MissionMakr.com

MissionMakr.com empowers churches to more effectively communicate about and manage short-term mission trips. It was developed and launced to support a group from Shelter Cove Community Church in Modesto, Calif., that made a short-term trip to Mexico in 2009. MissionMakr.com’s Web application helps churches inform people about an upcoming trip and sign up participants; connect trip participants in a secure, online environment for discussion and devotion before the trip; give real-time updates to church members who sign up to follow the trip; and share what God did on the trip through photos, video and text.

 

Fight Church: A Fighting Chance

“Here was a people group that wasn’t being served by any form of chaplaincy like many major sports have,” says Pastor Joshua Boyd, of the local MMA community. “And they needed care just like anyone else.”

Perfectly Imperfect Churches

Most of the great breakthroughs and innovative ideas are a result of problems being viewed not as a problem to solve, but an opportunity to make things better.

Nigerian Church Promotes a Deeper Christian Life

A. Larry Ross, who traveled the world for nearly 34 years as personal media spokesman for evangelist Billy Graham, says the new epicenter for evangelism is the Global South and Nigerian evangelist William Kumuyi as the pastor of “the largest church of which most American Christians have never heard.”