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Evangelism news from the Mission America Coalition (U.S. Lausanne Committee)
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Luis Palau and local pastors pray for Mayor Bill de Blasio during NY CityFest in July. Read More
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Pray for the hundreds of thousands of children, youth, women, and men who have seen and heard the gospel across New York City recently as a result of the hundreds of congregations and ministries partnering together in the Luis Palau New York Cityfest.
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Outer Limits Conference Addresses Sharing Faith Naturally
Organic Outreach Ministries is hosting The Outer Limits, a conference for all who want to share their faith in comfortable and natural ways. "Anyone who believes that the message of Jesus is too wonderful for us to keep to ourselves should be at OOC 2015."
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Other Headlines
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Getting Out the Good News "It took nearly 2,000 years for the gospel to spread from the early church to nearly half the world's population...
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Competing Priorities When asked "how important it is for you personally to attend a local church," 33% women say...
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Americans have a surprising openness to Christian churches, even those who are supposedly turned off to religion
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The Divorce Myth It is no longer true that the divorce rate is rising, or that half of all marriages end in divorce says a NY Times report.
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About 70-75% of the U.S. population calls itself Christian, but about 25% robustly practices that faith.
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If a father does not go to church, only one child in 50 will become a regular worshiper.
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In a global survey of 28,000 consumers, 63% said they only buy products and services that appeal to their beliefs, values or ideals.
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Humans are producing such large quantities of data-2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily to be precise-that 90% of all existing data is less than two years old.
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You Are Invited!
Paul Cedar, Chairman, Mission America Coalition
The Outer Limits Conference
One of our newer Mission America Coalition partners is Organic Outreach, led by Pastor Kevin Harney, author of The Organic Church. He believes that vital Christian outreach should be an organic part of every local Church. And so do I!...
Read the Chairman's Letter
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How Love Can Change Our Gospel Witness
"To grow in evangelism, we actually don't need to focus on evangelism. We need, rather, to practice focusing on God, in Christ, who works through His Spirit and into and through the circumstances of our everyday lives," says Byron Spradlin.
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Other Commentary
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25 Ways to Be Missional in Your Neighborhood
The best way to engage people around us the the gospel is to connect in the everyday things they are already doing, says Pastor Josh Reeves.
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Other Tools
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Collaboration Calendar
- Loving Our Communities to Christ Call – Aug. 20, 10:00 a.m. CDT
- Bimonthly City Vision Coaching – Aug. 13 and 27, 9:00 a.m. CST
- Cry Out America – Sept. 11, Nationwide
- 10 Days of Prayer – Sept. 13 - 23, Nationwide
- LJ Live Redeeming Work - Sept. 17, Los Angeles
- Truth for a New Generation – Sept. 18-19, Spartanburg, SC
- Introduction to Business as Mission Impact Conference, Sept. 18-20
- National Back to Church Sunday – Sept. 20, Nationwide
Submit your events and activities that are open for participation from the whole Church by email to
[email protected]
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Do You Follow Us on Facebook and Twitter?
We share valuable tools, resources and stories about evangelism from this newsletter that you can share on your social media. Follow the Mission American Coalition on Facebook or Twitter.
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Why I Joined the Mission America Coalition
"I want to share Jesus with as many people and love everyone along the way. I'd like to be connected to a community of like-minded leaders and followers of Jesus."
— New Member from Minneapolis, MN
"I want to partner with local members to further the Gospel in one of the darkest parts of America."
— New Member from Barrington, RI
"Would like to connect with others that care about evangelism and restoring the Bible's credibility in pop-culture in the US."
— New Member from Alpharetta, GA
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If you would like to support the Mission America Coalition,
including initiatives like LOVE2020 and Loving Our Communities to Christ,
donate online.
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