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November 2017
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Building for the future in Mongolia
Welcome to Mongolia: a country with as many people as Wales, spread across an area four times the size of Germany and almost seven times the size of the UK! Perhaps you’ve never noticed Mongolia on a map, enveloped by borders with Russia and China, and yet it’s time to start taking note of…
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By Gerald Mitchum
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August 2006
Mongolia
Missionary Spotlight – Eating scrolls in Mongolia – Dr Gerald Mitchum
I have never actually eaten a scroll, but I have eaten some meals in Mongolia that would make a scroll look like a gourmet feast. However, I know some of our western food in equally repulsive to our Mongolian friends. But God told Ezekiel in Chapter 3:1 of his book, ‘Eat this scroll’. Did…
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By Gerald and Frances Mitchum
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October 2004
Mongolia
Missionary Spotlight – Mongolia – ten years on
Not a few ‘wordsmiths’ have tried to capture a cloud on paper with a pen. Standing in the desert in Mongolia, I turn full circle and on all sides see the earth surrounded by floating balls of cotton-wool. Try to touch them and they are not there, but from where I stand they…
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By Hugh Kemp
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October 2002
Mongolia
Missionary Spotlight – Change in Mongolia
Mongolia experienced colossal political changes between 1990 and 1993. The 1990 elections initiated two years of democratic reform. The Soviets left, the constitution was rewritten, and there was talk of Mongolia becoming another Asian economic tiger. Democracy and market reform had come to stay. From a missionary perspective, Mongolia was then a clean…
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By Gerald and Frances Mitchum
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July 2002
Mongolia
Missionary Spotlight-Building in Mongolia
The words ‘Oh you of little faith’ aptly described us four years ago when we first saw the tiny village of Red Mouth, in Mongolia. We witnessed a meeting there to organise herders into a co-operative, so that they would have better buying and marketing leverage. A left-wing government was in power and, interestingly,…
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July 2002
Mongolia
Missionary Spotlight-Facts
Area: 604,250 square miles. Neighbouring countries: China and Russia. Environment: Landlocked, with a harsh, continental climate, desert plains (especially the Gobi Desert), grassy steppes and forests. The west is mountainous. There are frequent dust (or snow) storms, grassland fires and drought. Water for irrigation or drinking is scarce. Natural resources: Oil and coal; minerals,…
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By Stephen Howard
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July 2002
Mongolia
Missionary Spotlight-A cautionary tale
My wife and I came to Mongolia three years ago, to work in rural areas. We knew that much had happened in the country since the end of communism more than ten years ago. A fast-growing church was emerging. Mongolians were reaching out to neighbours at home and to people beyond Mongolia. We heard…
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By Hugh Kemp
Article
July 2002
Mongolia
Missionary Spotlight-Mongolia – land of contradictions
The Gobi desert paid me a visit today: icy wind, sand, rain and snow all arrived together, screaming off the steppe, lashing around me, boring sand into eyes, nose, ears and mouth. I am getting warm again in our apartment on the top floor of a building in the eastern sector of Ulaanbaatar. The…
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By Gerald Mitchum
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October 2001
Mongolia
Missionary Spotlight – Moving mountains in Mongolia
On the other side of the mountain lies a place of intense darkness. A place where for hundred of years Satan has owned ‘the real estate’, and the power of darkness penetrates the countryside. Alcohol deadens the minds of the men and makes them easy captives of demonic forces. The most striking building…
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