missionscataly…

Our latest news briefs include stories from Bangladesh, Israel, Ireland, Suriname and more. You'll be encouraged by these stories of hope. mailchi.mp/missionscataly…

See my new blog reflecting on the full week of Lausanne 4 in Korea. See, timothytennent.com

@ChrisHowles Thanks! I appreciate how you have let us in on some of the conversation.

I fly early tomorrow, alas missing the final morning. Lausanne has been magnificent. I've met some extraordinary people, learnt some extraordinary things, and hugely enjoyed being so tangibly part of God's global people. Thanks for being with me. Hope it's all blessing you too.

The last church in Bursa, back-to-school baptisms and revival, and more in this week's Missions Catalyst News Briefs mailchi.mp/missionscataly…

Involved in pre-field training or professional development? Read 7 reasons why learning as an online cohort is better than self-study. fieldpartner.org/resources/arti…

Well over half the world's people live in just these ten largest countries.

Resource review time: Catch a new podcast about Eric Liddell from @FollowRadical, a book about the lost in Laos, a free marriage series for missionaries from @Modern_Day, a booklet on the great progress of the gospel in the last 50 years, + August events. missionscatalyst.net

Our latest edition of Missions Catalyst features a creative "Olympic Games" devotional with activities for families + "travel hack" tips for walking with God when you're on the go. See mailchi.mp/missionscataly…

Increasingly I wince slightly whenever I hear the 'Only 3% of missionaries go to the unreached' stat wheeled out. Why? 4 reasons, but others will have have more: 1) Western missionaries, they should say. Those stats only recognize western-style missionary sending. That's not how much majority world mission works, so they just get ignored. 2) It ignores the bigger picture. Many of us working hard in places like Uganda helping to develop mission-sending mentalities there are lumped together in the 'not interested in the unreached' category. 3) Globalization and urbanization make these stats increasingly without solid foundation. If a Western missionary is working in Cairo, or Addis, or Jakarta etc. how can they be classified as working with reached or unreached? That's not how global, multicultural cities work. 4) The stat implies that 'unreached' is a fixed category, enshrined and agreed upon and categorically different from 'the reached'. Yet it's a man-made construct, based on decades old sociological concepts from a simpler time, and has declining relevance amidst the migratory, multicultural, globalizing megatrends of today's world. Despite the above I still use the term 'unreached' at certain times and in certain contexts. It's a simple, striking and relatively well-understood term to express something significant, and that's rare in missiology (and not easy to replace). I'm not trying to pull anything down here. But I think if we do use such terms, let's do so with a good dose of humility, missiological understanding, self-awareness and recognition of these (and many more) issues involved. And let's not use the term as part of a 'guilt-trip missiology'. What do you think?

From @thenavigators 7 travel hacks for spending time with God when you travel.navigators.org/resource/trave…