Gaining God’s Heart for Lost Sheep: 3 Steps to posture your heart toward Christ-like Compassion for The Unreached What stirs your heart? What causes deep compassion to well up within you, to where you just have to do something? Here are three steps we all can take to...

by Matthew Ellison - Sixteen:Fifteen, President and Church Missions Coach I have been engaged in mobilizing churches to engage the nations for nearly twenty five years, and if I had a nickel every time I heard people say, “Why go to the ends of the earth when there...

Back in 2012, in a Special Edition ministry newsletter entitled, Mission Accomplished, I shared how my dad was treading that thin place where heaven and earth meet, and how his ministry on earth was coming to a close.  My dad had played an instrumental role in the...

An interview with the author Ted Esler, President of Missio Nexus What’s the big idea?    I am often asked by ministry leaders, “Ted, who is being innovative right now that we might be able to learn from?” I found myself short on answers and realized that innovation...

Our passion is to see a movement of local churches rise up and take their place in the greatest movement in history, namely the Great Commission.  We long to see churches join God in His invincible, unthwartable mission to fill heaven with worshipers from all nations,...

      “And they sang a new song, saying, ‘Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom...

A friend of mine that served with me as an intern many years ago recently asked me, “Are you finding churches less active in missions today because of COVID, civil unrest, and ethnic tensions? Are they focusing more now on staying afloat and on domestic needs?” I...

"This brief, powerful, and provocative book should be read by every North American pastor. Spitters & Ellison contend that when every Christian is a missionary and every ministry is missions, we gut the mandate to reach all nations. Check it out to discover why...

Paul the Apostle, in Ephesians 5:15-16 wrote, “Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.” The Apostle urged Ephesian Christians to redeem the time, literally to “buy up the opportunities”...