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40 Years of Unreached Peoples Effort
…adds, splits and merges have occurred over the years that significantly cloud the unreached to reached picture. For example, for many years there were two unreached Zhuang people groups speaking two different Zhuang languages in China on the Joshua Project list. When the 17th Edition of the Ethnologue came out,…
A Recipe For Dependency
…aid, theological education and foreign personnel. These Orthodox missionary initiatives intensified in the mid-1960s to 1970s, about the same time some African churches, like the PCEA in Kenya, were moving away from colonial missionary structures in adherence to the “moratorium on missionaries” agenda that was moving toward self-sustainability. Many Eastern…
Good Intentions Are Not Always Good Enough
…addiction to nicotine and alcohol has often had dramatic economic effects. High in the mountains in Guatemala, the town of Almalonga was widely known for its high income from vegetable production and its pervasive alcoholism. All of its relatively high income was squandered on liquor. When faith in Jesus Christ…
The Best Way to Plant Indigenous Churches Is to Begin that Way
…aid with foreign funding, and that should somehow trickle down to us. Why should we feel obligated to contribute? Allow me to underscore once again — these harmful attitudes are not the result of the recipients’ wrongdoing, but rather the impact of outsiders trying to underwrite that which should be…
Getting to No Place Left:
…aid above, “Donald McGavran pointed out in 1982 that the common Western approach to ‘planting a church’ inhibits movements rather than encourages them. It is not enough to plant a church and hope God will initiate a movement. To collaborate with the Holy Spirit in launching movements, we must pursue…
A U.S. Perspective on the No Place Left Coalition
…attacks are relentless and intense. To survive spiritual warfare, we are committed to pray for each other, support one another, encourage each other, and believe the best about one another. The enemy is always trying to twist the truth and divide us, and the Bible is clear that the Father…
Healthy DNA in Obeying Congregations
…aid, “This discussion has been very fruitful. Let’s summarize these verses.” Together the group listed these essential ingredients of healthy churches: worship, prayer, discussion of the Word, fellowship (applying the “one-another” commands), the Lord’s Supper, giving, baptism, evangelism leading to new churches, godly leadership, and regular meetings. Faisal asked Nasrudin…
Leadership: Women in African DDM
…aid, “I love you, because of Jesus.” The woman responded, “If you love me, come to my home for coffee.” On the appointed day, Yannet and a co-worker returned to the city and arrived at the new friend’s home, to find a group of 15 people gathered! Yannet quickly asked…
A New Era in Bible Translation
…aid, “Go and make disciples of all nations.” What is hindering the gospel’s progress in reaching all of the unreached people groups and languages? Is it a lack of money, lack of human resources, or a lack of technology? Or is it something else? One major reason is that, over…
Ownership—It’s What Makes Ministry Happen
…attic area of my house. The repair and recovery efforts are going to take a significant amount of my time over the next couple months so I have arranged for a guest editor to fill in for me for the next issue of MF. I anticipate that I will return…
Iraq
…aid. The “new church” of Iraq will be a house of prayer for all nations, a habitation and resting place for God.3 The Iraqi people, especially the Kurds, are very kind and willing to hear our message. However since ISIS’s invasion into Iraq we have begun to see an even…
Remaining Faithful in the Midst of the Growing Darkness
…aid it best (as usual): ‘Enemy-occupied territory–that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.’ There.... This is frightening, militant language, but…
How is ISIS Spreading the Gospel?
…attacks, his group, al-Qaeda, quickly morphed from killing westerners to killing Muslims. Their brutality has particularly been harsh in Iraq and Syria, as have been actions by the Taliban in Pakistan. And the latest is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self- proclaimed caliph of ISIS. His declaration of a new caliphate…
Would St. Francis Willingly Be Captured by ISIS?
…aid Francis, “we have a message that you should surrender your soul to God.” With this introduction, he proclaimed the Triune God and Jesus Christ the Savior of all. When the Sultan was advised to behead them, he said no, and invited them to stay on as guests. Francis said,…
…aid we should be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ or of the person of Jesus. Though some read 1 Peter 4:14-16 as instructing us to say “I am a Christian” others read it differently. These others see Peter instructing people to not be ashamed of identifying themselves with Christ.…
Catalyzing Kingdom Breakthrough
…aid to us, “That’s a little bit audacious…the center for world mission?” So, we changed it to the U.S. Center for World Mission, in light of the fact that we hoped to see other regional centers in other countries. We would associate with other “centers for world mission.” Then 1990…
T4T or DMM (DBS)? - Only God Can Start a Church-Planting Movement (Part 1 of 2)
…audacious that the initial catalytic team is forced to focus not on “what can we do” but “what must be done.” This shifts them from being church planters to being catalysts that empower reproducing churches to be started. Person God Uses: In each of these movements there seem to be a…
To Love the Glory of God
…attachment to either way of glory — the broken glory exchanged among humans, or the better glory coming from God — as relational realities of love. We either devote ourselves to one way of glory or the other. We can see innumerable cultural patterns and social structures by which people…
Women Engaged in Church-Planting Movements Among UPGs
…aid, “You [and the word means all of you, male and female] are my witnesses. You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world.” And there have been countless thousands who, without reference to where they came from or what they knew or who they…
Longing for the Golden City
…aid in natural disasters and ethnic conflict zones. After cyclone Nargis washed away 140,000 people in May 2008, the movement crossed cultural barriers and spread into the majority people group numbering 60 million Buddhists. Eight barriers to Buddhists receiving Christ[12] While many cross-cultural workers have developed various methods for sharing…