Trailblazing E-Newsletter - Summer 2012

Join us for 9 lifechanging days in the Holy Land This fall, Josh and Dottie McDowell, along with their son, Sean, are leading a remarkable tour through the Holy Land. Consider this your personal invitation to join them!

The tour will be a fallin-love-with-Scripture encounter as you experience afresh the evidence for the truth about your faith.

See truth, and experience the evidence in its historical and cultural setting. Your life will be changed and your faith invigorated.

Tour stops include: ➤ Tel Aviv

YOU can send Undaunted all over the world!

Each $6.25 will provide an Undaunted kit to one person. Every kit is tailored to be most effective in the country where it will be used.

The ultimate goal is to encourage men, women and children into a relationship with Jesus Christ.

The newsletter of Josh McDowell Ministry

With your gift today, you can change the future for a person who needs Jesus. Men and women from around the world who have seen this film have made it crystal clear:

“We need Undaunted in our country.”

Think of the multiplying effect your gift can have! Each DVD will be passed among family and friends.

Every person who sees it will share this powerful video with other people in their lives.

At an international premiere of this film, Vonette Bright, co-founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, prayed that a revival will spark throughout the world through Undaunted. Please pray that people of all ages will find renewed courage to live for Christ, even when it means overcoming the shame of their past.

Please send your gift today.

For a gift of $75, we’ll send you a copy of Undaunted for you and your family.

Every $6.25 =

ONE Undaunt ed

➤ Caesarea ➤ Mount of Olives ➤ Sea of Galilee ➤ Capernaum ➤ Jerusalem ➤ Gethsemane ➤ Wailing Wall ➤ Temple Mount And many more!

Reserve your spot and learn more at www.josh.org/et

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kit

Every $6.25 you send will provide an Undaunted DVD and follow-up materials that share the message of Christ’s love and forgiveness.

UNDAUNTED

You can help turn this film about Josh McDowell’s early life into the next major evangelism tool, bringing hope and comfort to millions and introducing broken people to Jesus Christ

For more than 50 years, the Lord has used Josh McDowell to turn skeptics into fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

The release of Undaunted: The Early Life of Josh McDowell, puts Josh’s testimony of coming to faith in Christ in spite of overwhelming obstacles in a new, accessible format.

Many believe that Undaunted is poised to become the 2001 West Plano Parkway Suite 2400 • Plano, TX 75075 972.907.1000 • www.josh.org

next great evangelism tool.

YOU can be a part of sending this powerful movie around the world. Josh McDowell Ministry plans to translate the film into more than 50 languages in response to requests from around the world.

Ministry partners across the globe tell us of the massive impact Josh’s story could have in their country.

Read more about Undaunted inside. See how you can get involved in reaching the world for Jesus Christ.

Learn more inside

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Undaunted: “ripping back the veil of shame” all over the world Undaunted will pave the way for thousands of people to open their hearts to Jesus Christ. Josh’s childhood, characterized by an an alcoholic father, family dysfunction, and sexual abuse from a hired farm worker, resulted in his skepticism and resistance of faith in Christ. Undaunted is the true story of God’s life-changing power. n

“My hope is that this becomes one of many resources that God uses to break down barriers overseas — especially in other cultures.” — Josh McDowell

In advance screenings around the world, men and women are leaving Undaunted changed. They are looking at life in a whole new way. They want their friends, families and loved ones to see the movie and experience the same life change.

What people around the world are saying about

Undaunted

Here are some of the comments we’ve received from early viewers of the movie: “This film will touch your heart with deep personal conviction and the need for a personal relationship with Christ. Really touched my heart. Josh, your early life story is powerful, heartfelt and full of passion.”

— Ginto “Undaunted is a truly moving, beautiful and understandable testimony of the power of accepting Jesus Christ into your life.”

— Marcia

We’ve targeted strategic languages for the production of Undaunted. Ministry leaders around the world are asking for Undaunted DVDs in their language.

The Power of Undaunted We have shown Undaunted: The Early Life of Josh McDowell to audiences around the world.

One man in the Middle East watched the movie with rapt attention. Afterwards, he broke down and wept, saying:

“You gave us your life today.

You’ve ripped back the veil of shame that has covered our country.”

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“This is a story of forgiveness and how only Jesus, in you, can enable you to forgive in the most difficult circumstances. I believe this is one of Jesus’ miracles.”

— Rozann

Christian leaders offer praise for Undaunted “Undaunted is a compelling and riveting story of a good friend, a hero in the faith.

Not only is it an unforgettable story of redemption, but this docudrama is going to bring vision and hope to the most wounded generation in our nation’s history. Millions are going to see it and conclude: God can use ME!” Dr. Dennis Rainey President, FamilyLife “For 50 years, Josh McDowell has believed the gospel of Jesus Christ changes lives. Undaunted is his personal changed-life story. It deeply touched my life. The sky is the limit on how this film can be used around the world!”

Mark Householder Athletes in Action

From Josh

Undaunted into the next decade of ministry Shame is one of the most powerful human emotions.

It brings powerful people to their knees. If not in the public eye, then in the quietness of their own homes and hearts.

For many years, I dealt quietly with a powerful shame. Growing up in a home with an abusive, alcoholic father, I developed a strong sense of shame about who he was and how his actions made everyone else look down at me.

When I endured sexual abuse as a child, the shame in me cut deep. I didn’t think I could ever be whole again.

And I didn’t think that if there was a God that He would allow such terrible things to happen.

Decades later, I write to you as a whole person.

Whole because of what Jesus Christ has done in my life. Whole because of Jesus’ sacrifrice on the cross.

In sharing this story, my prayer is that God will use it to bring millions of people to faith in Christ.

He is the one who is making all things new!

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Join us for 9 lifechanging days in the Holy Land This fall, Josh and Dottie McDowell, along with their son, Sean, are leading a remarkable tour through the Holy Land. Consider this your personal invitation to join them!

The tour will be a fallin-love-with-Scripture encounter as you experience afresh the evidence for the truth about your faith.

See truth, and experience the evidence in its historical and cultural setting. Your life will be changed and your faith invigorated.

Tour stops include: ➤ Tel Aviv

YOU can send Undaunted all over the world!

Each $6.25 will provide an Undaunted kit to one person. Every kit is tailored to be most effective in the country where it will be used.

The ultimate goal is to encourage men, women and children into a relationship with Jesus Christ.

The newsletter of Josh McDowell Ministry

With your gift today, you can change the future for a person who needs Jesus. Men and women from around the world who have seen this film have made it crystal clear:

“We need Undaunted in our country.”

Think of the multiplying effect your gift can have! Each DVD will be passed among family and friends.

Every person who sees it will share this powerful video with other people in their lives.

At an international premiere of this film, Vonette Bright, co-founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, prayed that a revival will spark throughout the world through Undaunted. Please pray that people of all ages will find renewed courage to live for Christ, even when it means overcoming the shame of their past.

Please send your gift today.

For a gift of $75, we’ll send you a copy of Undaunted for you and your family.

Every $6.25 =

ONE Undaunt ed

➤ Caesarea ➤ Mount of Olives ➤ Sea of Galilee ➤ Capernaum ➤ Jerusalem ➤ Gethsemane ➤ Wailing Wall ➤ Temple Mount And many more!

Reserve your spot and learn more at www.josh.org/et

THE POWER TO CHANGE LIVES IS IN YOUR HANDS! 17874-Newsletter.indd 1

Summer 2012

kit

Every $6.25 you send will provide an Undaunted DVD and follow-up materials that share the message of Christ’s love and forgiveness.

UNDAUNTED

You can help turn this film about Josh McDowell’s early life into the next major evangelism tool, bringing hope and comfort to millions and introducing broken people to Jesus Christ

For more than 50 years, the Lord has used Josh McDowell to turn skeptics into fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

The release of Undaunted: The Early Life of Josh McDowell, puts Josh’s testimony of coming to faith in Christ in spite of overwhelming obstacles in a new, accessible format.

Many believe that Undaunted is poised to become the 2001 West Plano Parkway Suite 2400 • Plano, TX 75075 972.907.1000 • www.josh.org

next great evangelism tool.

YOU can be a part of sending this powerful movie around the world. Josh McDowell Ministry plans to translate the film into more than 50 languages in response to requests from around the world.

Ministry partners across the globe tell us of the massive impact Josh’s story could have in their country.

Read more about Undaunted inside. See how you can get involved in reaching the world for Jesus Christ.

Learn more inside

5/8/12 2:10 PM