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Editorial Comment
…We used to concern ourselves with listing all the “Unreached Peoples” in the world. The cover story this time is “What does it take to ‘engage’ a people group?” Why ask that? Good news! So many agencies have turned their attention to Unreached Peoples that now the Southern Baptists (as…
Editorial Comment
…In this issue you will find a brief but truly masterful summary of the mysterious strategy of promoting cross-cultural faith movements, that is, movements that may or may not look like church-planting movements. Yes, we are accepting the durable possibility of genuine personal faith despite a wide diversity of social…
What DNA Are We (Really) Reproducing?
…For the past 25 years I have ministered within church and mission in North America. I have served as a staff person of a church, as an elder, and (with my wife) as part of church-planting teams. Most everything we have attempted for many years has been connected to recruiting,…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Reader, In our last issue (on the “Uncertain Future of Missions”) I wrote about my recent return visit to Guatemala, where my growing family and I worked between 1956 and 1966. I wrote of how Christian families have been shattered by the massive, forced migration of fathers and older…
Compass, Telescope and Tour Guide
…God has allowed us to have an enormous amount of contact with students over the past seven years. After 150,000 students and 1100 campus meetings I feel like we’re finally learning some things about mobilization. Students are changing quickly and so are the influences on them, such as media, parents,…
Ethnê ’06 Coordinates, Accelerates Efforts Toward “Least-Reached” Peoples
…Here’s a quick test: How many Christians does it take to send one missionary? It depends: the United States, sends one missionary per 2,000 Christians. Mongolia, sends one missionary for every 220 believers! What country has over 5,200 missionaries serving in 56 countries, is planning to bring the Gospel through…
Who’s Unreached in Asia?
…This article by Steve Spaulding has been reprinted, by permission, from the November-December 2005 issue of Momentum magazine , a new online publication edited by Justin Long and intended to Òhelp believers passionately, quickly, and effectively obey the Great Commission and reach the Unreached Peoples of our world. Momentum seeks…
Learning From a New Wave of Social Entrepreneurs
…What can the mission movement learn from today’s social entrepreneurs? How did Indian street children gain a voice in their community? Or African families confidently solve their own problems? And how must we be changed through reflection on the experiences and insights of “entrepreneurs in action,” thinking harder and more…
When “Christian” Does Not Translate
…I grew up as a Muslim, and when I gave my life to Jesus I became a Christian. Then I felt the Lord saying, ‘Go back to your family and tell them what the Lord has done for you.’” Such was the beginning of the testimony of a sweet sister…
Who Cares About the Millennium Development Goals?
…Who cares about the Millennium Development Goals? Enthusiasts for frontier mission should – as an expression of our compassion for suffering peoples and our desire to see God honored in earth’s most neglected corners. But chances are that you haven’t even heard of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). If so,…
Why We Buy Things We Don’t Need
…Ever read a book that made you mad? I was intrigued by the title of Pamela N. Danziger’s Why People Buy Things They Don’t Need. But after browsing through pages 1-96, I found myself grousing. Why? Because Danziger knows precisely what she’s talking about, and her job is to sell…
Historical Precedents and Foundations for the GNMS
…The future, of course, is built upon the past. That is why this effort to found the GNMS is deliberately the result of a “Third Call.” That is, we are consciously attempting to put in place the kind of structure which existed before, which blinked out about a third of…
Walking In Their Shoes
…Over the last year I’ve done a couple of things differently and a couple of different things. I’m not talking about once-a-year or once-a-lifetime things, but new things that then become regular patterns. My example is in exercise. For years I swam regularly, and after awhile I didn’t think about…
Church-Based Missionaries
…This is one of the most delicate issues today, and no doubt will continue to be into the near future. Some church traditions have emphasized the sole validity of the local church structure so strongly that any kind of denominational or mission agency type of collaboration is seen as extra-biblical.…
Is There a Better Way?
…One of the characteristics of a Purpose-Driven church is evaluating by purpose: “Is there a better way to fulfi ll each purpose?” That is my approach and the primary question raised here: Is there a better way to fulfill the purpose of the proposed Peace Plan? I write from the…
A Case Study in Partnership
…1. The Church’s Perspective Dennis McCallum, teaching elder and one of the founders of Xenos Christian Fellowship Xenos Christian Fellowship is a fairly large, young, independent church in Columbus, Ohio. In the 1980s we had grown very rapidly, which forced us to focus on equipping new leaders for our home…
Churches Sending Teams
…A few local churches are starting to send their own teams of missionaries, and more will send teams in the future. This could be a great blessing. Yet two unfortunate consequences are emerging from many of these efforts – one foreseen by the late Dr. Donald McGavran, the other by…
Desert Rose
…When God planted His gardens around the world, He chose thorn trees and rocks for the Darfur region of Sudan and neighboring Chad. Painted in various shades of yellows and browns, the landscape of this sun-baked region just below the Sahara has its own kind of harsh beauty. The peoples…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Reader, The Asian tsunami—which no one could have stopped—is radically different from the Darfur genocide happening right now in a bleak corner of Sudan—which could be stopped. Darfur is far worse than the turmoil and tragedy in either Indonesia or Iraq, for Darfur is the scene of “two million…
Priority Peoples: a Customized Approach
…Editor’s note: in this Mission Frontiers we present the second part of a cover theme introduced in our previous issue – “Which peoples need priority attention?” In that issue we invited Dan Scribner (of Joshua Project) to share his perspective, and in this issue we have invited Todd Johnson and…