God is doing amazing things in the Muslim world! Sending out a church-based team into their world would provide your congregation with a unique opportunity to work together towards advancing God’s kingdom.
Every nation, one location; that’s how some of us have learned to think about Europe. When we focus on Europe we cannot ignore the over 53 million Muslims living within its borders. And beginning tomorrow these Europeans will join in observing Ramadan with other Muslims from around the world.
The following is a reprint of a [...]
It might not be your typical “missions trip” but a prayer hike into the woods with national Christian leaders and their friends on the journey toward faith in Christ has been one of the most important things we’ve done so far.
During his time back in the U.S., artist and GEM field worker Jason found himself getting involved with a community house in a place called Binghampton, one of the poorest communities in Memphis, Tennessee. One of his friends is Jamin, an art teacher at an inner-city school in Binghampton. Jamin lives in a house that [...]
A group of two teams came to Lille recently to help in two different projects: church building renovation and local evangelism among young adults. Both have stirred a desire to ask other teams to consider coming.
With the church building renovation, we hope the building will be modernized and more accessible when we have various events.A [...]
After attending INTERSECT 2010, the sales manager of one of the finest hotels in the country got excited. He’s not only an influential businessman in Bulgaria. He’s also a follower of Christ. Others like him were in attendance from other towns and even a few from Macedonia.
This past week, ten people in two teams began their “treks” across Europe by working with street kids, prayer walking, encouraging believers, talking about their journeys with Jesus and learning from European Christians whose faith has been shaped through years of struggle, persecution (which even included interrogation) and spiritual battle.
I finally got the chance to spend some time with Joe Donnelly, director of the Anchorage Community Project in Dublin. As I chained my motorcycle to a streetlight in front of the place, I wondered if the bike would still be there when our time was over. In the shadow of the docklands, Ringsend is [...]
Hope finds a new “voice” in Belarus
GemStone Media was invited to invest time and skills to train Christ followers in the art of “digital story telling” in one of the last communist states of the former Soviet Union. 9 people attended the training. The short video* (above) is the product of a weekend Video Training [...]
Paul Burke is helping begin new churches among the Roma Gypsy community in Lille, France. But he’s not your typical GEM missionary. In fact technically he’s not even a GEM missionary at all. He’s a pastor of a church in Canada.
Paul didn’t come to Lille to work with gypsies. He was part of a short [...]
