These quotes stir my heart…may they do so with you! May we all be doers of God’s Word and not hearers only!

From “Mission’s Mobilizer”:

“I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light” — John Keith Falconer

“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply” — Hudson Taylor [ video ]

“God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him” — Hudson Taylor

“The Great Commission¹ is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed” — Hudson Taylor

“If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China” — Hudson Taylor

“God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.” — Hudson Taylor, missionary to China [ video ]

“Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God” — William Carey, who is called the father of modern missions [ more info ]

“To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.” — William Carey, pioneer missionary to India

“Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?” — William Carey

“The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.” — Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia

“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” — Jim Elliot, missionary martyr who lost his life in the late 1950’s trying to reach the Auca Indians of Ecuador [ info on video ]

“We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it” — P.F. Bresee, founder of the Church of the Nazarene

“In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been” — Robert Moffat, who inspired David Livingstone

“If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?” — David Livingstone

“Sympathy is no substitute for action.” — David Livingstone, missionary to Africa

“Can’t you do just a little bit more?” — J.G. Morrison pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930’s Great Depression to support their missionaries

“Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us.” — Keith Wright

“The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible” — Ralph Winter, missiologist

On the importance of mission education: “God cannot lead you on the basis of information you do not have” — Ralph Winter, missiologist

“Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell.” — C.T. Studd

“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.” — C.T. Studd

“Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.” — C.T. Studd

“No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.” — Oswald J. Smith [ more on Oswald Smith ]

“Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.” — Oswald J. Smith

“The mission of the church is missions” — Oswald J. Smith

“We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.” — Oswald J. Smith

“This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!” — Keith Green

“There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church’s disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.” — Robert Speer, leader in Student Volunteer Movement

“If God calls you to be a missionary, don’t stoop to be a king” — Jordan Grooms (variations of this also credited to G. K. Chesterson, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

“If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn’t it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death.” — Dave Davidson

“World missions was on God’s mind from the beginning.” — Dave Davidson

“In our lifetime, wouldn’t it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?” — Dave Davidson

“Let my heart be broken with the things that break God’s heart” — Bob Pierce, World Vision founder

“No reserves. No retreats. No regrets” — William Borden

“If ten men are carrying a log — nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end — and you want to help, which end will you lift on?” — William Borden, as he reflected on the numbers of Christian workers in the U.S. as compared to those among unreached peoples in China

“The reason some folks don’t believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn’t worth propagating.” — unknown

When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, “You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages.” To that, Calvert replied, “We died before we came here.”

“Someone asked Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we — who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not — can be saved.” — Charles Spurgeon

“The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time” — Carl F. H. Henry

“Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.” — Kurt von Schleicher [ Apple pickers’ parable ]

“Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God’s delight in being God.” — John Piper

“To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.” — John Piper

“God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.” — John Piper

“Go, send, or disobey.” — John Piper

“You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving.” — Amy Carmichael, missionary to India

“Only as the church fulfills her missionary obligation does she justify her existence.” — Unknown

“As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both.” — J. L. Ewen

“The command has been to ‘go,’ but we have stayed — in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth … but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.” — Robert Savage, Latin American Mission

“People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives … and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.” — Nate Saint, missionary martyr [ devotional thoughts ]

“We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.” — John Stott

“Believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.” — K.P. Yohannan, founder of Gospel for Asia Bible Society

“Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.” — Francis Xavier, missionary to India, the Philippines, and Japan

“The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.” — Mike Stachura

“The true greatness of any church in not how many it seats but how many it sends!” — Unknown

“‘Not called!’ did you say?
‘Not heard the call,’ I think you should say.
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world. — William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army

“It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.” — Peter Taylor Forsyth

“If God’s love is for anybody anywhere, it’s for everybody everywhere.” — Edward Lawlor, Nazarene General Superintendent

“Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is — where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.” — Robert C. Shannon

“People who don’t believe in missions have not read the New Testament. Right from the beginning Jesus said the field is the world. The early church took Him at His word and went East, West, North and South.” — J. Howard Edington

“It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.” — John R. Mott

“In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God’s work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer.” — Dick Eastman, president of Every Home for Christ (formerly World Literature Crusade)

“What’s your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?” — Eleanor Roat, missions mobilizer

“We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.” — Wesley Duewel, head of OMS International

“Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions” — Roderick Davis

“Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love” — Roland Allen

“I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.” — Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

“If you take missions out of the Bible, you won’t have anything left but the covers” — Nina Gunter

“If the Church is ‘in Christ,’ she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.” — David Bosch

“Missions is not the ‘ministry of choice’ for a few hyperactive Christians in the church. Missions is the purpose of the church.” — Unknown

“The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man’s personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.” — James S. Stewart

“The average pastor views his church as a local church with a missions program; while he ought to realize that if he is in fact pastoring a church, it is to be a global church with a missions purpose.” — Unknown

“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.” — A. B. Simpson [ missionary hymns by Simpson ]

“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.” — A.B. Simpson

“The will of God — nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.” — F. E. Marsh (also attributed to Bobby Richardson)

“If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.” — Pat Morley

“If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.” — Arthur T. Pierson

“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.” — Samuel Zwemer

“‘Go ye’ is as much a part of Christ’s Gospel as ‘Come unto Me.’ You are not even a Christian until you have honestly faced your responsibility in regard to the carrying of the Gospel to the ends of the earth.” — J. Stuart Holden

“A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.” — Ted Engstrom, World Vision

“To stay here and disobey God — I can’t afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.” — Amanda Berry Smith

“I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!” — Isobel Kuhn, missionary to China and Thailand

“God is a God of missions. He wills missions. He commands missions. He demands missions. He made missions possible through His Son. He made missions actual in sending the Holy Spirit.” — George W. Peters

“The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.” — Unknown

“The Church must send or the church will end.” — Mendell

Compiled at: http://home.snu.edu/~HCULBERT/slogans.htm

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A Challenge to Every Christian by Mrs. C.T. Studd

But–God is omnipotent!
Say not–Look what I’d lose!
But–See what I’d gain!
Say not–Have I the wisdom?
But–Am I a fool? I Cor. iii. 18.
Say not–I might lose my life!
But–I must save their souls!
Say not–Should I leave my possessions?
But–Christ’s my inheritance!
Say not–Is it the right time?
But–Christ’s coming soon!
Say not–What salary shall I draw?
But–The Bible’s my cheque book!
Say not–I fear the hardships!
But–I shall reign if I suffer!
Say not–Who’s on the Committee?
But–God’s our Director!
Say not–Shall I not starve?
But–God feeds the birds!
Say not–I have no talents!
But–Christ is my wisdom!
Say not–Have I the faith?
But–Doubting is sin!
Say not–I am not eloquent!
But–Who made man’s mouth?
Say not–I don’t want to be fanatical!
But–Make me a flame of fire!
Say not–I am a doctor. Who’ll build and support my hospital?
But–I trust God for all!
Say not–I fear the devil!
But–With the sling of faith and a smooth stone from the Book, I’ll knock Goliath’s head off!
Say not–Good-bye (in tears), I’ll soon come back again!
But–I’m off to the Devil’s Den to turn the Devil out! How lucky I am! I’ve got my “Blue” at last! Certainly I am to be congratulated. Thanks awfully!

Adieu!

Up, for this is the day: is not the Lord gone out before thee?”
Up! Up! Ye Baraks.
Up! Up! Ye Deborahs.
Up! Up! to this work of the Lord.”

–From “With C.T. Studd In Congo Forests” by Norman Grubb, Chapter 27 quoting one of “Mother” Studd’s missionary pamphlets printed in the early 1920′s to gather workers for the “Heart of Africa Mission”

HT: Women of Christianity

Please continue to pray for God’s protection from the L.R.A. ! This rebel group is still abducting children, killing, and terrorizing people of Northeast Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. Pray that Reaching Africa’s Unreached will be used of the Lord to bring the healing power of Jesus to the people of North Uganda, South Sudan, and Northeast Democratic Republic of Congo! Thank you!

From BBC News- Audio slideshow: Living in fear :

“Their leader is often dismissed as a madman and his fighters as little more than murderous thugs, yet the messianic Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army is Africa’s longest-surviving and most-feared rebel group.

Over the past two years the LRA, which once claimed to base its ideology on the Ten Commandments, has killed 2,500 people and abducted nearly 3,000 more – many of them children.

For Radio 4’s , reporter Mike Thomson travelled to Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate one of the world’s most under-reported crises.

WARNING: This slideshow contains an image of a victim of mutilation.

Interviews by Mike Thomson. Field production by Lewis James. Slide show production by Paul Kerley. Publication date 16 February 2011.”

 

From BBC News:

Uganda election: Yoweri Museveni faces Kizza Besigye

Ugandans are going to the polls, with President Yoweri Museveni hoping to extend his 25 years in office.

After some initial delays, voting is said to be proceeding smoothly in both the capital and the north, now at peace after years of rebel activity.

Mr Museveni’s former doctor, Kizza Besigye, is standing against him for the third time and has warned of protests if he is “cheated” of victory.

But Mr Museveni said Egyptian-style protests could not happen in Uganda.

Oil has recently been discovered in Uganda and one of the main issues has been how to spend the income which is set to start flowing in the coming years.

The BBC’s Joshua Mmali at a polling station in Kampala says that after polls opened 45 minutes late, the queues quickly died down.

He says many people do not have confidence in the process but they have gone to cast their ballot so they can say they have done their duty.

“I came early to vote and then I have to keep witnessing the process. We fear rigging,” voter Badru Busulwa told the AFP news agency.

After a lavishly funded campaign, Mr Museveni is seen as the favourite.

There have been complaints from some people who say they registered to vote but have been unable to find their names on the roll.

According to Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper, independent presidential candidate Samuel Walter Lubega discovered that his name missing when he went to vote at a polling station in Kampala.

Despite the omission, electoral officials allowed him to cast his vote.

Brutal rebels

Ahead of the election, Ugandan officials sought to reassure voters that there was adequate security for the polls after the mass circulation of text messages warning people to stock up on food and fuel in case of trouble.

Dr Besigye and Mr Museveni were allies in the guerrilla war which brought the latter to power in 1986, but they later fell out.

Six other presidential candidates are in the running and Ugandans will be voting for MPs as well.

Electoral commission head Badru Kiggundu warned all candidates, parties and media not to announce any results that had not been declared by the electoral commission.

“Security is firmly on the ground, so [there will be] no monkeying games,” said Mr Kiggundu.

The polls are set to close at 1700 local time (1400 GMT), with results to be declared within 48 hours.

A candidate needs more than 50% of the vote to be elected president, or a run-off will be held.

This is the first time that northern Uganda is voting without the direct threat of attack from the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, who have now moved to neighbouring countries.

Last week, the authorities said about 20 militia groups had been formed in the run-up to the vote, which prompted worries of unrest.

Declining support

But police chief Kale Kahiyura reiterated Mr Kiggundu’s comments and said there was no need for panic.

Dr Besigye complained that the elections were being rigged but said it would be a waste of time to go to court if there was fraud.

“One of the ways is to, indeed, get the people themselves to protest,” he told the BBC.

But Mr Museveni said he was confident of a big win and warned that anyone using “extra-constitutional means to take power” would be locked up.

“There will be no Egyptian-like revolution here because we are freedom fighters, we are not office people,” he said.

“It’s out of the question, I can guarantee you this – it will not happen.”

After losing the 2001 poll, Dr Besigye fled Uganda, saying he feared for his life.

He returned before the 2006 election, but was not able to campaign properly as he was charged with rape and supporting an armed group.

Dr Besigye said all the allegations were part of a campaign of political persecution.

He was cleared of rape in March 2006 – and last year the Constitutional Court quashed the treason charges.

Mr Museveni has defeated his challengers every five years since 1996, though his support has steadily declined.

In 1996, he received around 75% of the vote, but this fell to 59% in 2006.

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Short bio on the current President of Uganda: Yoweri Museveni