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The Process of Change
Five Stones Global moves people through these four stages of change:
- Sense It! – Sense a need for change
- Desire It! – Desire a better future
- Imagine It! – Imagine new possibilities
- Apply It! – Apply new strategies
Mark Zook – The late missionary to Papua New Guinea, New Tribes Mission Stated
Missionaries, led by the Lord to engage in cross-cultural missions, face many challenges and first-time opportunities.
Where do I begin?
What should I do?
What should I not do?
Five Stones Global focuses on the importance of missionaries working from the beginning of their ministry toward the end goal of leading churches to be self-reliant. To lean continually upon the crutch of foreign resources is not a viable option.
Five Stones Global’s expertise, via qualified personnel and trustworthy resources, will help missionaries avoid having an ahaa moment when they commonly say, ‘I wish I had known these principles before starting my ministry.’ Five Stones Global’s practical and doable principles for establishing self-reliant churches should be part of every cross-cultural worker’s toolkit.
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Let Jesus Be Himself
We all hear or use phrases like these: Just be yourself. Embrace who you are. Own your story. Let me be me. I am free to be me. This way of thinking is popular in American culture today. We allow great latitude for ourselves to be at home in our own skins and others to […]
Social Justice 4: Micro-Compassion as a Lifestyle
By Jean Johnson Macro-compassion projects from the West tend to swallow up micro-compassion lifestyles for the Rest. Compassion in the hands of the few on behalf of the many is extremely limiting. How can we help to reverse this syndrome and make compassion every Christ follower’s natural rhythm of life in their micro-spaces, thus becoming a […]
Missionary, Save Thyself!
Guest Blog by Ryan Kuja Excerpt from Ryan’s book: From Inside Out: Reimagining Mission, Recreating the World While serving with a Christian humanitarian organization in South Sudan, I worked with a Dinka man named Abijek who lived in a nearby village. He was employed by the organization to keep an eye on the goings-on in and […]
Social Justice 3 – Is Integral Mission as Integral as We Want? Is Social Justice as Just as We Think?
By Jean Johnson, Director of Five Stones Global The Lausanne Movement describes integral mission as a style of mission that recognizes “no biblical dichotomy between evangelistic and social responsibility.” Putting this concept into the form of an action statement, we might say that integral mission is “integrating the proclamation of the gospel and social action.” […]
Social Justice 2 – How Does Spiritual Justice Play Out?
By Jean Johnson In my last post, we visited God’s heart for social justice by listening in on a conversation between a child and a parent. Additionally, we visited Isaiah 1:17, which is a clear invitation to correct oppression, bring justice to the fatherless, and plead the cause of widows. In certain periods of the […]
Social Justice 1: God Designed Social Justice – Don’t You Dare Hit Her!
By Jean Johnson I was driving down a popular boulevard in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In a grassy area along the boulevard, I saw a man lift up his iron rod that served as a cane to strike a woman over her head. Without thinking, I slammed on my brakes, jumped out of my vehicle, and […]