‘We wanted to redeem technology – especially mobile phones – to reach the world with the gospel and see God’s kingdom grow across the globe’. Read Ed and Kate’s story.
Mental health is a familiar term to us all now, being particularly spoken about during this pandemic. We can see evidence of emotional distress around us in the community and our church family is not immune to these pressures. Mary Hodson suggests some ways to care for your mission workers.
We have always got to be careful with generalisations, yet it’s probably fair to say that when it comes to identifying new gospel workers, many churches are pretty passive.
In Luke 7 we read of a Roman centurion in Capernaum whom the Jewish elders warmly commended to Jesus. They told him, “He loves our nation and has built our Synagogue.” Jesus commended the man’s faith and healed his servant. This incident provides the inspiration for UFM’s Operation Centurion ministry.
The latest data from UNESCO states that there are 750 million adults worldwide who lack basic literacy skills*. How then can we make God’s Word available to these people?
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
