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     Building resilience through life’s trials
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    By OMF NZ
    In Church Planting, Mission, Prayer, Serving Asia Magazine, Serving Asia Magazine, Taiwan
    Posted 19 September 2018

    Building resilience through life’s trials

    By Simon Johnson Simon and Helen Johnson are in New Zealand on home assignment until the beginning of 2019. In this article, we asked Simon to reflect on the topic of resilience, and to discuss [...]

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     Foreign –> Familiar
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    By OMF NZ
    In Children and Youth, Church Planting, Featured Stories, Mission, Philippines, Serving Asia Magazine
    Posted 16 May 2018

    Foreign –> Familiar

    By Gemma Creasy   The New Arrival As I walk down the streets with crowds of people all around me speaking words unfamiliar to my ears, it all blurs together into background noise. Between those [...]

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     Reaching the Unreached
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    By OMF NZ
    In Church Planting, Discipleship, Evangelism, Featured Stories, God at Work, Mission, Serving Asia Magazine
    Posted 27 July 2017

    Reaching the Unreached

    By Ailsa Barker Wirawan. A testimony of ministry to an unreached people on the east coast of SE Asia, pioneered by a local church and now part of a national missionary organization. It was a [...]

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     Missionary Insight: The Johnsons in Taiwan
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    By OMF NZ
    In Church Planting, Featured Stories, God at Work, Mission, Prayer Points, Taiwan
    Posted 1 June 2017

    Missionary Insight: The Johnsons in Taiwan

    By Simon and Helen Johnson “I’ll make you a contract,” Yong I, one of our new believers, said to her husband Kevin. “If you want to keep worshipping your idols in our shop, then you have to come [...]

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     Pioneering with Pizza
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    By OMF NZ
    In Church Planting, Evangelism, Featured Stories, God at Work
    Posted 13 April 2017

    Pioneering with Pizza

    By Faye Imagine an area the size of New Zealand with 47 million people living in it, many of whom live in villages separated by mountains and isolated through language.  Imagine those people [...]

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     Pioneering where there is no church
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    By OMF NZ
    In Church Planting, East Asia Insight, Featured Stories, God at Work, Mission, Prayer
    Posted 5 April 2017

    Pioneering where there is no church

    By Doug We are church planters. That means we seek to start a church where there is none, aiming to see its members reaching out to start other churches. The challenge is that the government of [...]

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    By Hudson
    In China, Church Planting, Hong Kong
    Posted 15 January 2014

    Living in a Material World

    “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, … For where your treasure [...]

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    By Hudson
    In China, Church Planting, Discipleship
    Posted 1 September 2013

    Observations of the Chinese Church in Transition

    Article featured in 2013 East Asia Insight Q3 The Chinese church continues to grow and respond to new challenges and opportunities in an ever-changing social landscape. But much work remains. [...]

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