Missions 101 Videos
Global Frontier Missions (GFM) developed these whiteboard videos to provide insight as to the “why” of global missions. Each of the Christian Missions 101 lessons have been compiled into a 5-week small group study called Step In that is ideal for your small group, missions committee, or church. These video resources are also available in Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Czech, Portuguese, and Swahili.
What is a UPG?
Have you seen or heard this acronym before? How about an Unreached People Group? Global Frontier Missions mobilizes individuals and churches to get involved with UPGs close to us and around the world. Find out how missions organizations define this term and how it is used to direct our work.
The Biblical Basis of Missions
How often is missions mentioned in the Bible? Is missions important to God? This teaching takes you from Genesis to Revelation, showing how much God cares about all peoples. God’s command has always been to take the knowledge of His glory to the ends of the earth. Take five minutes and learn about His story.
The State of the World
Now that you know what an Unreached People Group is and understand that we have a God on mission to display His glory among all the people of the earth, how is the Christian church doing? It has been almost 2,000 years since Jesus gave us the Great Commission; we should be close to completing it, right?
God's Heart for the Foreigner
We know that God has a heart for all nations and desires people from every tribe, tongue, people and nation to be a part of His Kingdom. We see the need around the world and the places with no access to the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Now, what about the influx of internationals living among us? How does God view people
migrating around the world?
3D Gospel – Guilt Innocence, Honor Shame, and Fear Power Worldviews
Worldview varies from one culture to the next and is one of the biggest obstacles in the presentation and understanding of the Gospel. Cultures tend to be based on guilt/innocence, shame/honor, or fear/power. By increasing our understanding of each worldview, we will learn the most effective ways to share the Gospel with people from different cultures.
Christian Community Development (When Helping Hurts)
In hundreds of Bible verses, God commanded His people to care for orphans, widows, foreigners, sick, poor, and other marginalized people. Christians must embrace God’s loving heart and obey His commands to help people, not only spiritually, but also, physically. How do we do this in an effective way?
The Power of Multiplication
What would happen if we simply obeyed Jesus’ Great Commission given in Matthew 28 to make disciples of all nations? What would result if, instead of feeling burdened to “reach” an entire people group, missionaries found just one or a handful of teachable disciples to equip who would, in turn, find just one or a handful of teachable disciples to equip? Listen and discover the effects of faithful discipleship.
The Kingdom of God
Jesus said that "this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations
and then the end would come." How many of us have a good understanding of what the Kingdom of God is and how we can proclaim that to others? What would it look like not only to share the Good News that Jesus died on the cross for our sins but that "the Kingdom of Heaven is near"?