Tag: poverty

• Is the Gospel Worth the Risk?

  

  I was on a skinny wooden boat recently traveling up river to a remote cluster of villages we had never been to. We’ve only seen these villages in our minds as we prayed for them and on satellite images surrounded by mountain valleys. We were determined to get there despite the fact that we didn’t…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  October 20, 2014

  Asian Faith, Missional Living

  adventure, Bible, Christianity, Communist, Faith, God, Gospel, human trafficking, jesus, knowledge, Missional Living, Missions, obedience, orphans, persecution, poverty, Risk, sheep, Travel, Unreached People Groups, wolves, Worldview

• Chapter 7: Typical Day

  

  It was 1996. The sun was shining and I had just punched some white kid in the face. I picked up his glasses and threw them down the street as he begged me to stop. I let him get on his bike and said, “You tell your brother to never talk s*** again. Get the…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  May 31, 2014

  Toby’s Story

  Autobiography, Crime, culture, Drugs, ethnic minority, Faith, gang life, Gang-banger, Gangster Disciples, guns, Juvenile Delinquency, original gangsters, Police, poverty, southeast asian, Testimony, violence, youth

• Easter Doesn’t Exist…For The Unreached

  

  Last week I found myself with a broken motorbike surrounded by jungle and stranded in a mountain pass with no cell phone reception. There was no other choice but to split the group up and push the heavy ass bike back the way we came – up and down the mountain in the heat of…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  April 19, 2014

  Asian Faith, Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  adventure travel, Animism, Asia, Buddhism, Christianity, church, demon worship, Easter, Faith, God, God’s glory, Good News, Gospel, hell, holidays, hope, inaccessible, jesus, jungle, Kingdom, lostness, Missional, missionary, Missions, Motorbike, neighbors, orphans, poverty, prostitutes, religion, rough riders, rural villages, salvation, Southeast Asia, students, Testimony, Training for Trainers, tribes, Truth, Unreached, Unreached People Groups, western traditions, witness

• Reblog: Over the Mountain & Into the Valley

  

  I just couldn’t resist reblogging this! Here is a post from a friend where she poetically summarizes the 5 highlights of her most epic journey to pray for the unreached in Laos. You can visit her blog here: The Afterglow The highlight of March was going on a prayer journey to The So People.  It all…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  March 31, 2014

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  adventure travel, Animism, Asian food, boldness, bombs, Cambodia, challenge, Christian, church, clean water, courage, evil spirits, Faith, faithfulness, food, God, God’s glory, God’s presence, Gospel, Healing, jesus, Jordan River, Joshua, Laos, love, Mekong Kingdom Movement, Miracles, Missions, Motorbike, mountains, mustard seed, papaya salad, paralyzed, pho, poverty, praise, pray, prayer journey, prayer walking, Risk, Sacrifice, sea, Southeast Asia, spicy, Spirits, team, Thailand, The So People, tranformation, Truth, valleys, Villages, visa run

• You Are Not Asian: Using Culture As A Ministry Crutch

  

  You are not Asian. You are not any color. Your identity is not based in your cultural roots. What you are, is a beacon of God’s image. You are meant to shine His glory in dark places. You are meant to be God’s living story and go wherever He tells you to go. The problem…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  March 15, 2014

  Asian Faith, Missional Living

  abilities, Americans, asian, Asian-American, blessings, Calling, camps, career, Christianity, church, color, comfort zone, conferences, crutch, cultural identity, cultural roots, culture, drug addicts, Entrepreneur, ethnocentric, ex-cons, Faith, gifts, Go, God’s glory, God’s image, God’s will, greatest needs, hoarding, Home, identity, jesus, love, man-centered, ministry, mission, mission field, Missional, motives, needs, obey, poor, poverty, racism, redemption, retreats, rich, rights, serve, Story, talents, will of God, xbox

• The Motivation for Mission

  

  There are many honorable and noble reasons to engage the lost in a cross-cultural setting but there is only one that will truly sustain you for the long haul. Missions is not about alleviating poverty, eradicating world hunger, stopping human trafficking, and listen carefully…it’s not even about saving souls. Missions is about spreading the fame…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  February 11, 2014

  Missional Living

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