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A Model for Determining the Most Needy Unreached or Least-Reached Peoples
…addressed almost three years ago: “Which peoples need priority attention?” To do so, we have invited Dan Scribner (director of Joshua Project) to share his perspective. For our following (January-February) issue, we have invited Todd Johnson (director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity) to tackle the same…
Letters to the Editor
…aid off in the first year, but I wish there had been someone there to give us the godly advice to not sign for it. -Bob Genheimer
Editorial Comment
…aid to himself before entering the domain of Abimelech, “these people have no fear of God.” After the massive new interest in Islam following 9/11, we find most Americans make two major mistakes when they think about Muslims. They think Muslims are spiritually unresponsive, when in fact many are true,…
Learning from a Parable
…aid they would talk to you occasionally, but for the most part they claimed allegiance to Jesus Christ. This was a martyr who lived about 2000 years ago. My father told them that we accepted Jesus too, in our respect for great men. But for some reason they said it…
Bridges in Baghdad (Circa 814): Ties Between Nestorian Christians and ‘Abbasid Muslims
…aid, “because it will put us in touch with lands as far as China”.… The emphasis on true religion did not at first worsen the treatment of Christians in the empire or further exacerbate friction between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. The third caliph, Mahdi, opened his rule with a determined…
Discovering the Wandering Jesus in Central Asia
…aid to me, “Learn from these people.” In the 1980s I had been very encouraged by Don Richardson and his book Eternity In Their Hearts, which set my mind in a different direction. I really believe that in the genetic code of every nation is Christ, and people cannot get…
What Are Mission Agencies Saying and Doing about Student Debt?
…aid off by the end of their first term of service… . — Donald Trott, Executive Director of Missionary Mobilization, ABWE It’s something we struggle with on every side. One of our difficulties is wanting to encour-age students to get a full-blown Bible college education, but then the cost of…
Stumbling Blocks in the System
…aid, rather than waiting or paying off the debt slowly because the interest rates were so good. Certainly that is one part of a solution for those going via routes of traditional education. But it brings up another key issue: marriage. What if my friend had married a woman who…
Not Just Here in America
…aid. “Not in Guatemala.” “Oh yes,” he replied. “It’s worse than here.” He went on to tell me how his struggles with the Christian subculture and its accompanying isolationist and separatist beliefs almost did in his own faith growing up as the son of missionary parents there. That’s how we…
Editorial Comment
…addition? Is, after all, foreign by most of the people in India. However, in India, as Biblical faith has begun to surface significantly in Hindu cultural garments (for millions of cultural Hindus), it is a scandal to many people both there and here. But this is not the only issue…
India: It’s Closer Than You Think
…add India,”much as you might put curry powder in your favorite chicken casserole. Or make it the main dish. In the classroom consider “interest centers” with creative and interactive activities. Contests (how about the elephants vs. the tigers?), poster-making, dramatic monologues, skits, and games all lend themselves to getting a…
Student Volunteer Movement 2
…addition to Bible and Christian college campuses, local chapters from InterVarsity, Navigators, Campus Crusade, Chi Alpha, Victory Campus Ministries and other campus ministries are participating in growing measure. One aspect of seeing the vision realized is having a common call among evangelical students toward mission commitment. The “Message Bearer Creed”…
Maximum Impact Short-Term Missions
…added to the Francis-Carey-Aylward trilogy. He went out under a new agency with limited experience, and with virtually no preparation beforehand. After several years in China (note, “years”) he came back to England to found a new mission that would do things differently. Taylor now had considerable experience behind him,…
Short-Term Mission Trips:
…aid they had discovered a different kind of short-termer–one for whom doing something spectacular was not the most important thing. Before sending out His disciples on a short-term ministry assignment, Jesus told them, “Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves” (Matthew 10: 16b). Short-termers and all missionaries would do…
U.S. Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission
…ates the United States is sending at least 1,000,000 short-term mission volunteers every year. These short-term volunteers are sent by 40,000 “sending entities” consisting of 35,000 churches, 3,700 agencies, and more than 1,000 schools. Yet the missiological validity of short-term mission has been rightly questioned on countless occasions–especially when it…
Advancing Perspectives Globally
…addition, version 1.0 of the Perspectives Developer Manual was released at the December consultation. It contains further detail about the Perspectives Family, tools for curriculum developers, and a ten-point development process. This manual will be published as a PDF document, available to download at no cost by those who are…
Letters
…atest edition. Brilliant! I have a question (or two) for you guys. I read all about the big “missionary guys” meetings and all the conferences. In the long run, what is the fruit of those conferences? Where the “rubber hits the road” at the edge, where biblical faith encounters the…
Four African Churches seeking One American Partner for Long-term relationship
…ate a relationship that enriches the spiritual lives of everyone involved, and ultimately, sets the stage for Bible translation to begin in one more language. But let’s think backwards for a moment. Pick a country... Nigeria, for instance. Let’s say there is a church there, or better yet... four churches,…
The Journey Deepens
…aid Abbey Murphy, a high school senior. “It brought missionaries into my life to help me along the journey in many ways.” Jared Vedros, a university student in the Perspectives Study Program, added, “This helped solidify things about my future and expanded what I know about missions. I loved being…
Seeing but Not Understanding
…aid he didn’t have time or money. Nor do other writers in most other countries. Think about that: does your favorite North American author really know what to say to suffering believers in Myanmar? Does he or she know how to share with those from a Sino-Tibetan Buddhist background, or…