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This body of believers asks for your prayers as they try to reach their community. There are villages near them that still practice black magic and witchcraft. They want nothing more than to see the name of Jesus spread and their land healed.

He has revealed many characteristics of Himself and reminds me that no matter what the external view of the nations may look like- they are still created in His image (Genesis 1:26) and that they too will get to experience Him (Revelation 7:9-10). Therefore, I can truly enjoy the ride and allow God to take the wheel!

How beautiful is it that our fruitfulness is dependent on our relationship with God? Above performance, work, or anything that we could strive for on our own, the Father really desires relationship with us. This text has been a great reminder to me in this season to slow down and prioritize my relationship with the Father, and that only then can we see fruit in the work that He invites us into.

I thought forward to my returning to Base Town where I would see my local friend Annie again. I cried out to God, “It seems hopeless for this people group… for Annie who always says that our faith has gotten us both where we are and that they are both good. When will you send someone to these people to stay longer than a few days or months?”

Interested in learning how to steward your finances for the Great Commission? Here are five easy and unique ways to give to Cafe 1040.

Life is not about doing things for God--even good things. It's about seeking and knowing Him.

Dear Summer,
Thank you for teaching me what I desperately needed to know.
In a dry, dusty place you taught me where to find home.
Yet it wasn't really you at all, but the Father.

2020 was a year unlike any we’ve ever seen. Yet despite the chaos, lockdowns, and hardship, God continued to use Cafe 1040 to do amazing work among the nations. Please enjoy our annual report and join us in celebrating all that God has done in the most unusual of years.

No Christian is meant to live in isolation, so no missionary is meant to live in isolation. Bible precedent for this. We don’t all have the same gifts as Paul. Team is a group of missionaries who meet together regularly, working together intentionally for the spread of the gospel. We need others alongside of us in this task.

The Great Commission is not dependent on you or me or any other worker...it is a privilege to be a part of what He is doing across the world. But He does allow his children to be a piece of His work. It’s often a theme that when Jesus gives someone a dream about himself, that person doesn’t start fully believing in Him or following Him until someone else comes along to tell that person what the dream is about and who this Jesus is. It amazes me.

“I do not have a favorite Bible story because my favorite is the entire Bible, the old and the new. All of it speaks God’s love, every single word. How can I choose one story if every word is Him telling me how much He loves me?” – Local believer in Southeast Asia

Generations are why Cafe 1040 exists. We exist to raise up a new generation. A generation that will go to those without access to the gospel and to change generations to come. A generation to raise the next generation to change future generations.

What could happen if Christians all over the world cared about Ramadan in this way? What could happen if we consistently and fervently cried out to God on their behalf over this Ramadan season?

Here’s the thing: the missions world needs you. Teams need you. Families need you. You are a force, a breath of fresh air, a teammate and a friend.You are the glue that holds a team together. You are a gap-filler that makes a healthy, well-rounded, high-capacity team. You are uninhabited by challenge and change. You are free to obey passionately when He calls.

3.1 billion people are in such a dark place they offer up gifts to a god, yet they haven't heard that they can receive the ultimate gift of life. The gift that doesn't require a bell or a giant mountain top temple... He just wants our hearts. He wants all of us for His glory. He already won the victory.

Our transformed lives are the product of an infinitely loving and gracious Father who seeks us out and calls us to himself. The power of our Creator, who made all things and in him all things hold together, the power of our shepherd who restores our souls, and who leads us by his voice, the power of God incarnate, who pardoned our iniquity by dying on the cross, providing a way for us to be made righteous before God, and giving us access to a real relationship with a perfect and holy God—there are so many more things to talk about in terms of increasing enjoyment in God and how his Word is fully true, alive, and does not return void.

But there is rest for the fearful, hope for the hopeless, and sight for the blind in Jesus Christ. I'm encouraged knowing I have a relationship with the One who casts out fear, who is my eternal hope, and who gives me a vision and the assurance of my future. This motivates me to pray without ceasing, fervently asking God to draw these lost sheep to him.

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This echoes so true when you are fearful. When has He ever failed? Why would He start now? He never fails us— what peace that brings. Fear has turned into peace over and over again because the Father is so good. From preparing for this trip to being here 7 weeks, He is good, all the time.

We praise God for what He has accomplished through us. It is His work. He simply invites us to be a part of it. And what a privilege that invitation is to accept.