By Bonita Sparling
Bonita is a student mission mobilizer in Canada.

This summer I was able to return to my second home in the Caribbean Island of Haiti. As a child, I had spent most of my winters there with my family doing missions service and then as a teen returned on several short term trips and then for an extended period of time. It was during one of those trips my heart was stirred with how big our God truly is and I volunteered myself for God to use in any way He wanted.

That was a good prayer, and several years later the Lord reminded me of that prayer. I was in Bible School and during a prayer day I asked the Lord for confirmation in a decision I had made to return to Haiti as a full time missionary and you know what He asked me for.my heart! He said, "Bonita, I love you. Give me what you desire the most, give me Haiti." For hours I struggled.. So much of my life was there now and there was so much to 'do' but I   more >

The Need for a Paradigm Shift

As we pursue with passion the call of God upon the emerging generation today and their role in reaching the least reached in this hour, there are several critical paradigm shifts in the Church that must be given primary focus. Many of these surround a desperately needed transformation in the basic way that discipleship is taking place. In many ways our current discipleship models are not preparing message bearers that are ready to persevere, endure, overcome and thrive in serving Jesus among the nations throughout a lifetime. They are often watered down shadows of what Jesus intended a "disciple" to be, ill-equipping the people of God to faithfully respond and participate in accomplishing God's eternal purposes. Jesus' discipleship model prepared His twelve to turn the wor  more >

Defining Moments

He was shy, weak, and small-rather squirrelly, actually. He even thought that "the missionary call cannot be completed because public speaking is impossible." Yet, Robert Parmelee Wilder was the founder of the Student Volunteer Movement in America. He went on to initiate student movements in England, Norway, Italy, and had a career as a missionary in India. Robert Wilder knew that the Cross demanded all or nothing-and he gave his all for the "evangelization of the world in this generation."

By Evan Burns
Evan Burns is a member of the international facilitation team for SVM2 and currently lives among the unreached.

In the fall-out of post-Reformation doctrinal debates and Christian hero-worship of the early 1700's in Europe, Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf was used by God to bring revival and the greatest global proclamation movement in history.. Zinzendorf and his group of prayer warriors not only gave themselves to night-and-day radical prayer, but they also gave their resources. They vowed to send the gospel to the nations, and that meant that some would surrender their life plans and go, while the rest would sacrifice their life wealth and give. In their understanding of Christ's call to discipleship, a Christian had four options-go, send, pray, or disobey.