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Raising Local Resources
…aid-dependent continent! “Foreign aid [is] the predominant source of financial resources for much of the continent."1 How then to raise local resources? Donors often work on certain principles. One is that they want to work directly with nationals. This can maximise misunderstandings; donors preoccupied with fundraising have little opportunity to…
Why Are Muslims Coming to Jesus Like Never Before?
…attacks, he had no idea how this would open the hearts and minds of Muslims who would be stirred to wonder: “Is violence at the heart of Islam?” Many Muslims want to answer, “No,” and are troubled by Qur‘anic passages advocating violence and by their terrorist cousins’ continuing attacks on…
Translation of Familial Language in the Bible
…aid, “I can’t accept this! We know that Jesus was born from a virgin and did not have a human father!” She protested strongly that Joseph could not have been Jesus’ biological father, and she cited this statement in Luke as “proof that the Bible has been corrupted and is…
Community-Based Orphan Care
…AIDS orphan crisis has outpaced the ability of Westerners to build such institutions, and as a result a healthy partnership is emerging between orphan ministries and affected communities. The traditional way that Africans have cared for orphans is through the extended family network. So why not work with communities and…
…aid, “I can’t accept this! We know that Jesus was born from a virgin and did not have a human father!” She protested strongly that Joseph could not have been Jesus’ biological father, and she cited this statement in Luke as “proof that the Bible has been corrupted and is…
A Church Planting Movement Unfolding in Uganda
…AIDS epidemic that has cut life expectancy for men to around 48 years and 52 years for women. Though 70-80 percent of the country claims to be Christian, the church is rife “with dependence and corruption within churches, mega churches preaching prosperity gospel, high levels of violence from the ‘Lords…
A Big Mistake
…aid in Afghanistan were murdered. One of those was Tom, who with his wife, Libby, had served in the country for 34 years. They raised three daughters there. Some of us at the USCWM met Tom and Libby when they spoke here a few times over the years. Like you,…
Embracing Your Mission Journey to the Nations
…aid to the “growers”—the strategic mobilizers, church mission leaders, missionary trainers, mission agencies and support team colleagues. If you are a “goer,” you seek to move out as soon and as wisely as you can into a more active role in global mission. If you are a “grower,” then you…
Making Jesus Known in Knowable Ways
…aid they could have been sitting in any suburban white church in America. Nearly everything about the service, music, language and church culture was completely Anglo, even though most of congregants were Native. Only two of the 15 churches attended had Native pastors. Some of these churches have been on…
What God do Muslims Worship?
…aid of him. (Note: The Hebrew text actually says the name Yahweh, not the title Lord.) This verse instructs us to ignore the claims made by false prophets and not fear them. It does not say to quit calling God Yahweh, Adonai, Elohim, or Alaha, just because a false prophet…
Spiritual Vacuum
…AIDS virus have forced the government to launch an emergency campaign to distribute free needles throughout the country. At the same time, billions are being spent to construct a massive wall between the Iranian and Afghan border which is 13 feet high and 16 feet wide. The wall has become…
Muslims Who Believe the Bible
…aid to me recently, “It was not until I had read Romans that I understood the significance of the Gospels.” Then there is Revelation, which is one of the most popular books, because it speaks to them like their dreams do and describes the return of Jesus and the age…
Fruitful Practices
…aid that he heard about Jesus, but because the message was in Russian, he thought Jesus was a foreign god and he didn’t want anything to do with it. But then a cousin shared with him about the stories of the Injil in his own language, and suddenly Jesus made…
Over-Steering a Cadillac
…Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly is full of case studies illustrating the problems resulting from massive foreign development aid to Africa. Not only has tons of money been wasted but often the people end up worse off in the long…
Editorial Comment
…aid, “He not only charges for the injections he gives but for his burro and his trip across the mountain.” I got into this tense conversation by suggesting that if her clinic could only become self-supporting it could be replicated. I figured the clinic was meeting only one percent of…
The Future of Evangelicals in Mission
…aid that because the gospel is a message of hope, the poorest must see some concrete reason for hope before they can understand the gospel. Words themselves have no power if they do not refer to reality. Jesus’ words were constantly accompanied and informed by the actions to which His…
The Wilberforce Legacy
…aiders from the north attacked her small village in southern Sudan, murdering her parents and numerous others. Somehow, in the midst of the blood and bodies, she had survived. Her aunt, hearing of the attack, rushed to the village and pulled her niece from the rubble. She raised little Esther…
A Cure for Handicapped Churches
…aid is essential for survival, outside aid should be given careful consideration in order to avoid becoming a potential obstacle to healthy church planting. I am aware that some consider principles of self-support to be passé and that they should be discarded. But such principles were the foundation of sound…
Why the Rest Hates the West
…aid infiltration and hiding); instant and full news coverage (to maximize the political effect); a horror of death or of sustaining even small numbers of casualties (resulting from the absence of any deeprooted sense of transcendence and also from the sheer comfort of Westerners’ lives). After any action, the rule…
Editorial Comment
…Aid, specialize on sending funds rather than missionaries. I must apologize to this last group. We did not intend to say that sending funds to indigenous entities was a bad thing, only that it can easily go wrong (as with standard missions). What we must have failed to make clear…