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Water + Gospel = Transformation
…When we were children, we drank from mud holes, and many of our brothers and sisters died from it,” said Kunguru. “Our children will never know this kind of suffering, praise the Lord.” I was sitting with a group of Maasai women near a recently installed water system, under the…
Water and Poverty
…Tearfund is an organization that was born in the 1960s out of The Evangelical Alliance in the UK. It is recognized for its professional expertise in development, disaster response, and advocacy, and follows the biblical mandate that helping communities in need is central to the purpose of local churches, wherever…
How to be a Savvy Investor in Water + Gospel
…When it comes to powerful impact, it’s hard to beat investing in water—it can dramatically improve quality of life, strengthen the local church, and help people experience the gospel. But not all giving opportunities in clean water are created equal, and where you give matters. More importantly, as a donor…
From the Editor
…A tall, rugged man stands at the bedside of his 11 year-old-son. The boy had been sick with a fever for days but now it is over. Lifting the bed-sheet and gazing down at his son’s now lifeless body, he chokes as he speaks through sobs of grief, “My poor…
…The following is the entire 1st chapter from from David Garrison's forthcoming book A Wind in the House of Islam and is posted with permission of WIGTake Resources. For more information about the book or for permission to use content from it please go to www.WindintheHouse.org. This is an expanded and updated version of…
God is Doing Something Historic
…This article is excepted from chapter one of Garrison's forthcoming book, A Wind in the House of Islam and is used by permission of WIGTake Resources. You may read the full and updated first chapter posted here on our blog. A wind is blowing through the House of Islam. The House of Islam,…
Start a Disciple-Making Movement Among Your Muslim Neighbors
…Both the Qur‘an and Islamic tradition erect barriers which inhibit Muslims from considering who Jesus is and what He has done for them. Muslims are often taught … to think about Mohammed rather than Jesus, to fear the corrupting influence of “Christian” culture, a misrepresentation of Christian doctrine, not to…
Church on the Porch
…There was no way Jeff could reach this people group alone. He began training local believers to make disciples and plant churches. Jeff learned to ask five questions: • How do I enter an unreached region and connect with people? • How do I share the gospel? • How do…
Demystifying Discipleship
…Jesus’ final commandment to His followers was to “Go and make disciples of all nations. . .teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” (Matt. 28:19-20) His mandate is just as urgent now as it was 2000 years ago. With almost one-third of the world’s population and thousands of…
Equipping the People of God for the Mission of God
…Seven years ago, I wrote an article for this magazine entitled “What DNA Are We (Really) Reproducing?” (Mission Frontiers, July 2006) In that article I questioned the ability of the American Evangelical Church to field adequately conceived and prepared missionaries without a major reorientation of the culture of the Evangelical…
Further Reflections
…Without the “fires burning” on the home front, things go cold on the frontlines. The first time I wrote about this in MF was in the 1990s. Over the years, I’ve written about the need for a “champion” who takes on the cause and keeps it in front of the…
An Interview with Dr. David Howard
…Background: I first met David Howard at the 1970 Urbana Student Missions Convention held in Champaign-Urbana, when he was serving as Assistant Director of the event and I was a senior in college. As alumni of the same college, we crossed paths numerous times over the next 40 years, most…
The Ethne Ephesus Vision
…Let’s start here: Ethne really isn’t like any other network or conference out there—at least, none I’m familiar with. I’ve been to a number of mission conferences. Some have been huge, and some have been very small. Some have been intensely scripted—so much so that if you just walked through…
Enter the Conversation from Urbana ‘12
…Empowering Every Tribe and Tongue to Worship Jesus A Conversation with the editors of the new book from William Carey Library, Worship and Mission for the Global Church, by Robin Harris, James Krabill and Brian Schrag (see page 41). They are all part of ICE, International Council of Ethnodoxologists. For more…
A Conversation With David Platt
…Editorial Note: The following is a trascript of an interview with David Platt and Mission Frontiers staff. You can watch the full video here. MF: Many publishers will not even consider publishing a “missions book” because they think missions books don’t sell. Then along comes Radical… what do you…
Further Reflections
…It was the fall of 1946. Ralph D. Winter was 22 years old, already a graduate of Cal Tech. About ten years before, he had become friends with Dan Fuller, son of popular radio preacher Charles E. Fuller. He had also spent a year at Westmont, after returning from Navy…
The Voices of Practitioners
…At the beginning of the new millennium Rick Love and other young leaders reflected on the Apostle John’s vision of the Lamb who with his blood “purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Rev. 5:9 NIV). And they convenanted to cooperate, by God’s grace,…
Editorial
…They are some of the most eloquent and profound words ever put to paper. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” These familiar words, taken…
Disciple-Making Movements Among Unreached Muslims
…I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. —1 Corinthians 3:6-7 (NKJV) One of Cityteam’s African leaders reminds us that the God who tells us that He could have called forth…
Engaged Unreached People Groups
…In recent years, a great deal of attention, energy and resources have been dedicated to engaging unengaged unreached people groups (UUPGs). Certainly, joining hands to engage the unengaged is a critical task in making disciples of all nations. Can you think of any reason why an entire people group should…