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Developing a Flow of Care & Caregivers
…attitude toward good adjustment and ability to learn . . . . Stage 4: Departure An important aspect of the pre-field experience is the opportunity for proper farewells. The commissioning of missionaries is an important step in the process, but often the less formal aspects of departure are just as…
Going Global
…aiden to promote the resiliency and effectiveness of mission personnel, from recruitment through retirement. “Best practice” is a relatively new term within Evangelical missions, although the underlying emphasis on the quality of care has been part of Evangelical missions thinking and practice for some time. Specific examples would be the…
Editorial
…aid, “He who seeks to save himself will lose his life, while he who will lose his life for My sake and the Gospel’s will save it.” Member care and repair This is why missionary “member care” often needs to be “member repair.” A movement can’t go in just two…
Human Strategy vs. the Holy Spirit
…ates the tension present in trying to mix our culture’s penchant for organization and what the Scriptures seems to demonstrate as the leading of the Holy Spirit. There is no question that God has a plan. Space here won’t allow the 12 hours of Biblical teaching you get in the…
What’s Wrong with the Label “Managerial Missiology”
…aid it ‘has no theological or pastoral resources to cope with the suffering and persecution involved because it is geared to provide guaranteed success.’1 The other two names most readily associated with the use of the term (and who admit to having borrowed it from Escobar) are James Engel (Escobar’s…
Mission Leaders Critique the “World Christian Global Action Plan”
…attached a time frame to it. And by setting three-year or five-year goals, we can break a large project into smaller, bite-sized pieces. However, we must be careful not to give the impression that the dates we use are set in cement or come from God. A case in point…
The Inside Story Behind the “World Christian Global Action Plan”
…attached to the year 2025 or other dates. Our intent is to thereby help Mission Frontiers readers to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the WCGAP and to consider how its recommendations may apply to their own ministries and plans. Every now and then I find myself in a…
Letters
…added to the mailing list and to start receiving Mission Frontiers …. I sincerely thank you so much in advance. May God continue to richly bless you all at the Center for World Mission as you tirelessly partake in the ful.lling of the Great Commission. Mamu Trimas Goroka, Papua New…
Editorial Comment
…aid, “It has seemed clear that another life-companion would be very helpful, and I am beginning to believe that will be possible.” By now, the plans are for that life-companion and I to be united in marriage July 6, 2002. Barbara Scotchmer is the widow of the senior pastor for…
Opportunities Abound
…Address the emotional and practical barriers involved in missionaries raising financial support Encourage and promote the use of new medical technology to eliminating many of the terrible ailments which plague the unreached Inform mission agencies and personnel of the upcoming printing of significant mission books Ensure that recently returned stateside…
The Continuing Advance of Christian Faith
…added to the mix. And recent emphasis on outreach to neglected people groups has helped fill in some gaps in the map showing the locations of Christians. Despite the expansion of the past thirty years, there are still vast areas and population groups where Christians are few – represented largely…
25th Anniversary
…ated the USCWM’s 25th anniversary with a variety of events on the USCWM’s Pasadena campus. Seminars, campus tours, children’s events, and informal conversations throughout the afternoon were followed by dinner and a concluding celebration Saturday evening. The evening celebration was highlighted by worship and thanks to God, congratulations from guests,…
Editorial Comment
…aid, “Most people don’t need a Call; they need a kick in the pants.” Don’t let us let this be true of us! Some of our readers are still concerned about the fact that millions of Christians today (and even 500 years before Muhammed was born) have always used the…
Letters
…aid it very well: the word “God” in English has pagan origins in the Germanic cultures, while the word “Dieu” (French) or “Dios” (Spanish) come from the polytheistic Roman culture. As I said, Paul endeavored to widen the meaning of the Greek “theos” for his Athenian listeners (Acts 17), starting…
Profile: the Tuareg (Taureq or Tamajeq) of Africa
…ates of their numbers vary considerably, but the following are probably fairly accurate: Mali 800,000; Burkina Faso 100,000; Niger 600,000. North Africa has between 25,000 and 76,000 in Algeria and 17,000 in Libya. Those that are still nomadic keep herds of camels, cattle, sheep and goats in over a million…
Church on the Back of a Camel?
…aiding party threatened, they readily abandoned whatever crops they had to save their cattle, sheep or goats. They were usually very colorful and resourceful people, periodically fighting with the neighboring tribes over the diminishing amount of grass and water available to them as farmers and government projects invaded their essential…
Editorial Comment
…auditoriums and services all day Saturday and Sunday they really do pack them all in. But the reality is that behind this weekend extravaganza are 52,000 neighborhood accountability groups! And that is where the rubber meets the road. Again, the majority of Bible believers in China are within the huge…
Singapore ‘02
…ater others. Recognizing the need to rally energy to bring the idea to reality, discussions were begun for the meeting to be held in Singapore. Tim Lewis (Frontiers), Chong Kim (Korean American Center for World Mission) and I comprise the administrative committee. Ethos The focus of the meeting will be…
Which peoples need priority attention?
…additional ministries, their target priority is T=3. There are even largely Christian people groups (T=8 or more) who need discipleship. However, this analysis highlights that ministry amongst those peoples, as needed as it may be, is on a different level of need—people in Target 2-10 groups will hear the gospel,…
Are God and Allah the Same?
…ated all there is), we are talking about three faiths (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) that have this doctrine in common. As one reads the Qur’an (much of it reads like the Psalms or other parts of Scripture), one discovers the all-powerful God, the originator of all that is, the sustainer…