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Editor’s Note: This article (c) 2008 by the U.S. Center for World Mission and is reprinted with permission of the Global Prayer Digest. To subscribe to this daily prayer update for unreached people groups, you may send an email to subscribe to: subscribe-brigada-pubs-globalprayerdiges@hub.xc.org
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Editor’s Note: Click here to read the first installment of “When Random Acts Of Kindness Aren’t Enough”

ReformationUCC: It’s been said that the biggest problems in our society today revolve around the absence of the father in the home. How does New Commandment Men’s Ministry help address that issue? Do you have any examples, for instance [...]

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Editor’s Note: This is reprinted from the Vision New England website. Contact information follows if you wish to order the complete study from Vision New England. While the results reflect the New England region in particular, the summary of the results imply the findings are widely applicable in the US. One of the positive findings [...]

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We’ve all seen the bumper sticker: “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty”. Some of us have even considered this a “Christian” sentiment worthy of emulation. But Colorado based New Commandment Men’s Ministry is built on the premise that kind gestures cannot be equated with the love our Lord Jesus Christ calls us [...]

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Note: In the previous installments in this series of articles, here and here, Pastor David Runnion-Bareford discussed how to begin when there are only a few. In a follow up interview, he discussed more of the spiritual dynamics involved in this non-confrontational approach to moving historic churches forward. Some may read these suggestions though and [...]

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Editor’s Note: This is a follow up interview with Rev. David Runnion-Bareford on how historic churches can, with God’s help, be renewed to vital mission and ministry. Pastor David is the Executive Director of Biblical Witness Fellowship, a church consultant, and a member of ReformationUCC’s Board of Reference. To read article that prompted this [...]

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Editor’s Note: This continues a series of articles on Congregational Missions (Click to see more articles on this theme!)
(c) 2008 Phil Corr, Ph.D.
On a March day in 2000 I gripped a lever, set my legs, and pulled back. I had just “printed” a page of Hawaiian alphabet material. I was visiting the mission [...]

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Editor’s Note: Rev. David Runnion-Bareford has extensive experience in mainline church renewal. He is the President of the Association for Church Renewal. ReformationUCC.org requested an interview to follow up on this article which originally appeared in the Faithful and Loving Newsletter. Many churches have no idea where to begin. Here, a prescription for servanthood is [...]

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“Missional” is the latest buzz word describing what churches ought to “be”. At best it describes an outward focused attitude that’s focused on promoting Christ’s kingdom instead of maintaining institutional survival at any cost.
Moving from theory to action is where things get dicey. Search the blogosphere and scan the most popular books for how [...]

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Editor’s Note: Gerry Charlotte Phelps offers an insightful article on the nature of the demographic problem facing the mainline church. It is the same one, essentially, faced by the West - creeping depopulation. The mainline church reflects the larger culture and is imploding. As we lose both our children and spiritual children, drastic - [...]

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