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U of M Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors & Staff

We just got home from our leader’s retreat!  We had about 55 students from the U of M come together to talk about vision for how to love, serve, and come alongside the people on our campus.  We get a glimpse of what it meant to be a disciple of Jesus after his death when his disciples set out on a mission to make this amazing gift of salvation through Christ known in the cities and contexts in which they were living.  Continue reading

Team,

It’s amazing to see the gospel going forth to all the nations. I want to train up men that would be the “goers” for world evangelism!

This message was from our pastor Tom Steller –

The Kachin are a “christianized people” with an amazing history and so many wonderful evidences of grace and God’s preservation.  But there is much nominalism and shallow understanding of the Gospel among so many of them.  Bethlehem continues to have an open door to influence them.  God helped me as I preached to over 10,000 Kachin on Sunday (see photo).  I challenged them to remain faithful to the Scriptures which took Ola Hanson 38 years to translate for them.

One of the highlights was seeing 2,899 Kachin get baptized!  It was incredible to see, and perplexing at the same time.  How many really understood what was happening?  It’s dangerous to be part of a culture that says, “To be Kachin is to be Christian.” Aids and alcoholism is a scourge to many.  But there is a fervent devotion to Christ among a significant number.  They are strategically positioned to reach many unreached peoples in India and China as well as the millions of Burmese Buddhists in their own country.

One of the joys I had was to meet with the man who has devoted countless hours to translating Grudem’s Systematic Theology into Kachin (see attached picture).  He’s finished with the first draft (all hand written). Now he will enter it into the computer and prepare it for publication.  Pray that he doesn’t lose this one and only copy!  Theological books in Kachin are very rare. So this book has the potential of filling a huge void.

where are we at with this command from Jesus today?

check out a great web resource for tracking the progress of the gospel at : www.joshuaproject.net