May 2010

May 17, 2010

Bangkok Violence in Pictures

http://b.globe.com/9hPJ9z – Boston Globe: Protests turn deadly in Thailand (numerous photographs).

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May 17, 2010

Southern Baptists in USA

http://bit.ly/bEW1ct – New Stats: S. Baptist (USA) baptisms up, total membership down, mission giving down.

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May 17, 2010

Reaching Muslims in the USA

http://bit.ly/aU8myd – local city rules end up effectively squelching outreach to Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan.

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May 17, 2010

CPM in Mongolia

http://bit.ly/b4uSBR - Running in the Spirit: Church Growth in Mongolia – brief article from April 2010 recaps the incredible growth of the church here.

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May 17, 2010

Arab World Ministries, Pioneers merge

http://ht.ly/1LZ3V – Pioneers USA and Arab World Ministries (400 members) will merge and “be at the forefront of reaching Muslims for Christ in the heartland of Islam.”

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May 17, 2010

Battles in Thailand

http://twitter.com/justindlong/bangkok-crisis – Bangkok was the scene of much violence last night. Looks like there might be more today.

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May 17, 2010

Culture Shock: Trains & Markets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RClyvdhsGs - Check out this market somewhere in Asia – held right over a train track – and what happens when the train comes by.

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May 14, 2010

Skype 5-way calling

http://bit.ly/aozyIq – New skype beta – 5-way video calling – downloading & installing the beta right now!

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May 14, 2010

Language & Culture Battles in Europe

http://bit.ly/cxa3pU – “Belgium doesn’t exist, only Flanders and Wallonia as Dutch & French communities live apart.”

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May 14, 2010

Impact of clean water

http://bit.ly/antKad – Compassion explores what clean water means for a village in Papua, Indonesia.

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May 14, 2010

Muslims and Contraceptives

http://bit.ly/bVyhy3 - Afghani religious leaders are big advocates of contraception, preaching merits of family planning and approving Quranic verses to be used in pill packaging.

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May 14, 2010

Massive outreach in France

http://bit.ly/91zPK0 - The Luis Palau Association plans to bring its “Festival” evangelistic model to France in May 2011 for the very first time.

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May 14, 2010

New Somali Martyr

http://bit.ly/cG9xrc – Somali militants murder Christian father of 3. At least 15 Christians were murdered by militants in 2009.

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May 14, 2010

Charities out of Afghanistan

http://bit.ly/9m7z0H – Karzai ejects numerous charities (incl. at least 1 Christian NGO) and security firms from Afghanistan (Wired).

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May 14, 2010

Singularity Sooner

http://bit.ly/bPUScB – Former Microsoft programmer Keith Curtis discusses why he thinks the singularity could happen even sooner.

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May 14, 2010

Extreme poverty by 2015

http://bit.ly/aaN3Fd - A new World Bank/IMF report expects 920 million people will remain in extreme poverty by 2015.

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May 14, 2010

Eradicate Malaria

http://bit.ly/bqDglK – Campaign aims to eradicate malaria by 2015 in Africa. The number one killer of children, kills over 1 million yearly, 91% in Africa.

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May 14, 2010

Reaching immigrants

http://bit.ly/9H7rlF – Lifeway Research: America receives immigrants from 202 countries in the world, yet Christians are not reaching out to around 25 percent of the groups.

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May 14, 2010

Internet evangelism of the world?

http://bit.ly/bkQ9LU – Walt Wilson, former Apple executive and CEO of Global Media Outreach, is maybe a little optimistic. He thinks we can evangelize the world via the Internet by 2020, expecting total wifi coverage of the world by 2015. To which I ask: rural Afghanistan? Deserts of North Africa? Buddhist monks in Tibet? Hmm.

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May 14, 2010

India’s Vision 2030

http://bit.ly/9frmto – “Do or die” – many stats on the need for India to build infrastructure to keep pace with urbanization. Failure to do so could have catastrophic consequences.

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