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Sending Down Deep Roots
…aid workers in Iraq who, it turned out, were from the International Mission Board (Southern Baptist Convention). Apparently the specific targets of radical terrorists, they were seeking locations for water purification when their car was attacked. Four died at the scene, one died later, and another survived. The articles I’ve…
Orality: The Next Wave of Mission Advance
…aid in retention and re-telling. Ten steps have been identified as critical to storying’s effectiveness. (See the related article on this page.) Chronological Bible Storying (CBS) is based on ancient storytelling principles. In modern times, New Tribes Mission and the International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention workers collaborated to help…
A Missionary Speaks Out on Science/Faith Conflicts
…attack the credibility of not only geology, but paleontology, physics, and astronomy. They are deceptive and use quotations out of context to support their own biases. They are to be feared, for they number some 30 million in the U.S. and are politically active. If they succeed in establishing their…
Editorial Comment
…aid about disease, but what He would have said had those people back then known what we know about disease. Should missions go on spending millions of scarce mission dollars on raising children up to the age where they can die of malaria (four die every sixty seconds) if they…
An Open Letter
…aid and development agencies, mission support and resource providers, Bible and other theological schools that help train missionaries as well as dedicated missionary training institutions, mobilizers, home mission agencies, research groups, communications bodies, funding agencies, member care groups, professors of missions, business associates with missional purpose, and other individuals. We…
Kids Korner
…aids for children of all ages, are 28 inches tall and include two arm rods each. They are featured in 144 puppet scripts found in DiscipleLand Preschool lessons. Call for prices and shipping. Order from “DiscipleLand” at [email protected]. A great new 13-week curriculum will be released this fall: My Jungle…
An Initial Response to TIME
…attitudes” among evangelical missionaries. We, too, have deplored religious arrogance, political ignorance, the amateurish floundering of some well-meaning churches and short-term workers, and the kind of superficial “tentmaking” cited in the TIME article. By contrast, we applaud the sensitive application of “contextualization” by missionaries who represent Jesus with integrity and…
Why am I a Missionary to Muslims?
…aid. Secondly, it assumes that I think such “conversions” would have any real mean-ing—as though I’m playing for points in heaven. Finally, such a ridiculous scenario insults the Intelligence of Muslims. Inducements would not lead to genuine spiritual change, and everyone involved would know it. This is a ruse thrown…
One Perspective from India
…aid, both material as well as spiritual, with the latter, of course, being tied to the former. He comments on his own perspective: Personally, I have no problem at all with anyone wishing to change her or his faith, or even to anyone eager to convince others of the claims…
Future Challenges in Progress and Partnership
…AIDS and to live and exercise a Christian faith that is culturally relevant and holistic. Second, “The Younger Leaders Forum” by Jeffrey De Leon and Lucas Leys. As many statistics show, the largest percentage of the global population is found below the age of 30 and in the evangelical world…
The Case for a Global Inter-Missions Network
…AIDS, TB, malaria). Church-mission relationships. Coping with Christian tourism, short term ministries, direct sending churches, etc. While we praise God for all the value given through international discussions involving missions concerns (such as definition of unreached peoples, contextualization, the gospel and social concern, missiological issues, etc.), the practical issues that…
Still Two Structures
…aid in effect, “We know why the Protestants are heretics: because they have no missions.” The problem preventing some Protestant denominations from “making disciples among all the ethne” is not theological but structural. If the governing powers (“grow the church where it is”) do not permit and monitor the pioneer…
Debt and Training
…aid issues, the expectation of schools like this is that they would borrow on the value of their home and go into debt to pay for their daughter’s education. Do we consider what would that do to delay her plans to be a missionary or her parents’ ability to continue…
Equipped, or Drilled?
…additional factors related to functional implementation of the goals of the training.
Is this Really a Breakthrough?
…aid and done? Q. In answering the question of what needs to be done differently to reach every people, the Table 71 participants point to a “clearly de.ned” four-step process and propose to entirely do away with the terms “unreached” and “adopted”? Do you agree? Why or why not? Q.Table…
Member Care at the Frontiers
…aid to me, “Our message of a transforming relationship with Isa (Jesus), of salvation by grace, was most believable and had the greatest fruit when our message of God’s love was lived out in their presence.” Others have told me that locals who observed successful resolution of conflict between missionary…
Kids Korner
…AIDS orphans, and thousands in Muslim nations are being indoctrinated to commit acts of terror. Girls are trapped in the sex industry of Asia, while boys are trained to be Buddhist monks or boy soldiers. By contrast, we have the immense privilege and obligation to disciple our children to be…
Editorial
…aids” of information six months before or after kids hit something at school. Nothing can take the place of adding fact and insight the same week the issue surfaces in their classroom. Thirty Hours vs. Thirty Minutes If this catches on, churches can put up signs, “Drop your children off…
Christ-Followers in India Flourishing— But Outside the Church
…attitude which hinder the free flow of the Gospel into the community. They want to be servants of the Kingdom, rather than servants of the church” (xiii). Nonetheless, one must question whether Hoefer in the end is either too traditionally attached to the church or just not careful enough to…
Ready Set… Go Team!
…aid the mission work of the church five years ago consisted of a committee of six volunteers meeting in a home, deciding where to send the “missions piece” of the budget pie. So what caused the dramatic change? The same thing that has turned other churches upside down in mission…