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Pandemics and Dr. Mo Bradley

With the outbreak of Covid-19, writers have been revisiting similar pandemics from the past, especially the Spanish flu of 1918-20 which infected 500 million people. Early missionaries to Thailand were no strangers to such pandemics either as smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, … Continue reading

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Orality Praxis in Discipleship and Church Planting

Mission Round Table vol. 11 no. 1 (January 2016): 10-16 Download this edition of Mission Round Table (2.5 MB) Introduction In 1993, after a dozen years of church planting and seminary teaching in Thailand, OMF leadership encouraged me to pursue a … Continue reading

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Resources for Gospel Storytelling

This is an updated (April 2020) version of the list of Gospel storytelling resources provided on page 9 of Mission Round Table vol. 11 no. 1 (January 2016) on the theme “Tell them the old, old Story”. Download PDF of “Tell them … Continue reading

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Our World Post Covid-19

If you asked people to define “pandemic” a a couple of years ago most all would have struggled, but now everyone seems to understand how a disease can spread quickly to an entire nation and even world. Every day the … Continue reading

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10 Things That You WILL Hear from your Missionary

Larry read a blog which which indicated ten things you will NOT hear from your missionary and decided to write this blog: Ten Things You WILL hear from your Missionary.  You can read it here.

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Larry’s Blog on Traumas Missionaries Face

Check out Larry’s recent blog post titled Two Types of “Trauma” on the Mission Field and How You Can Pray on the OMF website.  Follow this link to read it.

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Missionary Fails To Future Minister

If you search the word “Fail” using Youtube, you will generate literally 100s of clips and millions of hits. If they had Youtube in Bible times they could have videoed numerous fails by some very famous patriarchs, judges, kings and … Continue reading

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Bowing in Thailand

A few years ago, a group of women on a short-term mission trip from the states came to a Thai temple and to the horror of their host began to hug some of the child novices! They explained, “We just … Continue reading

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A Lottery and a Call to Missions

  In the fall of 1971, the United States was in the midst of the Vietnam War, so as a freshman in college I decided to join the Air Force R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officers’ Training Corp) due to an upcoming military … Continue reading

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Taking Road Measurements

    If you ride a motorcycle often, you get used to this question: “Have you ever had to ‘lay it down’”? Invariably the seasoned biker has had at least one occassion where he or she has had to jettison … Continue reading

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