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“Bright Hope for Tomorrow”
…Burden? Privilege? Faith? It is our burden and privilege to be "condemned" to raising money for our campus only while also raising new vision and, if possible, much more money for the mission cause as a whole. Our faith, since December of 1977, has been to "raise money without diverting…
Producer: “Don’t Neglect Video!”
…C. Ray Carlson, president of the Center for International Communications, spoke at a regularly scheduled Missiology meeting at the U.S. Center for World Mission. "Any mission executive who has not considered the use of video within his mission's strategy for the '90s is behind the times," he said. "Many people…
The Father of Church Growth
…Over the past 50 years, few have influenced world evange[i:alion as much as Donald McGavran. At the age of 88, a small, bespectacled man with a barren scalp and impish eyes that no longer see to read, Donald McGavran still seems - there is no other word for it -…
Candidate Training and Mission Intern Programs
…Dear Missions Committee: Thanks for your good letter about Jim and Jan Smith. We agree that it is the role of the local church to attest to theft readiness before commissioning them. At the USCWM, we have been concerned that local churches rarely seek involvement in the preparation of their…
The US Center for World Mission
…The U.S. Center For World Mission is dedicated to the task of establishing a viable, witnessing church of national believers within each of the estimated 17,000 unreached peoples of the world. Much as the War Department servedd the United States in World War II, we serve the Spiritual War effort…
From the Director
…Dear People, I am sitting in the airport in Los Angeles wailing for a non stop flight to Amsterdam and then to Africa where in the next 20 days we will visit two of our four missionary daughters. 1 don't need to comment on all the exciting things in S…
An Ever Widening Circle The Impact of One Perspectives Class
…I bumped into Francis Patt the other day. Fran is the Center's East coast representative working out of Wilmington, Delaware. He and Jay Gary teamed up in 1980 sponsor the first ever extension class of the Perspectives course. It was held in the Spring of 1980 at Penn Stare University…
God Reigns in China
…Adapted and reprinted by pennission from GOD REIGNS IN CHINA by Leslie Lyall, published and copyright 1985. The Overseas Missionary Fellowship, London, England. The story of one unusual church, told by one of its members, spans the whole period from 1949 to the present day: This is a mining town,…
The Church in China
…Foreword This moving story is an epochal book, it marks the end of one age and the beginning ofanother. It tells ofa dramatic new power available for world evangelization. Until the past twenty years. the spread of the Christian faith was done primarily by the spoken word. As Christians have…
Never a Dull Moment!
…Saturday, May 11 After months of confusion, uncertainty and ambiguity. ., the 4B page Jan/Mar issue of MISSION FRONTIERS went to press. Our new arrangement with the former owners of these properties was clarified still higher interest (now $135,000 per month), balloon payments (total $0 million) postponed two years, until…
ACMC Spearheads Growing Missions Movement in North American Churches
…Over two bilion people alive today have never had a reasonable opportunity to become Christians. These people are non Christians, not because they've said "no" to the gospel, but because they haven't bad a chance to say "yes"! Without the efforts of today's and tomorrow's rnisionaries those who minister in…
World Need, World Problems
…Introduction We may be tired of hearing about monumental world need, spiritual or physical. The summary here is a reassessment. In Part lit acknowledges and even expands our awareness of the scope of the need, but it shows a way forward. In Part It it suggests that the most strategic…
Henrietta Watson
…Sitting in her office at the Institute of Hindu Studies in Pasadena. California, Henrietta Watson fondly touches the wristwatch she was given nearly 45 years ago when she graduated from the Missionary Medical Institute in Canada. The timepiece, like its owner, has been consistent throughout many years of service. It…
Ralph Winter
…When Ralph Winter was a student at Princeton Theological Seminary, someone pointed out that the chapel was 200 years old. "Oh, well," he replied. ''in California when a building is 20 years old we tear it down and build a better one," His remark went all over the seminary campus…
This is the U.S. Center for World Mission
…Before you get lost in the next few pages which picture he various subdivisions of the U.S. Center for World Mission what do you think the USCWM really is? A school? (It does include a university.) A think tank? A mission agency? A cooperative center? (It is all of the…
The U.S. Center for World Mission
…"Only rarely is one granted the opportunities to participate in the development of an idea that is likely to change the world in which we live." The U.S. Center for World Mission is such an idea. Those who participate in its development have the opportunity to affect the destiny of…
SIM’s Faith Goal: Double by ‘93
…This Is the goal SIM's General Council accepted this year. But where will the new members come front? SIM International (originally Sudan Interior Mission) set a faith goal last April to Increase active membership to two thousand by the mission's centennary. In terms of active missionaries (not including retirees) that…
Let’s Go Forward!
…"That you may abound In hope by the power or the Holy Spirit" Romans 15:11 In this issue, the bar chart on this page SETS THE TONE. There you see a wide variety of growth¬concerned mission societies, large and small. (The percentage, and length of bar, indicates the number of…
Seeing it God’s Way
…An Excerpt from The Great Omission How does one see the world from God's viewpoint? It would be difficult to find a better vantage point than this familiar summary of what the Bible is about. Standing at this overlook we can see what God is like, what God is up…
Let’s Go Forward!
…"That you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" Romans IS:?? We Are Not Giving Up I need to be determinedly honest. In my editorial (on page two) I have already hinted at the very curious mix of events this weak: foreclosure, a cover story in…