Mypreparing blog

Imagine Church Planting in Cambodia

In just a few weeks, a new evangelistic thrust with WEC in Siam Reap grew from scratch to a weekly meeting of over a dozen people, of which six adults were baptised. How did it happen?

Luis Santos and his family are doing church planting alongside some other WEC missionaries who have started a school amongst the poor called the ‘Bridge of Hope’. Luis and the Cambodian teachers shared their testimonies with some of the parents and invited them to come back the following week if they wanted to hear more about God.

A tale of 2 churches

I've been privileged to attend 2 church services of other cultures in the last month - one in Australia & another overseas. I felt reasonably comfortable in one of them, and reasonably uncomfortable in another. Can you guess why?

Imagine your Church being blessed

We’ve heard about ways of sharing Jesus with people of other faiths and cultures here in Australia. One thing that excites me is that getting people involved in local cross-cultural mission like this in Australia also has a flow-on effect for churches here.

Don't Stretch, Yawn or Lick your fingers

What's your problem? Why are you looking at me? All I did was have a stretch, yawn and lick my fingers after that tasty meal...

What's for you on the door of your loo?

Here's a photo that is pretty common in homes across Australia - Bible verses on the back door of the toilet. It helps a lot of people to be positive and memorise Scripture from somewhere we spend time.

Is it that hard? A story of cross-cultural ministry in Australia

Alisha had just moved in. Her community consisted of a minority Muslim people group in Sydney. However she did not even seem to fit into her own community and so stayed at home, longing to get out and see this brave new world.

Imagine being the good Samaritan: Who would you help today?

A man once asked, “Who is my neighbour?”. Jesus answered with a story. By definition, the neighbour was both the man who needed help and the Samaritan that came across his path and gave help.
Almost six million migrants, born in over 200 countries, live as your and my neighbours in Australia. Many need help, and we should be a good neighbour to them. But how?

Worldview students go out into the world

“Church Planting Practicum” is an 8-week study module during which students spend five weeks in a cross-cultural church planting team. It’s an opportunity for them to evaluate their own abilities and consider their calling to cross-cultural ministry.
This year five students headed overseas to different corners of the world, joining existing church planting teams for a first-hand missionary experience.

Imagine Crossing cultures

(From an Australian who recently undertook a short-term trip to China.)

“There was a huge divide between how I understood reason and logic and how that was expressed in China. For example, I was instantly confronted with the way order was expressed when travelling on the roads. What I initially saw as disorder and chaos eventually came to be properly understood as simply a difference in the expression of their order. “

Imagine Millions of Unreached

China. Where do you start? 9.5 million square kilometres, around 1.5 billion people and close to 500 distinct ethnic groups. More Christians are detained in China than in any other country, and followers of Jesus have faced harsh and widespread persecution. Is there any hope?

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