Into All The World | Travis & Teri Snode

1 Kings 12:7 “And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.” Young Rehoboam was faced with a crucial decisions.  The people were tired of Solomon’s [...]

This article was written by my pastor, Austin Gardner, several years ago.  As a church-planting missionary, this article has some very important truths for me and other missionaries to consider.   God greatly used my pastor when He went to Peru as a missionary, and I think that following this method had a lot to [...]

My pastor send me this and I wanted to pass it along. William Carey and his team set forth principles that still guide us today in mission work. Here are excerpts from the “Form of Agreement” drafted by Carey and his colleagues in October 1805. The Redeemer, in planting us in this heathen nation, rather [...]

By Charles H. Spurgeon TWO learned doctors are angrily discussing the nature of food, and allowing their meal to lie untasted, while a simple countryman is eating as heartily as he can of that which is set before him. The religious world is full of quibblers, critics, and skeptics, who, like the doctors, fight over [...]

The following is written about Robert Jaffray, missionary to China.  His example is a great encouragement about what to do regarding world evangelism during difficult financial times. The evangelization of the South Seas had not been long under way when the great financial crisis of the early 1930s—felt around the world and known through several [...]

One of the most common statements and disgraceful commentaries of those who work in the ministry is that they are lazy.  So many people think that being a pastor, missionary, or full-time Christian worker is an easy, cushy job because you don’t have to work hard, you don’t have to work long hours, and you [...]

Below are some things that Teri and I wrote out several years ago as we prepared to come to Ireland to do ministry.  I am not sure what prompted it or where all the ideas came from, but I think that many of them would be good for us to live by now in our [...]

I read the following by Dave Early on “10 Marks of an Effective Church” looking at the book of Acts to see what made the church of Antioch effective: Effective Evangelism (Acts 11:19-20) Multicultural Outreach and Appeal (Acts 11:19) Evidence of God’s Presence and Pleasure (Acts 11:21-23) Godly Leadership (Acts 11:24, 13:2) Visible Growth and [...]

I read this encouraging story today from a sermon by W. A. Criswell called “The Armor of God”: Oklahoma, as you know, was Indian territory, and our denomination, our Baptist people sent missionaries to Oklahoma. And two of these missionaries were laboring in the western part of the state, and they were living in tents and they [...]

We are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organisation.  God’s [...]