Lose weight. Get out of debt. Learn something new. Exercise more. According to one survey, these are just a few of the most common 2010 New Year’s Resolutions. We set these goals with the intention of improving the way we live. But have you spent much time thinking about how you are actively promoting God’s [...]

10 Things Access Partners is Thankful for This Year
Then Samuel took a stone…and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, “Till now the LORD has helped us.” 1 Samuel 7:12

We have many reminders of how the Lord has helped us in our work this past year.
God placed resources on our path when we needed them [...]

“You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me,” the apostle Paul told the crowd of Ephesian elders as he brought his work in that city to a close. For three years he had labored among them, planting a church in a land that had never known [...]

The men and women along the Silk Road have never heard the gospel. They have never met a Christian. They have never even stood in the same marketplace with a Christian, lived in the same town as a Christian, or imagined that a Christian, in their isolated Muslim world, would ever touch their lives. After [...]

House churches in Central Asia
Editors note: Some of the common questions we receive relate to the kinds of ministry work that are enabled by the church planters we support. In light of this, we thought it would be good to give you a peek into the world of house churches. We interviewed a few missionaries [...]

A look at missions through the centuries
In 1731, Ludwig von Zinsendorf, a German count who had turned his estate in Saxony into a refuge for persecuted Moravian Christians, traveled to Holland for the coronation of a new king. At the palace, Zinsendorf struck up conversation with a slave named Anthony from Saint Thomas, a [...]

(A Letter from the Founders)
I love the mixing of cultures.  As I write, I am in an Eastern European country overhearing a Beyonce song on the radio and eating a delicious local fried pumpkin dish.  On another street, there are stylish cafes serving $0.80 espressos amid traditional buildings—effects of the recent economic boom in the [...]

Dan and Alyson Merk have faced numerous culture clashes—the humorous and the awkward—over the past eight years of life in Central Asia. Cows and goats wandering their streets have become an afterthought. Reliable utilities are never taken for granted. Neighbors are, and will ever be, unavoidably social. In fact, the Merks’ cultural immersion has been [...]

Ryan’s* city is a mosaic of the old and the new. Drab gray apartment complexes are a common remnant from the Soviet era, but Western-style malls bustle with activity. McDonalds have sprung up in various niches across the city; and, until the recent economic downturn, construction cranes dotted the cityscape in every direction.
But the tension [...]

John and Marie* are church planters who work in one of the Kingdom-minded businesses we support in the 10/40 window. Due to security concerns, you may not know their faces, their exact location on the globe, or the specifics of their work. However, through this article, we hope you can clearly hear their voices, thank the Lord for this brother and sister in Christ, and pray with us.