Casas-iglesia en la República Dominicana

Félix Abreu, de dieciocho años, está sentado, embelesado por las palabras de su profesor de Biblia. Es como si le presentaran a Jesús de nuevo. Apenas puede seguir el ritmo. ¿Cómo es posible que este profesor sólo lleve dos años en un seminario evangélico? Félix pasó cuatro años en...

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Ministrar en Una de las Reservas más Peligrosas de Estados Unidos

Wind River, Wyoming, es una reserva con gente increíble, azotada por dos problemas desgarradores: el poscolonialismo y la metanfetamina. Es la quinta mayor reserva de nativos americanos por población. Casi 27.000 personas viven en la reserva, y alrededor de 12.000 pertenecen a las tribus Arapaho del Norte y Shoshone del Este. La comunidad tiene una horrible historia colonial. En...

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Dar la palabra a los sin voz

"¿Conoce a alguien sordo en esta aldea?". Es una pregunta que Jessie y su equipo hacen regularmente en las zonas rurales de Honduras. La persona de la puerta les habla de un señor sordo que vive con sus padres y les da indicaciones para encontrar su casa. "¿Sabe cómo se llama?" Jessie también pregunta....

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La Pascua: Reaccionar ante la Resurrección

Juan 20:2. María va al sepulcro y ve que está vacío. Corre a ver a Simón Pedro y al otro discípulo Juan, el discípulo a quien Jesús amaba, el discípulo que nunca usaba su propio nombre, y les dice: "Se han llevado al Señor del sepulcro y no sabemos dónde lo han puesto." Es increíble...

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Viernes Santo: Dios del Tercer Día

  Hay muchas cosas hermosas en la historia de la Pascua que comienza en este día oscuro y triste que llamamos Viernes Santo, y una de las mejores es que se trata de una historia de tres días. A lo largo de la Biblia hay muchas historias que se pueden agrupar por el número de días que pasan en la historia....

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Domingo de Ramos: ¡Mirad a Dios!

Este domingo se celebra la entrada triunfal de Jesús. Se describe en los cuatro relatos evangélicos. Lo miramos y decimos: "¡Vaya! ¡Mirad cómo agitan las palmas y gritan hosanna! Le dan la bienvenida como rey". Lucas 19:41 dice: "Cuando se acercaban a Jerusalén, vio la ciudad de frente y comenzó...

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Desafiar a estudiantes de todas las creencias

"Me convierto al mormonismo". El corazón de Bailey Palmer se hunde en el suelo. Apenas pudo reconocer a Jeremy*. Jeremy llegó a Campus Ambassadors como un nuevo cristiano, listo para ser discipulado. Era curioso y estaba entusiasmado, profundizando en la palabra de Dios con Bailey cada semana. "¿Son los tatuajes un pecado? ¿Y la marihuana?", preguntaba. Quería...

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Ministrando a Estudiantes Internacionales

"En el cristianismo, ¿pueden un novio y su novia acostarse antes de casarse?". Los ojos de Ahmed son sinceros. Nunca ha conocido a un cristiano y tiene muchas preguntas. Steven Jones niega con la cabeza. "No. El cristianismo enseña que el sexo es sólo para el matrimonio". La confusión pinta la cara de Ahmed. "Pero hay muchos estadounidenses que viven juntos o tienen hijos,...

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Educating Mexico’s Next Ministry Leaders

“Mama?” Ramon’s mother looks up from her sewing. She’s sitting on the step of their front door. “Yes, mijo.” “Who made everything?” Ramon was only in six years old, but he was already pondering life’s biggest questions. How did man come to be? Is there a creator? “God did,” his mother replies. She points to…

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Urgent Prayer for Ukrainian Missionaries

We are asking for prayer for our Ukrainian missionaries, Alexander and Svetlana Moseychuk. At 4 a.m. this morning, Thursday February 24th, Russia invaded Ukraine. Alexander reports that Russian rockets have attacked many Ukrainian cities and airports. On the front lines, over fifty people have already died. Alexander’s church and home is in Bakhmut, around 12 miles away…

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Bringing Jesus to the Native Honduran Mountain Communities

The light from the projector flickers on the enchanted villagers’ faces. They’re huddled close together, sitting outside on the grass or in chairs. Many of the communities in the Honduran mountains don’t have electricity, so an animated movie brings much excitement. On the screen is a Man with a complexion like theirs. They gasp when…

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Ministerio Universitario en Hermosillo, México

"Los trabajos mejor pagados". Un joven estudiante de la Universidad de Sonora busca estas palabras en Google y pulsa enter en su teclado. Ni siquiera tuvo que completar su pensamiento: la frase apareció inmediatamente al teclear las palabras. Una plétora de resultados aparecen en su pantalla. Anestesista, médico general, ginecólogo. Todos con sueldos superiores a...

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Home Away From Home

On a cool night in Oregon, Karmann lounges back in a hammock, feeling the waves of heat from the firepit nearby warming her body. Several of her roommates sit relaxed around her. They munch on popcorn, sip coffee, crack jokes, and have serious conversations about life’s deepest questions. Her eyes land on Anna, a young…

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Getting College Students in Church

A young woman sits bundled up in a car, watching orange and red painted trees speed by through the window. She’s a freshman at the University at Buffalo and around six hours away from home. She got connected with Campus Ambassadors and started attending Bible studies and on-campus worship. Now, she’s being given a ride…

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From Joseph Smith to Jesus Christ

“I see you’re from Utah. Are you a Mormon?” Marv Cowan was checking into a motel in St. Louis when he was asked that question by the desk attendant, Bill. As a Christian missionary to the Latter-Day Saints (LDS), he was used to being the one who asked that question. “I used to be. I’m…

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A New Year’s Eve Note From Rick Miller

Happy New Year’s Eve! In case you missed our video yesterday, here’s a note from President Rick Miller.    As the year comes to close, it’s a great time for us to pause and reflect about 2021. It’s been another hard challenging year for many people and many of us. And yet in the midst…

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El poder de los misioneros indígenas

¿Sabías que los misioneros indígenas han aumentado la plantación de iglesias en un 300%? Cuando consideres cómo puedes apoyar a los misioneros el próximo año, piensa en los misioneros indígenas - misioneros camboyanos en Camboya, misioneros guatemaltecos en Guatemala, etc. Se trata de misioneros que son del país en el que están ministrando. Conocen el idioma, la cultura y se preocupan profundamente por...

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Highlights from 2021

Director of campus ministries, Ryan Miller, goes over all the incredible stories we’ve shared about our missionaries. If you’ve missed any, check them out below! Edwin Colon — the Recovery House of Worship Luis Magandi — Guatemala Paul Ameen — apologist to Muslims Ben Joseph — international students Mottel Baleston — Messianic Jew Radha Manickam…

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The Gift of Christmas

When we read the story of the Magi who visited Jesus after He was born, we learn three things about giving. Watch our director of campus ministries, Ryan Miller, share those three things and see how you can apply them this season! God bless you, Missions Door

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The Student With Blue Hair

Chris’s phone pinged. It was Madelyn. She was trying to find him amongst the sea of college students. He laughed. It shouldn’t be too hard to pick out the only senior citizen in the plaza. His metal chair grated against the concrete as he pushed it back and stood to be more visible. After the…

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Fleeing War and Meeting a Missionary

Hot bright flames pour out from a city bus, swallowed whole by molten-orange clouds of smoke. Steel drips like candlewax onto a floor of shattered glass. Clouds of gray climb to the sky, painting the vehicle an ash-black. It looks like a volcano, erupting and spewing lava right in the middle of an El Salvadorian…

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Helping Students Overcome Fear

Tyler Stibrich watched Conner sit down excitedly and spread out his notes. “Guys, this is gonna be awesome!” Conner exclaimed. “We’ll have the zombie team start here and the humans over there.” Pointing to the next page, he continued, “And I found these squirt guns that will work perfectly.” Their game board and snack bowls had been…

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Happy Thanksgiving from Missions Door!

Our director of campus ministries, Ryan Miller, has a special Thanksgiving message to share with you! We would love to hear directly from you what you’re most thankful for this year. From the bottom of our hearts, we wish you a happy Thanksgiving this weekend! God bless you, Missions Door  

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There at the Right Moments

Elizabeth Cernoia sighed. Her student had cancelled. Now she was at campus hours early for no reason. It wouldn’t make sense to go all the way back home and come back to Fitchburg State just a few hours later, so she’d just need to kill some time. She had some reading she needed to get…

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Sowing in Cambodia’s Killing Fields

Cambodia, 1973 – a young man wakes up in darkness. It’s three a.m. and he’s lying down on the hard floor of a semi-truck, enveloped by the pungent smell of raw fish. Radha Manickam is twenty years old and was kicked out of his father’s home a few months ago. He could put up with…

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So That Israel May Be Saved

Deep melodic Hebrew rings clearly in the room, the words of the prophet Jeremiah reaching every ear. A white canopy stretches overhead like a cloud, and underneath it a young man lifts his foot to stomp on a piece of cloth, crumpled on the floor. The glass carefully wrapped inside shatters with a thrilling pop,…

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The Scam That Led to Salvation

Ben Joseph was the son of a Hindu to Christian convert, born in Kerala, India. While he was raised going to church, he wasn’t interested in any spiritual matters. In the 70s, he began working for a businessman who assisted in sending people to the United States and Canada. The man promised Ben that he…

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The Muslim Apologist Overwhelmed by Christian Love

Ahmed was born in 1969 in Alexandria, Egypt to a devout Muslim family. In college, he co-founded the Voice of America radio station fan club. After serving in the military, he began preparing to be a Muslim apologist. Because of his work with Voice of America, he was given a grant to come to Washington,…

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To Reach Lost Boys Like Me

Luis Magandi and his family live in Melchor, Guatemala—a village on the Belizean border. They run a small pizza shop to help support their church-planting ministry. Last week, a young man named Estuardo walked into their shop hoping to find work. As they talked, Estuardo revealed to Luis that he had just left his home…

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Wonderful Time of the Year

  Listen to the story! As I was driving to the church, the Andy Williams’ song came on the radio. “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” I looked down the poverty-stricken streets full of mud and shacks made of wood scraps and cardboard. “Do the people of Valle Verde feel it’s the most…

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A God-Inspired Love for Big Cities

For as long as he can remember, Mark Marchak has always loved big cities—the people, the diversity, the hustle and bustle. It was a passion for him to visit major cities, and he was especially drawn to New York City where he grew up as a third generation American from Russian immigrants. Living through the…

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A Bridge between Brothers and Sisters in Christ

Along the highways and inside the towns, signs are posted to encourage people in the Navajo Nation to stay home. “STAY HOME, PROTECT YOUR FAMILY”, many of them say. Aggressive measures and curfews have taken place among the Navajo people to protect themselves from the virus. Even so, COVID-19 hit the nation’s rural people particularly…

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Following a Divine Path

The Lord has been carefully preparing him for the next step throughout his life. Now, at Missions Door, we are thrilled to announce John Benza as the newest member of our Strategic And Leadership Team (SALT). John comes from a background of quick acceleration in the business world as well as ministry. After faithfully following…

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Haz justicia, ama la misericordia, camina humildemente

Marv y Denise Robinson se conocieron mientras trabajaban juntos en una oficina, y cuando el Señor entrelazó el deseo de sus corazones de trabajar en un ministerio infantil, floreció su amor mutuo. Marv le propuso matrimonio en un ajetreado autobús en la ciudad de Nueva York, y en 1975 se casaron. Nombrados en 1980, Marv y Denise acaban de...

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COVID-19 Among Campus Ministry

Learning to adapt has been the anthem in many of our lives over the past few months, and universities are certainly not immune. Fervent efforts by Campus Ambassadors, such as missionary Devynn Brankel, have gone toward adapting to the new normal under the shroud of COVID-19 and encouraging university students to continue pursuing the Lord…

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Una nueva realidad

En un país ya paralizado por la devastación medioambiental y la agitación económica, los haitianos no están preparados para la desesperación que trae consigo Covid-19. Es un momento preocupante para la gente y la iglesia de todo el país. Pero con la desesperación viene una obstinada sed de esperanza, y voluntades que están dispuestas a rendirse a algo más grande,...

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Mentoring and Discipling Amid Crisis

While working in a soup kitchen one day in March, Lisa Brownlie overheard members of five families in line for food say they had lost their jobs that day. They are definitely not alone. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and tighten its grip on the United States, economists surveyed by The Wall Street…

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My Fruit Grows on Your Tree

Paul and Jean Biggers have a very pragmatic approach with their amazing ministry that’s been helping people find and follow Jesus for more than 20 years of service with Missions Door. “We intentionally make time and space to connect with people who do not know God, and in a non-threatening environment,” Paul says. An evening…

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Breaking the Silence with a Message of Hope

When Morgen Cash speaks of the men, women and children she ministers to, she refers to them as “our Beloveds.” She says it in a reverent tone with an earnestness so powerful it’s as though she’s wrapping her arms around each of them in an embrace of divine love and acceptance. She longs for them…

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Pastoreo de "cristianos ocultos" en EE.UU. y Japón

Mientras Phil Waters pasa a la semiretiro, sigue asombrado del poder de Dios al reflexionar sobre el éxito de una carrera dedicada al servicio de Cristo y de la población japonesa, tanto aquí como en el extranjero. Después de servir como misioneros en Japón durante poco menos de diez años, Phil y Sharyn Waters fueron nombrados por Missions Door...

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Advent—Expectantly Waiting for His Coming

“I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. . .Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”  Luke 2:10,14 Advent is about waiting—an expectant waiting for His coming.  Children can hardly wait to open the next window in the…

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Reaching the Unreachable Children

When you love someone, you will do anything for them. Jesus Christ puts that in our hearts. That belief is very much a part of the spiritual DNA that drives Patricia Bunk. “I have always loved children who don’t have anything,” says Patti, who became a missionary with Missions Door in 2011 and three years…

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El objetivo de plantar 100 iglesias en 2020

Como un poderoso ejército, se mueve la Iglesia de Dios. Hermanos, estamos pisando donde los santos han pisado. No estamos divididos. Somos un solo cuerpo, uno en la esperanza y en la doctrina, uno en la caridad. Esas palabras -la tercera estrofa del amado himno Adelante, soldados cristianos- vienen inmediatamente a la mente de Rigoberto...

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