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Blessing Women in Missions
…aid in I Corinthians 9:23 "I do all this for the sake of the Gospel that I may share His blessings." If I could paraphrase: focus your women on the tasks and they will be blessed. One way I believe we can focus on the task is by studying our…
Strength in the Face of Adversity
…aid down the rules of the house. What they said, they meant, and what they said, they meant the first time. These were all factors that gave us self-discipline." One of the fundamental flaws that Elliot recognized in North America upon returning to the States was the carefree practice of…
Horizon Six: Using Biculturals
…aid, "This is not breaking out of the Jewish world fast enough. Who shall we choose to take this message further?" Paul and Barnabas are classic Biblical examples of God's judicious use of bicultural people. When the apostles in Jerusalem sent Barnabas to shepherd the Gentile explosion of faith in…
Horizon Three: Re-thinking Mission Education The Breakthrough for On-Field Mission Training
…ateurization versus professionalization debate--the two long-standing extremes in the training dimension of missionaries--is being substantially diminished as distance education reshapes the educational landscape of North America. Historically marginalized because of its perceived illegitimacy, distance education is now becoming mainstream as more and more colleges and universities vie for their "newest"…
Horizon Two: A Pre-Candidate Network Global Links with Local Touch
…aid to me, "I really felt God was speaking to me then, telling me to go as a missionary. I guess that just didn't work out." Every few weeks, thousands of people like my friend contact mission agencies to find out what is the next step for them. While, for…
Horizon One: Grass Roots Mobilization Fueling the Passion in the Pew
…added element of sophistication necessary to do bi-cultural missions outreach (see Downs, page 30). But the potential benefits may well justify wading into these less-charted waters. The LCMS World Mission has fostered the initiative of the local congregation, yet it hasn't left them unattended. It has decentralized, but has not…
Kids Korner
…address below for these. Window to Indonesia is the new book by Bev Gundersen. It is a fascinating wealth of information, using activities, stories, songs, Bible verses, and much more. Included also is a special section for preschool and kindergarten students. The activity pages are reproducible for your class. Graded…
How the Film “JESUS” has become the Most Translated Film in History
…aid to matching the tone and inflection with the situation on the screen, even to the facial expressions of the characters. Often a number of "takes" are required as they carefully record each line in the new language. The final recording is then reviewed and stored on a computer in…
MF Behind the Scenes
…address whereby people can get more information on his ministry to indigenous peoples called ITEC. His ministry is working to apply appropriate technologies to unreached peoples that need these tools to survive and reach their own with the Gospel. Since the publication of that issue, the web address has changed.…
AD2000 Movement Leaders Declare:
…aid, "America has lots of money, but where is the vision for the lost?" Nevertheless several attendees told stories of the hardships new brethren in the 10/40 window are willing to endure in order to spread the gospel, others spoke of special abilities of those often overlooked. "God is raising…
Harnessing Today’s Movement for Tomorrow’s Missionaries?
…additional students, mostly adults, into higher education and ignited a building frenzy. These students, like my father, moved to campus locations and centered their lives around the schools' schedules. Today, we're on the verge of launching millions more, again mostly adults, into higher education, but this time it's igniting a…
News from the JESUS Film Project
…ately 500 million people report that from 1994-1997 a variety of approaches, including personal contact and different uses of the JESUS film, often linked with gifts of the New Testament, allowed an estimated 156 million people to learn about Jesus of Nazareth and what He came to do for them.…
Sleepless in Seattle
…ately handled. Yet we are compelled to keep trying! And trying we are! The North American Frontier Mission "industry" took a huge step forward on April 3-4, 1998. Sleepless In Seattle On the evening of April 3rd, 1998 in Seattle, WA, mobilizers met together to discuss roadblocks that have hindered…
Kids Korner
…ately 500 people attended plenary sessions, chose from nearly 50 workshops, and visited publisher and mission agency displays. One of the primary issues is, why all the fuss? Let me suggest four reasons we make children's missions education a priority. First, it's a challenge! Children are both harder and easier…
MF Behind the Scenes
…ately, many of the mistakes made in the past are being repeated over and over again because the missionaries from various countries have not been good enough students of missiology. We also tend toward what is easiest and quickest to do, such as inadvertently planting our own culture along with…
Asia Mission Congress II
…address by Paul McKaughan of the EFMA, a call was given to begin moving beyond the ethno-linguistic approach to the unfinished task so that those language groups representing many ethnic groups will not be perceived as one large group. Representatives from Korea revealed that there are now over 6,000 Korean…
Prayer Is the Key to OMF/REAP Adopt-A-People
…aid Dougherty. In 1993, OMF launched REAP as a mobilization tool to plant churches among the most-difficult-to-reach peoples in East Asia. Key to their success has been prayer and encouraging churches to adopt one or more of the 100 targeted groups. By narrowing their focus, OMF has been better able…
News from the JESUS Film Project
…aid, connecting the 18 video projectors to the production truck. The sound was then forwarded to a local radio station and beamed back to the field. Viewers could hear clearly through both the sound systems and the thousands of radios spread through the crowd. “The response of the crowd was…
Mission Training File
…ates and Christians all over the world. Northwestern offers this curriculum as a degree completion program leading to a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Intercultural Ministries. The program is unique in several ways: 1: Designed so that it can be taken anywhere a student chooses. There is no need to…
Fighting Dependency Among the Aucas
…aid, “Help us get medicine.” I responded, “There is a hospital and you can go there to get medicine.” They said, “Yes, but how do we get there? And when our people get there, they can take care of the body, but nobody can explain to them God’s trail. But…