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Editorial Comment
…The Mysterious Tension in Missions Today A young single man "in the process," or "in the habit" of looking around for a girl to marry will face a great shifting of gears once marriage is behind him and children begin to appear. A new process, new habits, a whole new…
Which Missionary Is Doing The MOST Strategic Work? You Choose.
…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 church-planting efforts better organized. This church movement already undertakes evangelistic efforts which reach individuals…
The Strategy Division Taking the Pulse of the World
…Strategy comes from the Greek word for "generalship" of armies. But it can also be used for the way any group marshals its resources to achieve its goals. The goal of the U.S. Center is to be used by the Lord of the Harvest to help plant a viable, indigenous,…
Midnight in Moscow 1000 Church Leaders Meet To Save The USSR
…"I love you, I love you, my Russian brothers. We are one in Christ." A Muslim convert from Soviet Central Asia addressed 900 Soviet delegates and 150 from 24 other countries gathered in a Moscow hotel. He testified to the way God had worked in his life, finishing with a…
Reaching the Hindu World
…There are more Hindus in the world than Protestant Christians. Protestants constitute 10.4% of the world population; Hindus nearly 13.1%. Despite hundreds of years of efforts to reach them, they still remain a large group to be won to the Lord. The growth of Hinduism had been mainly biological until…
That Ishmael Might Live Under His Blessing
…About 2000 BC: Abraham, the friend of God, cries out in prayer for his son Ishmael to live under God's blessing. AD 610: Mohammed, a descendant of Ishmael, proclaims himself a prophet of the One true God--thus paving the way to become the founder of Islam. Boasting almost a billion…
Pray for Muslims in China!
…China: A Single Ethnic Group? Most people think of the People's Republic of China (PRC) as being almost exclusively Han Chinese. Most mission publications speak of China as if it were all one ethnic group. However, as you can see from the following map, only about half of the Chinese…
Global Reports
…Contact any of these organizations at 818/797-1111 or address 1605 Elizabeth St., Pasadena, CA 91104 USA TRIBALS Intitute of Tribal Studies Dave Sitton, who has been a missionary in Papua New Guinea, plans to multiply his years of experience and his burden for tribal peoples by reviving the Institute of…
Crucial Issues in Missions Part 1
…What a time to be peering into the future! It is as if a whole string of volcanoes has erupted in Eastern Europe, and almost the entire world is now clouded by massive and nearly impenetrable dust and fallout! Do we expect in the nineties to see half of the…
South Africa:
…Thomas Wang recently visited South Africa. He spent two weeks in late June and early July visiting churches in Johannesburg, Capetown, Wellington and Durban. Notice the emphasis on the year 2000--lacing in the Asia Declaration in the previous article.,--EditorGod has opened my eyes to see the coming of a new…
Area Offices Report
…PROCLAIM CENTER--Portland Steve Wecks reports that "a real vision and earnestness for renewal and evangelization" is spreading through their prayer groups. Most of these groups have been "finding and networking with existing mission efforts to their adopted people groups. This has served to fuel and fan the fires of these…
“Hope Does Not Disappoint” (Rom. 5:5)
…This story should be subtitled: "Dangerous Things to Avoid, If You Want to Keep Your Church from Making a Global Impact." Avoid the Perspectives Course. This church didn't. The first course was held in fall, 1983. Senior pastor Dan Davis attended "out of sympathy for the poor coordinator." The "poor"…
Global Reports
…News from Agencies Collaborating With the US Center for World Mission Argentina The Toba Indians: Missionaries Who Need a Surveyor! Dave Sand, a Mobilization staff member recently returned from Argentina, reports the need for a surveyor to assist the Toba Indians in northern Argentina. The Toba Indians in Chaco, Argentina,…
Global Peoples Profiles:
…Hazara of Afghanistan There are 1,586,900 clearly identified Hazara people in Afghanistan, though other sources report estimates that go as high as 6,000,000. They are located in the central mountains of Afghanistan between Kabul and Herat (Hazarajat), in Kabul, in the area between Maimana and SariPul, in settlements of north…
How to Win Friends and Influence People
…Grant Parks (not his real name) recently began work among the Kurds----- the same group we heard about a few years ago when the Iraqi military gas-bombed their towns along the Iranian border. The Kurds are truly one of the Middle East's "people without a home" ----- unwelcome everywhere they…
Global Perspective Grabs New Zealand
…Dr. Bob Hall, a sociology professor from New Zealand, visited the campus for a few weeks and shared how New Zealanders have imported the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course. MF: Bob, when did the Perspectives course hit New Zealand? Bob: Perspectives was begun in New Zealand in 1987,…
Catch the Vision of Your Part in the Big Picture
…Something’s happening. Something big, dangerous. —And you can be part of it. God is doing amazing things in our world. He’s sending Navajo missionaries to the Laplanders, shaking up American finances for His worldwide Cause, blasting open the Iron Curtain, raising a movement of excited disciples ready to go anywhere…
The Cross and the Crescent
…Excerpts from the book We have introduced our readers to many fine books over the years. We have offered them for so low a price that it ought to be obvious that we were not trying to cash in on their sale. We are in a book ministry, not a…
Fresh Thinking on Muslim Missions
…Never before has a major mission with vast experience in non-Muslim mission efforts suddenly expanded into Muslim countries—and with fresh, new perspectives! —Ed. Over the years missions have gained vast experience in translation, but primarily for animists, not followers of Islam. Is any of what has been learned with animists…
Seeing the Big Picture
…[Part I of this paper focused upon the general world scene during the last 4,000 years, from the time the Great Commission was given to Abraham. This part is focused on the American scene, not to ignore other parts of the world but to focus on the area where most…