The Shreveport Summit has ended. The banners have been pulled down and the cars have all left the parking lot. Most would probably agree, though, that the Summit was a marker of new beginnings. For those attendees taking on a new challenge of reaching lost East Asians around the globe, the first steps of an [...]

Looking for a new way to make an impact on the world’s lostness, in 2006, Curt Green* of Northwest Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, attended an IMB East Asian Missions Conference. He met Christian workers serving in East Asia, attended workshops, and learned of new opportunities that were outside the norm. The [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (BP)–Ruth Bruffey first came to the Deaflympics games in 1961 as a track and field athlete with the U.S. Deaflympic Team. This year, Bruffey returned to the Deaflympics to tell others about Jesus.
In 1961, at the 9th Deaflympic games in Helsinki, Finland, 24 nations and 595 athletes competed. This year, at the [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (BP)–From deaf churches and interpretative ministries across the United States, they came to Taipei, Taiwan, with one common goal — to share the power of Jesus with every person they would meet.
The volunteers to the 21st Deaflympics in Taipei, Taiwan, have dubbed themselves the “Power Team,” based on the official theme of this [...]

This article by Kate Taylor, first appeared on www.missionleader.com, and is reproduced with permission.

Chinatown, San Francisco. July 4, 2009. 9:30 p.m.
Fireworks were going off everywhere as I considered the irony of this holiday in this place. Thousands of years ago, the Chinese invented the first fireworks. Now, here, they were being [...]

On August 8th Typhoon Morakot made landfall in Taiwan, dumping several metres of rain, and killing hundreds of people. Thousands more were trapped by mudslides in the south of the island nation. Many roads were damaged, bridges washed away, and large areas of farmland destroyed by Taiwan’s worst flooding in 50 years, which caused losses [...]