Your Relationship to the World

The links on this page have been placed here to help you grow in your relationship with your "world" -- the special people within your sphere of influence.  If you have any comments, please feel free to contact us!

Montpellier, France, is a city of over 400,000 people which is desperately in need of the gospel. Are you interested in missions?

• What is God's will for your life?  Many women struggle with wondering if God has a greater purpose for their lives than just being a wife or mother.  Men wonder why God doesn't spell out a specific career choice for them to follow.  This article will encourage you!

• Would you like to know what your spiritual gifts are?

Sharing Your Faith

• What are American's views about afterlife?

• Equip.Org will help you learn to have an answer to anyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope that you have (1 Peter 3:15).

• Encourage someone today -- send them an e-card from Dayspring or Crosscards

• How can you help your kids have a heart for the world?

• Make Halloween an opportunity to share Christ with others.

• Start a Christmas tradition of blessing another family!

• Stand to Reason is a Christian website whose purpose is to teach you how to defend your faith in a knowledgeable yet gracious way.

• Baptists for Life -- pregnancy care and helpful advice for reaching out to the hurting

Mission Agencies/Missionaries

• 10 Ways to Encourage Missionaries!

• The Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) is a mission agency close to my heart!

• Village Missions reaches rural communities in North America for Jesus Christ

• New Tribes Mission takes the gospel to tribal cultures all around the world

• Wycliffe Bible Translators

Help for Ministry Families

• Pastor's Wives Resource Page -- a help for ministry wives, with encouragement, recipes for potlucks, bulletin board ideas, and more to help both new and experienced ministry wives.

• Peter's Wife is a website that offers help and encouragement for women living cross-culturally, although I think any pastor's wife would appreciate this site -- any wife, in fact! 

• Are you a pastor's wife?  I've personally enjoyed Parsonage.org, especially their articles for women married to a pastor.

• Another resource for pastor's wives and other ministry women is Sarah's Tent.

Books We Love -- Having a Heart for the World

• Operation World:  When We Pray God Works, by Patrick Johnstone -- a one-year prayer guide to interceding for people all around the world

• The Vanishing Ministry, by Woodrow Kroll - I think everyone should read this book at least once before choosing a career!

• What Color is Your Parachute?  A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, by Richard Nelson Bolles - While this book wasn't written for Christians, it contains wise advice for choosing a career that fits your passions, your abilities, your personality and your goals for your life.