EditorialEditorial Comment
This issue grasps for insight into "the new horizons" of mission. Not because we are running out of things to do.No...but because these stirring NEW HORIZONS are piling up on us. Like the...
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New Horizons in Mission
This Month's Articles
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OtherMF Behind the Scenes
Are You Seeking to Find the Best Mission Strategies?
They are coming at us more and more every day. This group or that appeals to us to support this mission strategy or another. But are all mission strategies created equal? Most would say no, but few...
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OtherHow the Film “JESUS” has become the Most Translated Film in History
Five Steps in the Translation of "JESUS:" As soon as the language selection is made, the funds are raised, and the process begins.
STEP 1: WRITTEN TRANSLATION A native speaker of the language,...
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OtherSelf-Reliance or Interdependence
A Point-Counterpoint Discussion with Gary Parker of Mustard Seed and Glenn Schwartz of World Mission Associates
Gary Parker, Mustard Seed Interdependency: Another Way
How does a mission agency avoid the dangers of dependency described by Steve Saint and commented on by Glenn Schwartz in the May-June 1998...
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OtherThe Escalating Filipino Force for the Nations
In the four brief years since its founding, the Asian Center for Missions has become the Philippines' largest agency sending workers outside the Philippine archipelago.
The Philippines have long...
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OtherPray Without Ceasing!
We are exhorted from 1 Thessalonians 5:17 to pray without ceasing. Many of the needs of the U.S. Center for World Mission require ceaseless prayer. Our campus is a major battlefield of spiritual...
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OtherKids Korner
Greetings!
Web site improved and corrected! You can easily find all the original resources from the book, Kids for the World plus the '98 Update! We've been working hard to get all the codes of...
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OtherNews
Puchon, South Korea
Mission Korea Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary with 5000 Students--and a Prayer for a Korean Student Volunteer Movement.
Amidst an economic crisis that has been working to...
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OtherLetters to the Editor
Alcohol, Tobacco and Free Will
Nicotine, Cancer, Gambling. In 1983, it was estimated (as reported in the book None of These Diseases) that smoking was responsible for a total of about 400,000...
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FeatureHorizon One: Grass Roots Mobilization Fueling the Passion in the Pew
Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod opens a seat at the table for the people in the pew and watches its mission double.
Funding the missionary enterprise is widely viewed as a daunting task: a...
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FeatureHorizon Two: A Pre-Candidate Network Global Links with Local Touch
Could we work together on a joint, nationwide pre-candidate network to move God's purposes forward?
In the book, Choosing a Future for U.S. Missions, Paul McKaughan and William and Dellanna...
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FeatureHorizon Three: Re-thinking Mission Education The Breakthrough for On-Field Mission Training
The amateurization versus professionalization debate--the two long-standing extremes in the training dimension of missionaries--is being substantially diminished as distance education reshapes the...
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Raising Local ResourcesHorizon Four: Avoiding Dependency Mobilizing Local Resources
Often we seek to mobilize global resources for local projects "over there" that we are convinced will work. Glenn Schwartz proposes a new set of priorities.
Speaking at a missions conference in...
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FeatureHorizon Five: DeWesternization/DeContextualization DeWesternization Tomorrow
Are we really ready for tomorrow's Kingdom?
A Jewish rabbi in Los Angeles has thrown down the gauntlet to wayward Westernizing Jews. He claims that his own Orthodoxy is the only genuine form of the Jewish faith. Conservative and Reformed...
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FeatureHorizon Six: Using Biculturals
Their Day Dawns Again
The strategy that catapulted the Church across the Roman Empire may foreshadow mission breakthroughs on the final frontiers.
Truly, we are racing through the last chapter of history. As our God...
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FeatureHorizon Seven: Microscopic Spiritual Warfare Massive Blind Spot?
Some "New Horizons" we took to the EFMA conference are not "new and emerging trends" but old problems that are simply blind spots. Puzzling! Are there really "blind spots? How could there be when...
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FeatureHorizon Seven: Microscopic Spiritual Warfare Massive Blind Spot?
Some "New Horizons" we took to the EFMA conference are not "new and emerging trends" but old problems that are simply blind spots. Puzzling! Are there really "blind spots? How could there be when...
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