India’s Missionaries Committed To Win The Lost At Any Cost Condensed from updates written by PG and Aby Vargis edited by Cristi Winkler Every year, IET (India Evangelical Team) plants several hundred pioneer churches in distant villages and unreached tribes. In 2012 IET planted 611 new churches in the far north of India, where persecution is stronger than the south. Once a congregation is birthed in an unreached tribe, it soon becomes strategic to build a ‘house of God’ for the congregation. A separate ‘house of God’ becomes critical in establishing the pioneer work. Why is a separate structure, even though it may be a tin roofed shed, important? There are several contextual, legal, and strategic reasons. Let me share some: First, a church building creates a feeling of stability for the new believers. In most of Asia, particularly in South Asia, a sacred place of worship has proven to be an important element in establishing a new and respectful house of worship. We have repeatedly seen that the Christian faith establishes itself faster and spreads quicker when having a ‘house of God’ as part of the strategy. This is perhaps the most important element for me; I want to see the product of our energies and investments last till Christ returns. Second, a separate structure accelerates financial self-sufficiency in a village church. Recently we found that in those villages where we constructed a simple tin roofed prayer shed, the congregation achieved at least 25% financial self-sufficiency within few months. Read more > | | | |
 Grace Controversy: From Jorge Parrott, Missions Director: There has been a lot of talk of ‘ultimate reconciliation’ or ’universalism’ in churches around the world. The subject of grace is one we must handle with utmost care as shepherds over our flocks. This is a very powerful and foundational message for our time and for you as pastors and missionary leaders in many nations. Please click here to listen to Rick Joyner's talk on the " Grace Controversy". We believe you will be blessed by this timely word. | |  Exciting Frontline News From the Vineyards of the Lord January 2013 by Jorge Parrott, MorningStar/CM Missions Director Cuba:
Native Evangelist Friend Allowed To Minister in Maximum Security Prison Our dear MS/CMM friend and MSU College of Theology Doctoral student, who is truly an apostolic leader in this nation, recently played baseball with the prisoners and then began to preach loudly in the center of the prison yard. A prison official started to shut it down, but the spirit of the Lord won out. As our friend, (whose name we cannot mention) shared the love of Jesus silence fell over the entire prison. Read more > | |  African Royal Priesthood by Jorge Parrott
Often our unenlightened world view can be shattered as a mere carnal misconception once the Lord opens our eyes to more of his heavenly reality. In 2 Cor. 5:17 (KJV) we read “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things become new”. In seeking to know more of God’s heart for the nations through deepening relationships with remarkable apostolic leaders around the world God has always exceeded my expectations. Read more > | | |
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