getAHEAD Prayer Requests – Please pray that the Lord would provide faithful tutors to invest in the kids and that the Lord would bless those relationships and make them long-term mentoring opportunities – Please pray that the Lord would give us wisdom in dealing with the discipline issues that arise with the kids and wisdom…

Africa’s Hot Spots 1 The Great Lakes War. This became Africa’s first major international conflict a) African and international peacemakers b) The warring factions and their leaders c) The millions of refugees d) Recovery through repentance of perpetrators, justice for the offended, forgiveness given and received and the long process of reconstruction for ruined lives,…

SPRINGS OF GRACE VISION MESSAGE for 2010 1) Diligently promote among Springs of Grace an awareness of the need in our city and world. (Luke 10 “Parable of Good Samaritan”; Luke 14) Hopelessness, poverty, human trafficking, sexual perversion; generational patterns of violence, drugs, family disintegration; educational crisis, racial prejudice and discrimination; absence of biblical gospel,…

Africa Stats •Population of Africa – 997,260,873 •Percentage of Evangelicals – 14.8% •Total number of Countries – 58 •Number of Restricted Countries – 12 •Total number of People Groups – 3,124 •Number of Unreached People Groups – 1,977 Africa is one of the most diverse continents with a variety of languages, cultures, peoples, religions, and…

Africa’s Hot Spots These warrant passionate prayer: 1 The Great Lakes War. This became Africa’s first major international conflict. Tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples in Rwanda and Burundi have led to civil wars and periodic genocidal massacres over the past four decades. The Rwanda genocide of 1994 triggered a chain reaction of war…

Please plan on participating in our Week of Prayer at Springs of Grace (January 10th-17th). This is an important step in our living out the vision God has given us for 2010. It is a reflection of our commitment to be dependent upon the Holy Spirit instead of dependent upon ourselves. It will testify to…

< prev January 9 The Great Commission and the Unfinished Task The Lord Jesus Christ gave His Church clear instructions in His resurrection ministry: · The evangelistic challenge in Mark 16:15 · The discipling/church planting challenge in Matthew 28:18-20 · The teaching challenge of Luke 24 · The missions challenge of John 20:21 · The…

Challenges for Prayer 1 Many of the least-reached are hedged in by political, religious, social and spiritual barriers, but they need cross-cultural gospel input from workers called of God 2 Relatively few of these 3,500 peoples have no known Christians among them, but in most they constitute a small minority — on average 1.2% of…

January 7 next > The Unfinished Task — The World’s Peoples It was only during the 1990s that a reasonably complete listing of the world’s peoples and languages was developed Here is a summary of our present assessment of the least reached peoples Over 90% of all the least-reached peoples on earth either live within…

Adoption as Basic Christianity Steve Burchett James would be surprised that we now have what some have called an “adoption movement” in our country. When he wrote, “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress” (James 1:27), he was writing about…