Prayer can penetrate anywhere. Long before we enter the valleys of Nepal prayer can be doing a concrete work in laying the foundations for the future kingdom. . . . When we have prepared the way with the Spirit of God in prayer, he will answer those very prayers in permitting us to occupy Nepal.
Gordon [...]
Category Archives: Global South
Why Nepal?
The kingdom comes to Nepal
John B shares some great news out of Nepal.
Until recently Nepal was the world’s only Hindu kingdom. The mighty Himalayas and the fact that Nepal was a closed land until the middle of the twentieth century enticed many, but from 1881 to 1925 only 153 Europeans are known to have visited Nepal and none became [...]
God’s option for the poor
Researchers Donald Miller and Tetsunao Yamamori went looking for fast growing churches in the developing world addressing social needs in their community. The churches had to be led and funded indigenously. No foreign money or leadership.
Is it any surprise that 85% of the churches that fitted the criteria were Pentecostal or charismatic?
Their conclusion after a [...]
Good news out of Africa
This will make your day. It made mine.
In December, Times columnist , Matthew Parris, returned to Africa after 45 years absence. He was there to report on The Times Christmas Appeal which was devoted to providing clean water for rural communities.
Listen to what he says about the impact of Christianity in Africa. Did I mention [...]
Pentecostal expansion: Reasons 1-3
We’re in the month that celebrates 100 years since the Asuza Street revival that launched Pentecostalism as a movement. Towards a Pentecostal Missiology for the Majority World by Allan Anderson does a great job of unpacking what it is about Pentecostalism that makes it such a dynamic Christian movement. Perhaps the 20th Century’s most successful [...]
Christianity moves South
“As I travel, I have observed a pattern, a strange historical phenomenon of God ‘moving’ geographically from the Middle East, to Europe to North America to the developing world. My theory is this: God goes where he is wanted.”
Philip Yancey
For the last five hundred years the story of Christianity has been bound up [...]
