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Honor and Shame
…aid, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” — Genesis 30:20 “The Lord has done this for me,” she said. “In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace…
Letters
…aid that in order to win the weak he became weak (1 Cor. 9:22). As the strength of the rich antagonizes many who feel weak in poorer nations, western missionaries would need to take on the attitude of weakness if they are to minister effectively among the weak. Ajith Fernando…
Letters
…aid, “Satan’s greatest achievement is to cover his tracks.” His greatest tool is afflicting people with sorrow. “Lord, give us wisdom and teach us how to rebuke the devourer. Fill us with joy. Thank you for your promises and for your unfailing love.” Ollie Fallon Lancaster, CA For our sake…
Going South of the Border for a Short-Term?
…aid in decision-making about investments of time and resources in outreach. Hopefully, it will also be a tool to better judge the broader consequences of cross-cultural work. The following example may demonstrate how assumptions have strongly influenced our decisions and evangelistic work, especially in Mexico where short-term North American evangelism…
Devastation In Turkey
…aid, 'Provide for a thousand families, five thousand people. Provide tents or dwellings, sanitation, food, security, medicine, treatment, the lot.' And what he was really doing was challenging the churches: 'Can you do that? You're talking, helping, working--but can you?'" Calver says. In the midst of the wreckage, Calver sees…
Can Hindutva Survive the Persecution of Christians in India?
…aid that Muslims and Christians cannot love India or be true patriots, because India is not their holy-land. Now, suddenly they are confronted with a greatly embarrassing situation: They were given an opportunity to rule India, and within one year they've made a mess of it. The average voter has…
News
…aid, 'If this is true then our worship is just partial, it's not complete without the rest of the nations.'" "She caught it," he says. "The value of that radical vision in a few surpasses ten thousand who are glibly in agreement." For Hawthorne, the Perspectives course has already born…
Should We Stop Sending Missionaries?
…aid to build churches and support pastors. One thing inevitably occurs when North Americans subsidize the work of churches and pastors on the mission field: potential growth is stalled because of a mind-set that it can't be done unless an overseas benefactor provides the funds. ... Jealousy often develops among…
Horizon Four: Avoiding Dependency Mobilizing Local Resources
…aid that not one half penny had come from overseas in support of it all. One of the most important issues in church-mission relations today is the challenge of finding enough resources to carry out the remaining task of reaching the unreached. Unfortunately, many mission-established churches and other institutions are…
Letters To the Editor
…Aid’s criticisms are deceptive, you might consider giving a few examples, instead of engaging in mud-slinging. I am not connected to CA, but as a missionary on the field for 10 years, I have found their opinions to be mostly on-target.” Andrew Peat TAIWAN Editor: Two points: 1) As a…
We Changed Our Attitude About Missionaries
…aid or mine.” Although disheartened, Carey was not defeated. He developed his more complete “Enquiry” into the matter and in October of 1792 preached his challenging sermon from Isaiah 54. Shortly after the sermon in which Carey called the church to “Expect great things from God, attempt great things for…
A Field Worker Speaks Out
…aid, “There are two kinds of success: initial and ultimate.” Sometimes the former can jeopardize the latter. Despite some initial success, there is a need for a thoughtful and thorough re-evaluation of high-energy, high-visibility, multi-gigabyte programs like Joshua Project 2000 and Adopt A People in the light of the ultimate…
Helping Grass-roots Leaders to Build and Manage an Effective Ministry
…aid. It was hot and dusty. The fan droned in the background, but seemed to stir the air very little. The mosquitoes had abated for the moment, but would not be gone for long. All of these distractions, however, faded into the background as this man's words echoed in my…
Seamen’s Mission:
…attitude of being an ambassador of Christ, without coersion or arrogance. Missiologist Daniel Bloomquist observes, ”Our seaports are ‘gateways’ through which fellow-humans from all over the world come to us by centripetal movement, after which they are ”spun back” to all parts of the world again by centrifugal movement. What…
Beyond “Native Missionaries”
…Aid Mission have learned how very difficult it is to be truly helpful if all you send overseas is money. Both organizations specialize in finding worthy people and projects to fund. The Christian Aid Mission people, however, are very enthusiastic about “native missionaries.” They have recently placed full page ads…
News
…aid status. The school currently charges 1200 pounds a year for studies. Best known for his top ten rendition of "Morning Has Broken" (a hymn sung by many Christians), Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam gave up the rock music world nine years ago to become a Muslim. Ironically, the…
Rapid Response in Seasons of Receptivity
…aid flowed quickly from every corner of the earth, and rebuilding lasted for years. Questions linger as to how prepared Christ’s Church was to capture that season for more than the crisis-relief phase. Since then, Lebanon has experienced a devastating explosion, Myanmar has seen ethnic cleansing, and the COVID-19 pandemic…
Movements Responding to Crises
…aid, and Indians around Manipur are visiting fellow believers after painful persecution. Nigerians are hosting in their homes fellow believers who have fled terrorism. Ethiopian and Somali believers are bringing food to one another during the famine. Burmese and Thai believers are finding creative ways to get aid to the…
Seven Core Values That Guide GEN
…aid to myself: “That’s what I want to do!” I had already accepted God’s invitation to join Him in global mission, but I had no idea specifically what my role was until I read those two articles. Who knew that both writers would become my dear friends and supporters? When…
The Mobilization Index: A Strategic Mobilization Tool
…aid mission agencies and ministries globally to be the most strategic and effective in the placing of their personnel. We developed “deeper dives” country profiles, much like Operation World, to highlight the strategic opportunities each of these countries have to send missionaries to the unreached. Go to ViaMobilizationIndex.org to see…