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"The
LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind
the thoughts" (I Chron. 28:9 NIV).
It's
pretty astounding that search engines can instantly go out and
scan millions of web sites around the world and bring back the
information we are looking for. True, it is incredible. But putting
things into perspective, all the web pages in the world are still
less than 3 billion. In other words, God is searching twice as
many people as the your browser searches web pages. He isn't just
combing through pages of stale data, He is researching heart history,
working out plans, giving guidance, and individualized instruction
for 6.5 billion breathing changing people. The web is a wimp in
comparison to God. Most of all, God cares; the web just performs.
As
you start digging into mission research remember, God does His "research" for
the sake of saving real people. Do your research with that "real
people" mentality, too. Don't get lost in the numbers and the cool
graphics; the bottom line is, "Is this changing anybody's life?"
Today,
there are hundreds if not thousands of web sites featuring missions.
To list them here would be redundant. With some time, creativity
and GOOGLE you
can find your own resources. To save you a bit of time, here are
a just a handful of helpful sites.
| William
Carey Library |
This
is the largest "missions bookstore" in existence. From basic
mission stories to courses in anthropology, you can find it
here. |
| Voice
of the Martyrs |
Posters,
clothing, books, and video seminars. The real life stories
of modern martyrs and Christian persecution are vivid pictures
that are faith-strengthening supplements to any growing Christian's
reading spectrum. |
| Intervarsity
/ Urbana |
A
wide variety of books on mission subjects ranging from missionary
biographies to understanding Buddhism to building bridges to
the worlds most poor. |
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| FACTS
and MAPS |
| Global
Mapping International |
A
plethora of excellent mission maps and statistics on different
CD's, posters, and books describing the needs and peoples of
the 10/40 window. |
| Unreached
People Groups Bethany Prayer Profiles |
Learn
about who is yet to be reached, what are their lives like,
what are their beliefs, and what you can be praying for them
about. |
| Mission
Mobilizer Database Caleb Project |
How
can you get others excited about missions? Caleb Project has
assembled everything from dramas to how to conduct a mission
conference to how to get your senior pastor interested in missions.
All kinds of usable information on missions: |
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| NEWS |
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| MisLinks |
Want
to print out news articles from different parts of the world?
Here are over 100 news sites from different countries. |
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| PRAYER |
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| Global
Prayer Digest |
The Global
Prayer Digest is a key tool in a movement to help fulfill Christ's
commission to make disciples of all the peoples of the earth.
This movement involves a daily discipline of learning, praying,
and giving to help reach the world's nearly 10,000 ureached
people groups. Unreached peoples are those groups which do
not yet have a strong church in their own cultural and social
setting. |
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| RESEARCH |
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| Global
Mapping International |
Understanding
the problems, the people, and the possibilities. Absolutely
the best complete list of mission research links on the web. |
| Ethnologue |
The
gospel travels through language. To learn how Adventist Frontier
Missions and other missionary organizations lay plans for reaching
the over 7000 languages and the tens of thousands of dialects
in the world. This site is made by the famous Wycliffe Bible
translators to help us understand the relationship of different
languages. |
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| VIDEOS |
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| Adventist
Frontier Missions |
A
powerful library of 14 real life 30 minute movies about the
lives of AFM missionaries and the risk and reward of frontier
mission work. Featuring the unique culture and beliefs of the
tribes and people from the missionaries' labor. |
| Kids
Around the World |
Six
videos and curriculum supplements that feature activities,
games, maps, craft projects, language learning about fascinating
lives of children in the 10/40 window. |
| Mission
Videos |
A
general list of mission-oriented videos. |
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