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Honouring the past as we look to the future

This week Ruairidh MacLean, Area Director in Scotland, told us of a lady who had been a UFM supporter for ‘quite some time.’ Miss Buchanan, 106, had supported UFM since its inception in 1931!

Supporting TCKs with change, grief and loss

Often the inevitable changes we experience in our lives are for good and positive reasons, but change in whatever form it takes involves unknowns and having to learn new things.

Characteristics of a Sending Church: Bible Study Part 2

This article is part of a series of Bible studies looking at some characteristics of sending and supporting churches. If you are a church leader, feel free to use these in your church.

We’re developing our work in the USA

In summer 2020, we reported in 4 Corners on the growth of UFM Worldwide USA. We asked you to pray with us for God’s wisdom as we sought to support the growing work.

Coping with multilingualism in TCK families

Raising your child in a multilingual setting can be confusing, with lots of conflicting advice about what language you should speak to your child in.

Helping TCKs cope with transition

Transitions are a normal part of human experience, but for TCKs and their families they tend to happen quite often and be major cross cultural transitions.

UFM USA is growing

UFM in the USA (UFM Worldwide (USA)) was first established in August 2013 with an office in Birmingham, Alabama. The OneHundredFold team had become part of UFM in 2012, and we needed to provide the services our mission workers who are American citizens required.

I wasn’t cut out for mission

‘Would you ever consider going abroad to be, you know, ... a missionary?’ Two years ago, if you had challenged with me with that question, I would probably have just laughed.

Is short-term mission worth it?

It costs a lot to send short-term workers overseas. But is it worth it? Would the money be better spent on long-term mission workers or supporting national workers?

What’s it like … in lockdown?

Heledd Job writes from Italy

Our Christian Union was suddenly empty

Six of us were huddled over a blank canvas. One of us had stayed up late the night before to sketch a basic calendar for the year ahead. Every little box for every day of the year represented an opportunity – an opportunity to do our job and to reach the campus for Christ.

Holding Our Nerve

In Rico Tice’s book ‘Honest Evangelism,’ he talks about ‘the pain line’, the point in the conversation where we move from topics that are socially acceptable – the sport, home improvements or our next holiday – and into territory that’s much less comfortable: to speak about our faith in Jesus.

Identifying New Workers

We want men and women who are called by God and have had that call confirmed by their church family to be accepted as part of the UFM family.

Being a Supportive Sending Church

In UFM, we believe God calls people like you and me, backed by the local church, to bring the good news of Jesus to all four corners of the world.

Ben and Liz Griffin

Two-thirds of the world’s population have mobile devices. In Burkina Faso, 14 million (out of 20 million) have mobile phones. How can we take advantage and make the message mobile?

What’s it Like … When your Parents are Mission Workers?

Last year, the number of UFM children reached almost 160! The term Third Culture Kid (TCK) has been coined to describe children who spend some of their formative years outside their parents’ culture. They build relationships with both cultures, without fully owning either, and often identify most with other TCKs. This is one reason children in the UFM family love our Summer Conference. They feel they have met their ‘own tribe’!

No Weapon Fashioned Against You Shall Succeed

Hindu mobs wielded rods, tridents, swords, guns, kerosene and even bottles of acid. Adorned with Hindu militant headbands, they shouted slogans such as, “Jai shri Ram!”, (Victory to Ram, the Hindu god) and “Jai bajrang bali!”, a tribute to another Hindu deity.

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