Stories
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A Remarkable Intercultural Experience
September 8, 2025A huge benefit for short-term teams who venture to our city is that they are immersed in multiple cultures in one week: Yemeni, Lebanese, Iraqi, Kurdish, Afghani, Bangladeshi. When you think about the depth of their intercultural experience, it really is remarkable. This particular short-term team, mostly composed of those who had never met a… -
Core Value: Migration
September 8, 2025This is the second article in a series by our Lead Team, spotlighting the core values that define Global Gates—Prioritization, Migration, Multiplication, Catalyzation, and Collaboration. Migration: God Orchestrating World Events for His Redemptive Purpose During my university years, I experienced a profound revelation: God has a mission. The Bible isn’t merely a collection of disconnected… -
Fourth-Soil Person or Person of Peace
September 8, 2025This is the second of six compelling articles written by our seasoned missionary and author, Kevin Greeson. Originally published by Mission Frontiers, this series offers fresh insights on transforming mission work from simple addition to powerful multiplication. Each article will be shared over the coming months. To explore Kevin’s latest book, which covers many of… -
Finding Fourth-Soil People
August 11, 2025This is the first of six compelling articles written by our seasoned missionary and author, Kevin Greeson. Originally published by Mission Frontiers, this series offers fresh insights on transforming mission work from simple addition to powerful multiplication. Each article will be shared over the coming months. To explore Kevin’s latest book, which covers many of… -
Core Value: Prioritization
August 11, 2025This is the first article in a series by our Lead Team, spotlighting the core values that define Global Gates—Prioritization, Migration, Multiplication, Catalyzation, and Collaboration. Over 15 years ago, I found myself in a small room with a few friends and a young South Asian man. It was my second short-term mission trip and my… -
The Park Bench Encounter That Led to a Full-Circle Gospel Movement
August 11, 2025R* grew up in a devout Muslim household in South Asia. Faithful to his religion, he followed Islamic practices closely. But one day, everything began to change. His mother, who was ill in bed, was reading from a few pages of the New Testament—in their language. She handed those pages to her son. Through conversations… -
What Would You Risk to Follow Jesus?
July 25, 2025“You can bind my hands and my feet, but you can never bind my heart—my heart belongs to Jesus Christ.”— A believer in South Asia, sharing his faith in the face of persecution On a recent trip to South Asia, one of our Global Gates missionaries witnessed one of the most humbling and impactful moments… -
A Great Commission Generosity Strategy
July 7, 2025“In a previous role as a church mobilizer, I had the opportunity to interact with senior pastors, missions pastors, and committee members about how they stewarded church resources to align with God’s mission. In those conversations, it wasn’t uncommon to discover how relationships in the church guided the giving priorities of the church. After all,… -
Why Our Missionaries Treasure G3
July 7, 2025For missionaries laboring among unreached people groups, the work is both deeply rewarding and uniquely challenging. That’s why the Global Gates Gathering—G3—is more than just a conference; it’s a time of renewal and a reminder that they are not alone. Many missionaries say one of the greatest joys of G3 is the opportunity to connect… -
I Gave My Bible Away
July 7, 2025This isn’t the first time Jadeed has been in this situation. As a Muslim-background believer who now serves as a Global Gates Missionary Catalyst, he can’t hold onto a Bible for very long. Any Bible he gets his hands on will soon belong to a seeker or new believer. Jadeed knows a bookstore owner who… -
Missions Can Be Hard
July 7, 2025One of our missionaries was invited into the living room of a Muslim man—Fariq. Nuts and dates were shared. Tea was poured. His friend Haroun was also there. And for the first time, Fariq heard the life-changing message of Jesus. He listened intently as our missionary spoke of the love of God, the reality of… -
A Simple Request That Led to So Much More
July 7, 2025In May, a Global Gates missionary was running a Facebook ad offering free Arabic Bibles. Among the responses was a message from Nabil*, a North African man living in a major gateway city. Over Facebook Messenger, he shared that the recent death of the Pope had stirred something in his heart and prompted him to…
