You don’t become a missionary by raising money and flying to a foreign country. You do it by being obedient to God. Tell people about Jesus where you live. Get out of your comfort zone. Sell something precious and apply it to your debts. Make a sacrifice. Develop better friendships. There is an old saying: “Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” While this is not to be taken literally in this sense, (please, don’t start wearing the national garb of the country you want to go to just yet). However, somewhere in the process, we have to make a conscious decision that there is no going back.
Dan and Joy West have had a rich missionary career, yet at a time in their career when they might be tempted to stay in their comfort zone, Dan and Joy are starting over.
More than 30 years ago, the last evangelical church in the municipality of Bergen, Netherlands, closed its doors, leaving no evangelical witness for two generations. But a small yet passionate group of Christians believed God for a miracle in their community.
For most of his life, one of missionary Rich McLane’s passions has been hunting. His wife Lori enjoys playing the trumpet. When they became missionary church planters in Poland years ago, who would have guessed these passions would converge to reach more than 120,000 hunters throughout the country?
Newly arrived in Denmark, Matt and Natalie Herschberg, are AGWM Missionary Associates serving with campus ministries, Students for Christ. They recently helped host a short-term student team from the University of Minnesota in Duluth which came to serve over the spring break. This was in cooperation with KFS, a Danish community for students all over Denmark which holds and annual event called STORY.
A huge part of our mission is to love our community holistically, meaning we want to show Christ’s love by attending to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of our community. We have been meeting at our own ‘CAFÉ’ always with the plan of finding a permanent space, another dream that seemed distant. But our God is a God of miracles!
In 2012, the Assemblies of God national church in Albania had the goal of planting five new churches and doubling the number of believers in the fellowship in five years. AGWM personnel Kurt Plagenhoef states that a recent survey of the churches was done which revealed that much more is happening in church planting than formerly thought.
