Short-Term IMPACT
With Long-Term Results
By Warren Hardig, Global Executive
Director, Men for Missions
In a recent Billy Graham Association Decision
magazine issue, I read that 150,000 people die
every day, most of them without Christ. The
suffering of the persecuted church and the
atrocities they endure cause me to shudder.
At the same time, there has never been a time
in the 65-year history of Men for Missions, a
global ministry of One Mission Society, that
we have had more opportunity to pray with
people around the world to accept Christ
as their Savior. We can say with the
psalmist, “Come and hear all who fear
God, and I will tell of what he has done
for my soul” (Psalm 66:16).
Currently, our fastest area of growth
in MFMG is in non-English speak-
ing countries in the Global South. We
thank the Lord for every response
to our note in ACTION magazine for
Bible sponsorship in Cuba, which has
generated enough money for approxi-
mately 45,000 Bibles to date. We are
seeing a steady flow of gifts for Bibles,
and it is humbling and gratifying to
receive gifts, both small and large.
During the Men for Missions Global
cabinet meeting last November, we
asked ourselves,
“What’s next?”
Each cabinet member knew in his
heart that we cannot be satisfied
with only sending short-term work teams to
help build 101 new homes, a church, and a school in Haiti for earth-
quake victims. We cannot be satisfied with only sending evangelism
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