March 01, 2006 by Ralph D. Winter

Editorial Comment

Dear Reader,
Undoubtedly, no movie portraying a Protestant mission effort has been as costly or as professionally done as Steve Saint’s End of the Spear, released to theaters in late January. And...

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March 01, 2006 by Ralph D. Winter

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,
[Your] November-December 2005 issue had extensive coverage that gives the impression that there is still a huge gulf between agencies that send Western missionaries and Western...

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March 01, 2006 by Ryan Shaw

Rebuilding the Corporate Student Mission Movement

The book of Nehemiah is a powerful blueprint for grasping the importance of rebuilding that which has been broken down. We find a people being unified around a common purpose and cooperating to see...

Tags: student, student volunteer movement

March 01, 2006 by Ralph D. Winter

The Uncertain Future of Missions

Comparing Notes Between Ecuador and Guatemala

Two days ago, as I write these comments, the January 20 premiere of a $33-million movie and book rolled out with great fanfare. Both movie and book are titled End of the Spear. Both graphically...

Tags: dependency, ecuador, guatemala

March 01, 2006 by Steve Saint

Pursuing “Church Cultivation”

We have largely treated the Great Commission as a spectator sport – where the highly-trained and lavishly equipped players from afar take the field, while
local believers sit in the stands to...

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March 01, 2006 by Steve Spaulding

Who’s Unreached in Asia?

This article by Steve Spaulding has been reprinted, by permission, from the November-December 2005 issue of Momentum magazine , a new online publication edited by Justin Long and intended to Òhelp...

Tags: least reached, unreached people group

March 01, 2006 by Greg Parsons

What is the Church?

Part 2

Note: Part 1 on this topic appeared in the January-February 2006 Mission Frontiers.

What do we mean by church? What are the key elements of this organism that Jesus said (in Matthew 16:18) he...

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