Resources by Topic: Missions

When Isaiah says that God “exalts himself to show mercy to you” (Isaiah 30:18, RSV), he teaches us that one mark of great, self-sufficient poise is the willingness to get down low with the weak. 

Randy Alcorn compares Christianity in America with Christianity in China and inspires readers to see heaven, not earth, as their home.

Two dedicated servants of the Lord, JESUS film workers, lost their lives for the sake of Christ.

We are in contact with church and mission agencies all over the world and the one thing they all have in common is that they need workers.

In 1900, during the Boxer Uprising, over 230 western missionaries and 32,000 Chinese Christians were killed.

In 1994 two Americans answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics (based on biblical principles) in the public schools. 

Biblical teachings on justice aim not only at punishment for crime but also at restoration of the community.

On August 17th 1999, at approximately 3:15 a.m., the small town of Izmit, Turkey, and the province surrounding, sustained one of the worst disasters in human history.

Elisabeth Elliot talks about cross-bearing Christianity, the immaterial wealth of her mission heritage, and what has given her strength in the face of adversity.

Fifty Christian agencies in Great Britain sought to rescue thousands of orphaned boys and girls on the streets and in work houses from the years 1870 to about 1920.

EPM had the privilege of participating financially in a children’s camp in Lusaka, Zambia in 1999.

Recently I called various relief, development and missions organizations to get some accurate information on the physical and spiritual needs in the world today.

If missions are not careful, they may become like the old empty cathedrals in Europe. Sidetracked, our main activities could become: caring for missionaries, building retirement homes, increasing allotments, upgrading insurance, and obtaining nicer offices instead of taking the Gospel to the masses.

USAID estimates there will be nearly three million orphans (2,886,000) in Malawi and Zambia by the end of 1999.