By Ryan Shaw
Ryan is the International Lead Facilitator for SVM2 and lives among the unreached.

"Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world - the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life - is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever." - 1 John 2:15-17

One of the greatest hindrances to the body of Jesus Christ moving on with abandoned devotion to their Master and becoming captivated and activated with His vision and prophetic purpose in the nations is the presence of worldliness among us. It takes on multitudes of faces. It is the place of lukewarm living which appears much easier and less risky than pursuing the deeper life in God. Though it obviously is found in allowing our actions to be dictated and in  more >

By Chimezie Onyebilanma
Chim is a Nigerian serving with Capro Missions in South Africa.

Victor is considered a spiritual giant among his peers. He is the leader of the over 1,000-member Christian student fellowship on his campus. You wouldn't have suspected it except he told you, yet Victor was afraid of having anything to do with demonic powers. Things like witches or satanic powers gave him a fright. And since at the fellowship it was rare for him to have anything to do with this kind of power encounters, he was okay. That was until last month when we asked him to join a team for a short term outreach to the interiors of Botswana. When he learnt of the level of dark powers that exist in this place, all his worst fears returned. The fear was terrible and real. Victor nearly dropped out mid-way into the trip if not for the help of more matured team members.

There are many who like Victor are hindered from active participa  more >

By Paul 'Abd al-Asad'
Paul is an itinerant evangelist serving several difficult Muslim nations.

If I had only realized

We often learn some of life's most important lessons through failure. And I'd like to begin by sharing with you one of my greatest failures-turned-lessons. Being in a position of leadership, I was heavily involved in my campus fellowship during my days in college. I genuinely wanted to see my campus be served and reached with the Gospel, and one day I aspired to take this radical message of love, sacrifice and redemption to the nations. But for the time being my focus was my campus - my very white, very American, very secular campus. During these years, I became acquainted with a young man from South Asia named Ismail. I think we connected because we had a lot in common. We were both sincere about our love for God and we both tried to be moral in an immoral setting. And on a college  more >