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Parachurch/Missions

Churches count on the support and ministries of thousands of Christian-based organizations and missions groups. Keep up with the parachurch and missions world right here.

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Diagnose your church’s health: Is the church both locally and globally minded?
Consulting with a church about caring for their neighbors, both at home and abroad, is a critical part of assessing church health. Dr. Chuck Lawless offers seven ways to determine where a church is most committed: locally or globally.

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Diagnose: Is the church reaching non-believers?
Dr. Chuck Lawless addresses the key question of outreach in this fifth article in a series dealing with questions to ask when consulting with a church.

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Marriage ministry must be intentional and holistic
Healthy marriage ministries develop ways to disciple married couples beginning before marriage and continuing after divorce. Preventing problems before they arise, dealing with issues in the heat of the moment, and supporting parishioners through the difficulties of divorce are all part of a holistic marriage ministry.

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Church missions efforts that transform lives
More church missions involvement means stepping away from relief and toward development. Efforts aimed at transforming a community from within have proven most successful.

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Swallowing short-term missions holistically
Sometimes short-term mission trips don’t meet any needs on the field. Part one of this series examined how often trips are devoted only to the spiritual growth of a Christian traveler, when a mutually edifying experience for both the traveler and field missionary would be more effective—making disciples of both. Considering the failures of short-term mission trips, both practically and philosophically, should churches abandon them altogether?

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26 Oct 2004	Pastor dispatches evangelists to police crime-ridden neighborhood
26 Oct 2004	Protestant evangelists dent Catholic population in Latin America
21 Oct 2004	Afghanistan election may open door to more missions work
20 Oct 2004	Tenn. church aims to reach billions in India
19 Oct 2004	City on a Hill uses donated hospital to provide holistic ministry for community
18 Oct 2004	Church bells ring in Baghdad after bombings
15 Oct 2004	More Iraqi Christians killed, mass exodus continues
15 Oct 2004	New study reveals 78 percent of U.S. Clergy agree to inter-faith cooperation
13 Oct 2004	Evangelicalism loses momentum in Europe
12 Oct 2004	New study highlights plight of working poor
11 Oct 2004	Mission outreach begins with Penn. pastor, coffee can collection
08 Oct 2004	Lutherans credit more missionaries to young adults' global vision, service
08 Oct 2004	Billy Graham plans L.A., N.Y.C. crusades after K.C.
07 Oct 2004	Faith groups press Bush, Kerry on U.S. poverty, healthcare
06 Oct 2004	Lutherans exceed goal in 'fairly traded' coffee campaign
06 Oct 2004	T.D. Jakes' film 'Woman Thou Art Loosed' hits theaters
05 Oct 2004	Utah church reaches out to community
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