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Saving Lives, Not Dollars
…Illinois, where I live and work, is one of three states that do not require motorcyclists to wear helmets. Every two years our legislators take up such a law, but routinely vote it down. Their simple logic seems to be that if people want to kill themselves, fine, let them…
Get Ready -The Arab World is About to Experience a Spiritual Breakthrough
…A question that world Christians should ask themselves is: "Is the statement that the Arab World is unreachable true?" After reading this article my hope is that you will say, along with an increasing number of Arab nationals and internationals who have worked there for years, a resounding "No." As…
World Evangelization:
…Never in the history of the church have there been so many special program and campaigns, literally around the entire world. The highest goals and aims in the history of the Church are being set by many different denominations and agencies. Many of these organizations are now tied together in…
Reconciliation:
…Jean Steffenson is the editor of The Reconciler, published by the Native American Chapter of the Reconciliation Coalition. She and her ministry are a part of the United Prayer Network of the AD2000 Movement. She gives a powerful testimony of the need for reconciliation in reaching Native Americans with the…
200 Unreached Peoples In Our Midst: A Legacy of Tears—A Future of Hope
…Do you know what comes to the Navajo reservation every summer?" The Navajo young woman asked during one of the seminars at Urbana '93. Without waiting for an answer, she said, with tears streaming down her face, "About 12 short-term missionaries for every Navajo Indian." She went on to explain…
The Editorial of Ralph D. Winter
…What is the saddest story in American history? There have been a lot of them. Certainly one of the saddest was the time in colonial Massachusetts when fourteen friendly "Christian Indian villages" were burned and most of the Indians killed. This was so ghastly an event because those very same…
“Scouting Out The Land”
…Wycliffe Bible Translators has opened up a new category of workers for "Surveyors" to "scout out the land"-to find out where the most critical need for translation work is. Dr. Ted Bergman is Wycliffe's Language Survey Coordinator. He was formerly a physicist, working on lasers, optics and missiles as a…
AD2000 News and Updates
…During the month of October, all around the world, Christians joined together in "Praying Through the Window," probably the most widespread prayer effort in the history of the Church. Like never before, over 20 million Christians are focused on an area called the 10/40 Window. This window stretches across North…
Operation World: Introduction
…This is the introduction to the special 100,000 edition mentioned on page 11 If Zondervan offered to print a special edition of 100,000 copies for you, what kind of an introduction would you devise for such an incredible book as this one? Well, here is what was finally printed: Greetings!…
MF Behind the Scenes
…The potential is enormous. The possible impact is mind boggling. We are developing a bold new strategy to put Mission Frontiers into the hands of every mission and church leader in the world. I believe that the life changing message of reaching the unreached peoples contained in MF is helping…
Which Missionary Is Doing The MOST Strategic Work?
…Are all mission activities equally strategic? Here are some tests for your mission judgment! Missionary A This missionary is working "overseas" (is that important?) with a strong, indigenous church--the result of 80 years of fine missionary effort--helping an existing church movement to get its seminary going, and to get its…
New Network Established
…Introduction In order to accomplish the AD 2000 goals of a "Church for every people and the Gospel for every person"--two primary efforts needed to be part of the plan: We need to intentionally plan how to proclaim the Gospel to every person; We need to train the leaders who…
The Caribbean Commits to “A Church for Every People by AD2000”
…As the last region to adopt the strategies of the AD 2000 & Beyond Movement, the Caribbean is moving rapidly to implement these strategies and to challenge Evangelical leaders to become involved in ensuring there is a church for every people and the Gospel for every person by the year…
Christopher Columbus
…barter for gold. They simply seized it, doing violence to any Indians who protested. Quarrelling among themselves and killing one another, they had split into factions, and were thus easily ambushed and overrun. " It was in this situation that Columbus found himself totally unable to meet the challenge of…
Building the Missing Bridge
…The numbers are astounding! In just the last two years the number of cross-cultural missionaries from the third world has jumped by 10,000 from 39,000 to 49,000. And this is just the beginning. It is estimated that there will be well over 100,000 non-western missionaries by the end of the…
Mission Executives Section
…Introduction by Ralph Winter Here is a fascinating chain of events: A small bombshell exploded at a meeting in 1972 of mission executives and professors. A Southern Baptist missions professor proposed that eight years later (in 1980) there be a world level meeting comparable to the most famous mission meeting…
Editorial Comment
…Note to reader: Due to the unexpectedly long period between the last issue of Mission Frontiers and this one (four months), AND, due to the incredible events during this period, we have had to lengthen this issue to the maximum and at the same time continue the editorial on from…
Editorial Comment
…Roberta and I have been gone longer than we have ever been away from the Center. We spent four weeks in May in Morocco, London (two weeks), and Riga (Latvia), the latter week being the AD2000 Movement's meeting of about 1,000 representing the entire former Soviet Union and the Baltic…
Unreached People Prayer Cards
…The one essential ingredient required in order to bring about a world- wide movement to reach the unreached and establish a church for every people by the year 2000 is prayer. Frank Kaleb Jansen and the Adopt- A-People Clearinghouse have come up with a unique tool to mobilize this essential…
Eighteen Barrels and Two Big Crates
…How and why our "stuff" gets in the way of our witness. The most embarrassing moment in my missionary career occurred near the beginning, 33 years ago, when our baggage arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Its arrival had been delayed for four months due to a dock workers' strike that…