Planting Well

Producing the Dispatches from the Front series has been a joyful journey of learning-and then sharing what I've learned with others. During the filming of "Every Tribe" (the 9th episode in the series), I learned much about planting well--sowing the good seed of the Gospel among unreached people groups; seeing what Word-centered, indigenously-driven missions looks like; and then seeing those flourishing church plants multiply in depth and grow a missionary vision of their own. I also learned how to plant rice; but despite the best efforts of my enthusiastic teachers, I don't seem to have a future as a rice farmer!

Check out the trailer below. I'm eager to share the story next month with the release of "Every Tribe"!

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Pioneer missionary Samuel Zwemer wrote, “The kingdoms and governments of this world have frontiers that must not be crossed.” Then he added, “The Gospel of Jesus Christ knows no frontier. It never has been kept within bounds.” This border-crossing, boundless Gospel is the theme of Every Tribe. The latest episode of the Dispatches from the Front series is set in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos, where a patchwork of tribes lives—people groups long crushed by brutal dictators and enslaved to the worship of demons. But the Gospel is setting prisoners free! From the killing fields of Cambodia to the remote corners of Laos, this is an “every tribe, every tongue” story of first-generation believers, who are now singing for joy over their deliverance, loving the Word, and crossing borders to share the Good News that “never has been kept within bounds.”

Reckless Abandon by the Sea

This week marks the 150th anniversary of Hudson Taylor's Brighton Beach experience - one of the seminal events of the Gospel's advance in China and in the history of missions. The following video segment from No Regrets, No Retreat follows Hudson and Maria Taylor's journey from London to Brighton and recounts Taylor's moment of decision - his reckless abandon by the sea. Brighton was a tipping point in Hudson Taylor's life and ministry and a reminder that Christ continues to use Cross-bearers to shake the gates of hell and build His Church!

In honor of this anniversary, Tim Challies has posted my article Beginning With Impossible. Visit challies.com to read this story of Gospel advance. 

TK