"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.