Gary Wilkerson and Mark Renfroe dive into World Challenge's approach to missions, which intertwines compassion ministry and collaboration with indigenous believers. They discuss the effectiveness of this strategy in raising the credibility of the gospel and empowering local Christians to reach their communities. Mark shares a compelling story from South Asia, where providing cows to poor families and partnering with a local pastor led to many Muslims committing their lives to Christ. This episode highlights the transformative power of combining practical compassion with strategic collaboration in missions to the unreached.
Key Points from the Podcast
• World Challenge's missions approach combines compassion ministry and collaboration with indigenous believers.
• Providing practical help, such as giving cows to poor families, can raise the credibility of the gospel in unreached communities.
• Collaborating with local believers is highly effective, as they can engage their communities without cultural and language barriers.
• In one South Asian village, the combination of compassion and collaboration led to many Muslims coming to faith in Christ.
• The story shared illustrates the transformative power of this missions approach in seeing breakthrough among the unreached.
• Listeners are challenged to consider partnering with organizations like World Challenge to support this strategic approach to missions.
Recommended Resources
• World Challenge Missions
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About Mark Refroe
Mark married his college sweetheart, Amy, with whom he has four adult children—one girl and three boys. The Renfroes have been involved in field missions work for 30 years. They served in the Arab community of San Francisco for four years before becoming foreign missionaries in 1995. Mark was asked to serve as the Area Director for Assemblies of God World Missions in 2007. As part of his role, he led missionaries and interfaced with national church leaders in the 18 countries of the Arab World. In 2017, Mark created Reaching Africa’s Muslims, an initiative to mobilize, equip, and deploy indigenous African missionaries to reach Muslims on the continent. Mark has graduate degrees in Intercultural Studies and Executive Leadership. He currently serves as the Chief Missions Officer for World Challenge in Colorado Springs.
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