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2520 Entries found for Keyword(s) "aids"
Uzbekistan: One Christian’s Dream
…aided by the strong tradition of hospitality within the Uzbek culture. Paul knows that Jesus is the hope of Uzbekistan, but the Uzbekis don't know it yet. He met his first Uzbek Christian just a few weeks ago. She said, "God is at work among the few Christians here in…
Why Ask Missionaries to Beg?
…addressed. In my 28 years of active Christian service, I have never met a missionary who relishes the responsibility and hassle of this financial aspect of missionary work. We end up feeling we are a strange breed of sanctified beggars, not unlike the Buddhist monks I have observed making the…
Presbyterian Agency Votes $1,000,000 for Frontier Mission Outreach
…ate the drama of these recent changes, and why a re-emphasis on unreached peoples is so revolutionary, a brief history of Presbyterian international mission practice is necessary. Beginning about 1958, Presbyterians recognized that the church had been well-established in the mission fields to which they had previously gone. They resolved…
Christopher Columbus
…aid about his hunger for wealth being the motivation for his voyage. But the deep passion that drove Columbus forward through years of ridicule and rejection is not easily explained by such a simple answer. Much of the evidence of his true motivation has been ignored by people who cannot…
13,000 Meet in Lagos Nigeria for AD2000
…aid the chief variable was whether they accepted the Bible as God's word. After discussion with my Fuller colleagues I concluded that Kumuyi's Deeper Life Bible Church was likely one of the more orthodox ones. I first met William Kumuyi at the 1989 Lausanne II meeting in Manila. It was…
An Announcement You Can Act On!
…ate school. With such an expansion in place, we can expect graduates of this program to help supervise or teach Perspective classes. They are also the best ones to help us recruit B.A.-level "6/6" students, who, as part of their educational program, will work six months a year overseas. Some…
Building the Missing Bridge
…aid was that in his world travels he has gained the strong impression that the number of missionaries (both Western and non-Western) is more rapidly increasing than are the graduate facilities offering missiological courses. Is it a tragedy that most of today's new missionaries are not getting formal missiological training?…
Letters to the Editor
…additional 1600 mission leaders. They reveal the impact MF is having. Philippines - "Thank you very much for sending us the latest issue of Mission Frontiers. It is informative and encouraging. I wish that my co-workers in the field will have a copy of it also." Pastor Joy S. Gabasa,…
Facing the Final Frontiers
…aiding and abetting the efforts of existing missions in many technical frontiers, but not necessarily mission frontiers. The other element in the EFMA is, of course, the strong presence of the mission boards of a number of evangelical denominations. Many of these, as I have said, were in fact distinctly…
Mission Executives Section
…address and complete the "Unfinished Task" by stressing the frontier fields remaining.) In 1974, with the same professor leading the discussion, a "Call" was hammered our and Arthur Glasser, Dean of the School of World Mission at Fuller Seminary provided thousands of little red buttons people could wear on their…
Communicating Christ to the Hindu World
…ate the Gospel to Hindus? I would like to focus on three factors that may help find answers to my questions. Consider the Context: In order to understand the context of our communication, we must have a proper perspective of the Hindu religion. The problem we encounter in seeking to…
Editorial Comment
…aid on our shoulders here at the USCWM. In that case we would end up with a final number of only 1 to 4 because in the world today for every Evangelical believer there are only four people who live locked away in Unreached People groups! Mission Executives! Don't miss…
The Unfinished Task—In Persons!
…aid that heaven rejoices over one person converted: that means these groups are the remaining unreached peoples--that is, they are the Most That Heaven Can Boast Over. (Note those enlarged capital letters? They stand for Muslims, Tribals, Hindus, Chinese, Buddhists, and Other!) Also, tell people that these thousands of groups…
An Announcement, and Request for Prayer!
…ate now on the development of a completely off-campus M.A. in basic seminary knowledge and missiological orientation. With such an expansion in place we can then go up or down. We can expect graduates of this program to help us with Perspective courses, even teaching in them. They will be…
Editorial Comment
…auditorium seating 12,500, capable of dealing with 27 languages, and lodging facilities for 7,000. Nothing of this magnitude bringing pastors together has ever occurred in human history--all funded by Africans. This was the kick- off meeting of the AD2000 Movement in Africa. Luis Bush, International Director of that movement gave…
Partnership within God’s Purposes!
…ated to them. The WEF has a global meeting every 6 years called the General Assembly. This just ended in Manila Philippines. WEF also has a number of specialized commissions that seek to assist the worldwide body of Christ on global issues that effect the whole church. These commissions meet…
Are We Losing the Battle?
…aid, "We are losing the battle of Christians in media," that would be one thing. If he means we are losing the battle of the Great Commission, that is something quite different. At one point in his narrative it would seem that the battle is to make everyone a Christian--which…
Tales of the Guilty-Rich American Missionary
…ates: How and why our 'stuff' gets in the way of our witness." In our comments in that issue we referred to the article found on the previous four pages, as well as promised to comment further this time. Roger Greenway, first a missionary, then a mission executive, and now…
Adopt-A-People: The Global Strategy to reach all of the Unreached Peoples
…aid to the 5900 that would still remain hidden. Our proposal is that the AAP Clearinghouse assign a people to all the churches, in the following manner: We have divided the U.S. into 6000 zipcode clusters each with about 50 churches and each with one assigned people group. We know…
Unprecedented Follow-through Program for the “Nations for Christ” Congress in the Former Soviet Unio
…aid. "We'll help them build a house. We'll help feed them." And everyone laughed when he added, "We have plenty of fish." At the high point in the final meeting, this man was joined in front by fourteen other Russian cross-cultural missionaries who are already at work among tribal groups…