Stories
September 3, 2010
At Access Partners, we’re passionate about building businesses that create opportunities for the gospel. Often, the contexts in which we work have a natural antipathy towards foreigners and, by extension, the gospel that they bring. Business allows church planters to live natural lives in the midst of a community, being salt and light, thus enabling… Read More >>
August 6, 2010
Editor’s note: These vignettes are taken from the journal of a member of a Business Support Team (BST) we recently sent overseas to teach at a Language Training Center. The writer has a pronounced heart to see the people of this country saved. We hope you enjoy reading what she learned while she taught these… Read More >>
July 16, 2010
Peter* lives in a naturally beautiful Central Asian city. The amazing landscape attracts foreign tourists in droves. At the same time, the city is located in a spiritual open field – with almost no Christians or churches. Eager to benefit from the interest in tourism, the local government has made it easy for foreigners to… Read More >>
June 10, 2010
North India is a diverse place. It’s a land of packed cities and vast dense plainlands, of traffic, bureaucracy, ritual, spices, vivid colors, and rich smells. The cities are hectic, urbanized places where the rich live well and the poor live in ever-growing slums. There, a unique mix of contemporary and ancient India exists, of… Read More >>
April 26, 2010
Editor’s Note: These notes are from the journal of one of Access Partner’s staff about a trip to Central Asia. Details have been modified, but the stories of God’s work are true. We hope you’re encouraged. Day 1 – Last night, we attended a small church which met on a busy commercial street. I later… Read More >>
March 26, 2010
Chinese Police Kidnap Pastor. Missionaries’ and Christians’ Homes Burned in Bangladesh. Iraq: 2,000 Christians killed since 2003. Indian Bishops Arrested for Preaching Against Persecution of Christians. These are just a few recent headlines from the 10/40 window that illustrate the prevalence of religious persecution in countries where Access Partners operates. What is the Christian response… Read More >>
February 5, 2010
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… Read More >>
November 25, 2009
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… Read More >>
October 16, 2009
“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… Read More >>
September 28, 2009
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… Read More >>