Sources: Various
Forests in the Seed: How Kingdom Movements Are Multiplying Across the Unreached World, by William J. Dubois, Stan Parks, and Justin Long. Patmos Education Group, 2024. 269 pages.
Forests in the Seed tells how God is working in amazing ways to bring the gospel to people everywhere through multiplying disciples and churches in the most challenging places in the world.
I appreciate how it blends story and strategy, graciously but helpfully addresses common objections to movements, and briefly compares what we see today with previous movements like Methodism, the Naga revival, or, going back further, the Celtic and Slavic mission movements.
The book also illustrates how God has used “families” of related movements to start new movements and reach other groups in their regions. One family of 90 movements in Southeast Asia has impacted more than 130 unreached groups. Another movement family in South Asia has spread to more than 400 people groups in 12 years, reaching not only Hindus but engaging with Muslims, Sikhs, animists, and others.
“We are thrilled to see over 2,000 movements,” say the authors, “but we realize we probably need 50 times as many.”
Learn more or buy the book for US$11.95 to $16.95. Looks like you can only get it through Amazon, which is too bad, but the authors have scheduled several free days for the Kindle edition, including February 28 (tomorrow, if you’re keeping up with email!)
See also another new book about movements, this one focused on Africa. Living Fire: Advancing God’s Kingdom in Challenging Places describes 22 factors that enable these movements to ignite, accelerate, and sustain the advance of the gospel among unreached groups, illustrated with powerful stories from the messengers leading the ministries.