Message Magazine Online - Vol. 56, No. 03, Summer 2008

In This Issue

• Editorial
  Angela Shuff
• Canadian Editorial
  David W. Smith
• The Ecology of Church Planting
  ABWE's Core Ministries Institute Training Team
• Living Out Wisdom Literature in Middle Eastern Culture
  Susan Schmidt, Middle East
• Consider the Joy
  Bill Commons, Strategic Initiative and Research
• Culture Shock Revisited
  A. W., South Asia
• A Willing Sacrifice
  Pauline Stevens, with her sisters Dr. Beulah Hall and Mrs. Laura Anne Cebulak
• Dig Your Roots Deep–But Where?
  Kimberly Rae
• Deep in Liberia, People Have Never Heard
  Keith Lippy, Liberia
• Training a Special People Group
  Bill Amstutz, President, Shepherds Ministries
• CLIPS
• Adapting to Retirement
  Spence W. Jackson
• Kids Can Help Start Churches, Too!
  Jim Cook, ABWE Next Generation Ministries
• Invest in Training Missionaries for Cross-Cultural Ministry
• Focal Point
  Michael G. Loftis, President, ABWE International

Invest in Training Missionaries for Cross-Cultural Ministry

ABWE’s annual Essential Missions Components training is designed to prepare missionaries for cross-cultural church planting. One of the unique experiences of this week of training is the participation of invited pastors and other leaders from various cultures where ABWE missionaries serve. These national trainers impart insights and wisdom on how to reach their cultures for Christ. The cost of bringing these partners to Harrisburg is great, but the value of the results in the lives and ministries of both the participating missionaries and the pastors is incalculable.

Would you be willing to help offset the costs for these trainers to come to the next EMC training at the ABWE Headquarters in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? This is an investment in effective cross-cultural church planting around the world.

Give at www.abwe.org/give or call Donor Services at (717) 774-7000.
If sending gifts by mail, mark them “EMC Trainers.”