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Paul Davis

Paul Davis is president of ABWE. Prior to his appointment in 2017, Paul served as senior pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Holland, Mich.

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10 Ways to Develop a Missions Culture in Your Church

If you want your church to engage in and be excited about missions, be encouraged: you can create a church culture that infuses missions into every facet of your ministry. Consider these ten guidelines we have learned through our years in ministry.

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8 Looming Dangers of Short-Term Missions Trips

Many valuable tools come with warning labels, such as “Handle with Care,” to highlight the dangers of misuse. As you plan your next short-term missions trip, consider these eight dangers and the tips we offer to minimize their impact on your trip.

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10 Ways Short-Term Missions Trips Provide Value

Healthy short-term missions trips can produce long-term impact on the field and transform participants. Consider the following 10 benefits.

Every Pastor’s Secret Advantage in Missions

Take heart: faithful pastors and missionaries achieve greatness not because of anything they bring to the biblical text but because of what it brings to them and their hearers. God has already equipped you as a teacher of his Word to help disciple all nations, carrying his unchanging truths from one culture to another.

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Global Missions And The Treason Of Conversion

Many missions methods emphasize the ease of conversion, but the decision to follow Christ must be understood as a virtual act of treason.

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4 Reasons Evangelism Is Not Wrong

Culture’s increasing disapproval and hostility toward gospel proclamation has Christians reconsidering evangelism’s correctness.

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Learning to Patiently Respond to Hurt and Heartache

The Christian must learn, in life and ministry, how to patiently respond to hurt and heartache.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Missions Committees

We are dependent upon God to bless our efforts as we pursue the Great Commission.