Women and Missions

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Editorial Comment Editorial

Editorial Comment

It is truly embarrassing (for men) to review the extraordinary impact of women in Christian mission.

Are women superior beings? Have you ever heard of a woman serial killer? Why are our prisons...

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MF Behind the Scenes

An Open Invitation to Our Readers to Join Us as Partners in Reaching the Unreached

What is Mission Frontiers all about and where is it headed? What are its goals? You may have wondered about this yourself.

For some time now I have been asking myself, "How well do our readers...

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The AD2000 Women’s Track Other

The AD2000 Women’s Track

Mobilizing women around the world

Women from many parts of Russia gathered at the Black Sea at Stalin's former KGB resort in May of 1996 for a prayer and evangelism seminar sponsored by the AD2000 Women's Track. Many of these were...

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A Living Legacy: Feature

A Living Legacy:

Amy Carmichael and the Origin of the Dohnavur Fellowship

Amy Carmichael was born in Ireland in 1867. At the age of 26 she was sent to Japan as a missionary. Her stay in Japan was shortened as a result of poor health and she returned to Great Britain in...

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Women in Mission Feature

Women in Mission

A stirring tale of their pioneering spirit from the pages of Scripture to the present day

After the last road ended, it was a two-day hike to where the Balangao people lived. The Balangao, a tribe of former headhunters, still sacrificed to powerful and demanding spirits who caused...

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Depopulation Bomb

Poor women around the world are being pushed into sterilization and gruesome fertility experiments--and you're paying for it. 

What are you going to do so you don't become pregnant again?"

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Strength in the Face of Adversity Feature

Strength in the Face of Adversity

I think it takes a deep, spiritual encounter with the cross before we're really qualified to call ourselves missionaries.

In a great number of North American evangelical homes today, Elisabeth...

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Blessing Women in Missions Feature

Blessing Women in Missions

Demonstrating their profound value and empowering them with strength for service.

Frontiers was founded by Greg and Sally Livingstone in 1984 for the exclusive purpose of sending teams to plant churches among Muslims. Each team is individually responsible for integrating women...

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Elizabeth Greene: Pioneer Pilot Other

Elizabeth Greene: Pioneer Pilot

The area of missions specialization that has been the most closed to women has been that of aviation, and yet even that specialization was initiated largely through the efforts of a woman pilot,...

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Joy Ridderhof Feature

Joy Ridderhof

Through her joy-filled faith and and passion for souls, thousands of people groups have a record of the Gospel.

What could God do with a woman full of faith and love for Him? What could He do...

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Keith Green Commands a New Generation to Go into Missions Other

Keith Green Commands a New Generation to Go into Missions

Editors Note: In the last year of his life through the influence of Youth With A Mission's John Dawson, Keith became a World Christian and began mobilizing his reading and listening audience of...

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Kids Korner Other

Kids Korner

Greetings!

The SW Regional EXPO was great! The attendance, speakers, workshops, and displays all exceeded our expectations, and the 38 workshops were exceptional. People formed long lines to buy...

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Editorial Comment

From the beginning of time, women have been on the hit list of Satan. He ordered an all out war on the "weaker sex" because it would be from the women's "Seed" (Gal. 3:16) that his downfall would...

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Lottie Moon: “Saint” of the Southern Baptists Feature

Lottie Moon: “Saint” of the Southern Baptists

Charlotte Diggs "Lottie" Moon (1840-1912) has often been referred to as the "Patron Saint" of Southern Baptist missions because of the influence she had on missionary outreach and giving. She was...

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Should We Stop Sending Missionaries? Raising Local Resources

Should We Stop Sending Missionaries?

Principles for avoiding the corrupting power of money.

In an ongoing effort to deal with the important issues surrounding the use of Western money to support indigenous mission work, we are featuring the comments of Christian leaders from various...

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Women Missionaries Hold Key to Reaching Muslim Communities Feature

Women Missionaries Hold Key to Reaching Muslim Communities

More women missionaries are needed to help play a crucial role in taking the Gospel to the largest unreached people groups in the world. They are better placed to have an impact in some Islamic...

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Nashville to the Nations Other

Nashville to the Nations

Perspectives Coordinator making an impact in Music City.

The city of Nashville, Tennes-see is known for music. It is the home for both country music and contemporary Christian music in America. If Nashville Perspectives and USCWM Regional Office...

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Navajo Nation Places Hopes of Stability on Their First Christian President Other

Navajo Nation Places Hopes of Stability on Their First Christian President

When Kelsey Bagaye was wrapped with the red, black and white chief's blanket on January 12 this year, more was placed on him than the Presidency of the Navajo nation. The Navajo are hoping Bagaye...

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Wed Only to Their Master Other

Wed Only to Their Master

The vast majority of single Protestant missionaries who ventured forth to distant shores had no commitment to singleness. They were single for one simple reason: there were not enough male...

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Marianna Slocum: The Chol, The Tzeltal and the Bachajon Thank You Feature

Marianna Slocum: The Chol, The Tzeltal and the Bachajon Thank You

Many single womenmissionaries indulge in the fantasy that one day the man of their dreams--a handsome single male missionary--will appear on the scene and romance will follow. And for women...

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Rebecca St. James Calls Her Generation to Holiness and Missions Feature

Rebecca St. James Calls Her Generation to Holiness and Missions

She's only 21 years old, but Rebecca St. James is impacting hundreds of thousands of young people with a vision for holiness and missions. Originally from Australia, this popular Christian...

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Sacrificing Our Small World for His “Every Tongue, Tribe and Nation” Feature

Sacrificing Our Small World for His “Every Tongue, Tribe and Nation”

WHEN I WAS A SENIOR at Wheaton College, my roommates and I had Greg Parsons, the director of the U.S. Center for World Mission, over for dinner. Halfway through the meal, Greg asked me what I...

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