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Thoughts from the EFMA/IFMA, ISFM Meetings:
…USCWM Executive Director Greg Parsons recently returned from the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association/Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies and International Society for Frontier Missiology meetings in Denver, Colorado with the following thoughts. See page 18 for more reactions to these sessions.Is your church changing? Is it for the better or...? How…
Caleb Resources:
…"I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; Iâm just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then." - Joshua 14:11 So spoke Caleb as the nation of Israel was on the verge of taking the promised land. Forty-five years after…
We’re Running Out of Time
…The stragglers rush up the steps to Franson Hall just as the auditorium bursts into "To God Be The Glory." Visiting missionaries, students taking English As A Foreign Language, mission classes from nearby colleges, USCWM staff members and their kids, neighbors from down the block and mission committees from over…
Editorial Comment
…The world is stirring as never before. God apparently decided Americans needed an education on the Middle East, not just Eastern Europe. And, He wanted the U.N. Security Council to agree on something for a change. And, what do you know, India, after all these years of being nasty to…
The Missionary and the University
… The life and work of a missionary do not easily fit into the pattern required by U.S. institutions of higher education. Yet most of the universities around the world are there because of the global mission movement, and missionaries have made many notable contributions ranging from anthropology and linguistics, to…
Caught by the Vision!
…Over a dozen people, all of high caliber, attended our January 1990 Staff Orientation Week (S.O.W.). Though property is necessary for the U.S. Center for World Mission to function, people are our most important resource. Therefore, Staff Orientation Week is a very important event, held twice a year in Pasadena.…
“Expecting Great Things…”
…Let every kindred, every tribe on this terrestrial ball to Him all majesty ascribe and crown Him Lord of all! An exultant group began the ceremony by singing “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name” in an auditorium where just years ago cultists chanted to a giant Buddha. The happy…
Letters
…In reading my copy of Mission Frontiers (Aug/Sept.) which arrives rather late here in the UK, I came across your “Prophecy at Manila.” ...I have already passed photocopies round to various friends.... The wording coincides almost exactly with my own burden for some time now. May the Lord continue to…
A Mission Perspective on the American Euphoria over Eastern Europe
…It is all too easy for Evangelical believers to be caught up in the euphoria of other Americans gazing with uncritical eyes at what is happening in eastern Europe.But we need to ask some tough questions: “When has the mere achievement of democracy produced nice people?” Isn’t it the other…
Letters
…Serious MF Errata It is with alarm that I read “Impact and Action!” in the October MF which states, “Bob Klamser shocked the group by reporting that nearly 4,000 missionaries were kidnapped last year, up 2,000 from previous yearly averages.” This is completely inaccurate and is not at all what…
EFMA: Toward 2000
…Did you miss the EFMA Executive Retreat this year? Not to worry. MF staff writer Ron Shaw took notes for you! The following is an overview of the emphases of the conference. Also study through the two-part “Seeing the Big Picture” segments in this and the October MF’s Mission Executive…
AIMS Decade of Destiny
…“Where do I begin my involvement in missions?” “How can our church adopt an unreached people group?” Answers for these critical questions were offered at the third annual conference of the Association of International Mission Services (AIMS), held Oct. 17-20 near Pittsburgh. Under the banner of “The1990s--A Decade of Destiny,”…
Regional Centers Report
…Cooperating North American Centers Alberta Center Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (403/474-1712) Nick Van Zyderveld asks special prayer for the Perspectives program which is to start Jan. 9. For the location, please phone him. He also states that Jan. 2l-22 the Center will be participating in a “Missions Fest” at the Calgary…
At the Center
…Area Office in Mississippi Bruce Graham, Center Coordinator for regional offices, announced that Neil Browning, former Acting Director of the Institute for Japanese Studies and missionary in Japan for many years, has returned to his home near Jackson, Mississippi to open the Jackson Office of the USCWM. If you’re in…
ACMC & The Battle
…More than 800 delegates representing 350 churches and organizations met at Wheaton College, July 26-29, 1989, for ACMC ’89. Tokunboh Adeyemo of the Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar in Nairobi, Kenya; Stuart and Jill Briscoe of Elmbrook Church inWaukesha, Wisconsin; Josef Tson of the Romanian Missionary Society in…
The Meaning of A Meeting
…Two issues ago MF highlighted Countdown to 2000, the official compendium of the Global Consultation on World Evangelization By the Year 2000 and Beyond, a book edited by Thomas Wang (see Order Page). This month’s recommended reading is the book The Countdown Has Begun. Writers/editors Jay and Olgy Gary of…
Editorial Comment
…Dear friends, People think I am strange because I remember so many numbers. Yet I meet people who can quote baseball statistics until my head swims. (I notice that my wife never forgets the phone numbers of our children, even overseas.) I would like to believe that thousands of readers…
At the Center
…Phil Renick, mission director for the Association of Christian Schools International, recently visited the Center to emphasize the drastic need for mission education curricula in Christian schools. Renick’s association of 2700 Christian schools—including more than a hundred overseas schools for missionary children—has been awarded a substantial grant to develop the…
Editorial Comment
…Dear fellow believer in the completion of the task, Everyone knows our PURPOSE. Not everyone knows our unusual METHOD. Our purpose is to wave a flag for the unreached peoples. Our method is to work for and through other mission agencies. We have said for years that once our property…
We Pray, God Answers! Following Up on the Global Prayer Digest
…Recently a friend told me, "How exciting when an answer to prayer is known and shared!" In that spirit we give you this report of how God has responded to His church's use of the Global Prayer Digest, the monthly devotional produced at the U. S. Center for World Mission.…