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Communicating the Gospel Cross-Culturally: The Influence of World View and Cultural Values

Communicating the Gospel Cross Culturally Imagine yourself having a conversation with someone from Southeast Asia about Jesus Christ who is from a Buddhist background. Notice how one’s world view affects the way we perceive our reality, making the task of sharing faith more complicated than we might think. The Holy Spirit has a lot of layers…

ethneCITY: “REACHING THE CITIES, REACHING THE NATIONS”

For many years, the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, as well as other Great Commission Christian groups, have encouraged local churches to “embrace” unreached and unengaged people groups through prayer, short-term missions, and church planting. While that remains an important and valuable strategy, today’s diaspora expands the possibilities of reaching the unreached in…

A tool to connect with internationals.

Episode 50: Evangelism Toolbox – Perspective Cards – Collegiate Collective. If you’re looking for effective tools to engage students in spiritual conversations, Perspective Cards are it. The Cards include various topics for conversation starters which help students discover and/or discuss their own worldviews. It allows for a way to talk about the meaning and purpose of…

26 Jesus Stories to Share with Muslims

China, India, and South Korea may lead in the numbers of students studying in the United States, but the number of students from Saudi Arabia pursuing education in the US is gradually increasing over the years. Many may be on your campus. We will be featuring more resources to help share with Muslim students. Here are…

International Student Ministry – Valentine’s Banquet

“How this woman in Texas going through the most unimaginable pain feels led to encourage me through this season in my life and now this same truth passed onto the this student from Panama searching for hope in Christ—can you imagine what sorts of ears this good news might fall upon through Aniela?”