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Finding Slavery in my Own Backyard
…additional 17,500 new victims are trafficked across our borders each year. Over thirty thousand more slaves are transported through the United States on their way to other international destinations. Attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice have prosecuted slave trade activity in ninety-one cities across the United States and in…
The Global Slave Trade
…aided the brick factory in 2004, resulting in release certificates for 78 people who had been held as slaves. Together with their families, 138 men, women and children were released from the kiln. Nagaraj now owns and operates his own brick kiln, and his children are free to go to…
Will Your Agency be Ready for P.E.A.C.E.?
…aid to an agency-only audience, “We need your expertise and your help.” Raise honest questions. Understanding what P.E.A.C.E. is not raises as many questions as it does answers. For example, how will churches here in the U.S. identify or connect with “near-neighbor” churches around the world? How effective will these…
Saul’s Armor and David’s Sling
…aid to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied” (1 Samuel 17:45). David saw his battle with Goliath as a spiritual confrontation…
Root Canals and “Real” Ministry
…aid to say the right words. Statistics show that we will never reach the world through full-time workers alone. We will continue to see only small gains in many of the difficult places until we see the whole Body of Christ engaged and seeing themselves as active, everyday, servants of…
What’s Happening in the Global Perspectives Family?
…addition, we received reports from five specialized curricula of the Perspectives Family. (Specialized curricula are inspired by and/or complementary to standard curricula.) Kairos is an eight-lesson curriculum formerly known as the Condensed World Mission Course. Kairos is used in 17 countries and eight languages to introduce church leaders and laypeople…
Affinity Blocs and People Clusters
…addles North Africa and West Asia. The Muslim Arab conquests led to Arab cultural dominance over the North African Berbers and people groups of northern Sudan, and thus these are included in a bloc which covers most of the areas where Arabic is the dominant language. South East Asian: This…
Outside the Lines
…addition to their burgeoning list of children’s mission curricula. Presented in CD and DVD formats, the material (lesson plans and student materials, music, video clips, activity patterns and directions) can be used concurrently with adult Perspectives courses, or adapted to Sunday School or weekly club offerings. Outside the Lines is…
Which Peoples Need Priority Attention?
…addition, there are 92 groups that are shared between the IMB and the JP lists, 33 that are shared between the IMB and WCD lists, and 196 that are shared between the JP and WCD lists. I say “at the moment” because this is very much a “first stab” at…
God’s Patchwork Quilt
…attitude of Palembang is generally more hard-line than in the rest of the province, where people struggle to survive amidst poverty. Increased income from oil, mining, and other industries goes mainly to those at the pinnacle of the economic hierarchy. The indigenous peoples of South Sumatra are now joined by…
Unveiling God
…aid aside His heavenly glory and humbled Himself, suffered thorns and bloodshed to save us. Out of His great love, He endured the cross for us to free us from the powers of evil, sin and death and reconcile us to Himself. By His death and resurrection He paid the…
All Four Items Necessary in Every Engagement?
…attaching for too long creates dependency? To get to a CPM, you have to do CPM things. Having accessed 13 CPMs, our department has learned a lot, and foremost among them is Jeff’s point – you increase your chances of getting to a CPM by holding missionaries accountable for those…
What Does it Mean to Effectively “Engage” a People?
…address the quality of mission activity among a people. Therefore, we aren’t looking simply for any effort that contains “evangelistic activity,” but for strategic activity which will most likely produce “fruit that remains.” So perhaps the term should be “effective engagement”, or at least it should be understood that this…
Editorial Comment
…aid. My suggestion: let’s stop talking about “church planting.” Why? Because of what we often assume a “church” to be. We Americans live in a country where families are almost expected to drift apart, creating artificially “individualized” people. Thus, as a result we produce artificial “church” fellowships which collect loose…
Letters to the Editor
…adding and clarifying several points related to the “Maximizing the Bible” article which was written by my wife and me. The aim of this letter is to address three issues: the growing non-C5 ministry happening in the people group where I work, the use of the term “insider”, and my…
Are We Accelerating or Inhibiting Movements to Christ?
…ate the spread of the gospel. These “accelerators” may help a new fellowship in an unreached people group become a large-scale movement to Christ. By contrast, we may consciously or inadvertently deploy “inhibitors” that may make it difficult for that fellowship to ever become a movement. A Word about Movements…
Editorial Comment
…aid that we basically want to see genuine personal and family faith spread throughout a society. This might happen somewhat like the Biblical parable of yeast working its way through a lump of dough. Others want to see at least families gathering weekly to worship. Others want church buildings to…
Nurturing a New Generation of “Pauline” and “Petrine” Apostles
…ates that apostleship is a calling, not a gift nor an especially gifted or powerful person. I strongly agree. I do not think that an apostle is such a person, or someone who gives oversight to large churches or groups of churches. (The latter more closely resemble “bishops,” such as…
News & Notes
…addition of a PrayerTools icon and links throughout the site that point readers to the Global Prayer Digest, the Ethne movement, and other resources. More mission agencies are giving increasing attention to modes of communication suitable to oral learners. The International Orality Network is a prominent example of the momentum…
Vision 2025 Rapidly Accelerating the Pace of Bible Translation
…attached to it. But you know God is going to accomplish what He says He is going to accomplish if you’re committed to Revelation 7:9 – a vision of every tongue, tribe, and people group worshipping before His throne.