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From Vision to Reality God Blesses One Agency’s Focus on Reaching Unreached Peoples
…It's exciting to see one more mission practicing what we preach -- reaching the unreached peoples. Pioneers does that exclusively. This relatively young mission has grown rapidly since we first profiled them in our April/May 1991 issue. At that time they had 235 members. Just five years later they have…
Global News Update
…Iran Three Evangelical Church Leaders Assassinated Within Six Months The Rev. Tateos Michaelian, age 62 and pastor of St. John's Armenian Evangelical Church in Iran, was found shot to death sometime between June 29 and July 2, 1994 in Tehran. He had recently been appointed Chairman of the Council of…
Editorial Comment
…Money and missions is the theme of most of our material this time, but a few minutes ago, when I took out the trash, I noticed that my right front tire was almost flat. I had to go to the garage and get out my seldom used, battery-operated tire pump.…
Am I A Real Missionary?
…"And now will all the missionaries here for the missions conference please stand up?" This is a familiar question at the missions conferences my husband and I have attended. Seated throughout the audience, or grouped on the front row or even on the podium, we special ones are asked to…
Adoption/Partnership Makes a Difference
…Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, "ADOPTS" Nigeria's Atyap People There is a new excitement rippling through the congregation as a result of the church's participation in the Adopt-A-People program according to Dr. Stephen J. Cornils, senior pastor of Central Lutheran Church (CLC) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Indeed, God is planting seeds of…
Part II Crucial Issues in Missions Working Toward the Year 2000
…The October issue of MF presented Part I of this analysis of the critical issues in the church's mission in the 90s. The first 8 points ended with a definition of a "unimax" people as "the maximum- sized group still sufficiently unified to allow the spread of a church movement…
Indianapolis 1990:
…Staff member Phil Bogosian attended this massive meeting and here shares his personal observations. He felt led to elaborate a detailed admonition as well, which we felt worthy to append. Not everyone would refer to it as a "prophecy." --RDW "Evangelize the world, Now!" was the stirring watchword of an…
All Eyes Fixed on Thomas Wang!
…It was a tense, unplanned moment. All eyes were fixed on Thomas Wang as he made his way toward the podium. The IFMA executive committee requested that he make clear the position of the AD2000 Movement (to which he gives leadership) in relation to Roman Catholics. The request followed the…
Seeing the Big Picture
…Introduction 1. Often when we speak of evangelizing the world, using popular phrases like “winning the world to Christ,” we do not think in detailed technical terms, nor consider the fundamental elements of exactly what it is we are doing. So let’s look at the nature of our mission, first…
Seamen’s Mission:
…“There’s no question—Jesus has a better deal,” realized one Chinese seaman when given the chance to make a valid comparison between Buddha and Christ. He requested baptism at the local seafarers’ center, where the chaplain also gave him a New Testament and several Bible study booklets. By the time his…
Sending the Pastor Away
…“The basics of New Testament Christianity” is an ideal to which many believers feel today’s Church should return. The early church’s evangelistic fervor, powerful prayer life, and orientation toward community are traits the church would be fortunate to recapture. But how often does today’s church venture to rival the radical…
Rugged Reality
…A chap flunked out of college and was too scared to go home and face his father. Instead he sent a telegram to his father's best friend which read, "Flunked out. Be home tomorrow. Prepare Dad." Back came the answer, "Dad prepared. Prepare yourself!" Yes, we must face reality if…
High Tech Research for Missions
…The Global Mapping Project is possibly the most crucial of all the agencies at the U.S. Center for World Mission, yet it may also be the least understood. Project staff members and volunteers are helping to bring the very latest computer technology to bear on mission research. If it is…
What About the Kids?
…"One of the most burning questions in the hearts and minds of virtually every couple who has ever considered missionary service is what they will do in the way of educating their children," said Elsie Purnell, a staff counselor with the US. Center for World Mission and OMF missionary who…
God’s Special Envoys
…Commencement Address, William Carey International University. Distinguished faculty, parents, ladies and gentlemen, members of the graduating class of 1985. God needs special envoys such as yourselves as workers in His vineyard. Jesus said to the disciples. "Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest'?…
Mission 2000
…A. Underlying Convictions We believe that those who are blessed by God are automatically obligated to be a blessing to all the peoples of the world. Gen. 12:1 3. We believe that 'to be a blessing means to spread the news of the saving pcwc and sanctifying Lordship of Jesus…
Mission 2000
…A. Underlying Convictions We believe that those who are blessed by God are automatically obligated to be a blessing to all the peoples of the world. Gen. 12:1 3. We believe that "to be a blessing means to spread the news of the saving power and sanctifying Lordship of Jesus…
New Hope from Old Missions
…USCWM General Director Ralph Winter examines a new thrust in frontier missionary outreach coming from yesterday's mission fields. The transition from mission field to mission base holds great hope for the penetration of the final frontiers of the gospel. In this issue, Mission Frontiers introduces its readers to a littleknown…
News
…Popular Christian Singer Shares Frontier Vision Before his Death in Airplane Accident in Texas Keith Green, the popular contemporary Christian songwriter and singer who was recently killed in the crash of a light plane near his home in Lindale, Texas, had become a special friend of the U.S. Center and…
Develop and Implement a Contextual Prayer Strategy
…Why develop a prayer strategy? While my family served in Asia, my husband and I visited a team on an island a short flight away. They had experienced many setbacks to sharing Jesus with those around them. Their children often had nightmares, as did those who slept in the guest…