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Editorial Comment
…Dear Friends, Vroo-oo-mm!! Not since the close of the Second World War have more profoundly significant events, in one month, erupted on the world scene. Earthquakes and hurricanes—mere side-shows compared to these astonishing events on the global level. Boom, boom, boom, the Eastern bloc countries are yielding to massive popular…
Live! From Pasadena
…George Carey and his wife Nita have been on staff at the U.S. Center for World Mission since June 1988. George is heading up a new collaborating agency, News Service 2000, and is presently the only full-time worker in this new broadcast ministry. The following interview gives you a chance…
The Koreans Are Coming!
…Editor's Note: An urgent, fascinating challenge for Western mission agencies is to know how best to help Third World mission forces. Young Church, Arise! Korean churches at home and abroad are getting ready to join the forces of world missions. Korea is only 100 years old in Christ, but already…
At the Center
…Summer courses are in full swing at William Carey International University. Classes are being offered in the following areas: Chinese, Muslim, Hindu, Japanese, Korean, and African studies; teaching English to speakers of other languages; introduction to the World Christian movement; international community development; and intercultural communications. For further information on…
Getting the Word Out
…You might expect the world’s largest cooperative mission center to have a large and experienced media division! But that’s not the case! Just twelve people—that’s right, one dozen—keep the plates spinning for three periodicals, an audio-visual media department, a graphics office, communication links with other autonomous centers for world mission,…
The Second Coming and Missions
…In Acts chapter one, Jesus ascended, and the angels said that Jesus would return. Jesus himself told us, “I go to prepare a place for you, and I will come again” (John 14:2). This promise is a fact of history. The Second Coming is not a pipedream nor a story…
At the Center
…Staff of the William Carey International University (WCIU) are busily preparing for Alumni Weekend (Friday-Saturday, May 19-20) and Commencement (Sunday, May 21). Although many of the weekend's events are primarily intended for WCIU and “Perspectives” graduates and current students, other friends of WCIU and the U.S. Center are also welcome…
Editorial Comment
…Dear fellow believer, It is a genuine privilege to know you are a believer. I can’t quite imagine you would be hopeful enough to read this bulletin at all if you were not one of that great and growing host of redeemed people across the world today whose lives have…
Snowbirds Welcome! (and Other Volunteers, Too)
…Southern California is a nice place to be, especially in the wintertime. Just ask the retired couples who descend on our campus every year between October and April! Most are members of the Mobile Missionary Assistance Program (MMAP) and come with their R-Vs in groups of eight for three weeks…
Choice Phrases from the Lausanne Covenant
…Introduction We are deeply stirred by what God is doing in our day, moved to penitence by our failures and challenged by the unfinished task of evangelization.... We are determined by his grace to obey Christ's commission to proclaim [the gospel] to all mankind and to make disciples of every…
Beyond “Native Missionaries”
…One thing the Asia Missions Association conference in Pasadena has done is throw new light on an old subject. The newest “talk” in certain local church circles today is about “native missionaries.” “Native missionaries don’t cost as much and, as a matter of fact, they’re better than traditional missionaries,” some…
1986: Threshold Year for a New Movement?
…From Roberta Winter's soon to be published book I Will Do A New Thing One hundred years ago, the famous evangelist DL. Moody invited 251 college students to a month¬long Bible conference on the grounds of his newly established school for boys in western Massachusetts. The event marked the bum…
Unreached Peoples Report
…In early September, the Frontier Peoples Conmittee of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association asked its 90 mission agencies to report on their progress in opening new fields among the 17,000 unreached people groups of the world. Every month in Mission Frontiers we will condense the report sent in froth one…
News
…VCR's Provide New Gospel Outlet in USSR According to reports from ISSACHAR Frontier Mission Research, the Soviet government recently announced its citizens would, for the first time, be permitted to purchase and own video cassette players.At the moment,' said ISSACHAR founder and president George K Otis Ill. "units are available…
Achieving a Mission Mindset
…Since Grace Chapel was formed 30 years ago, missionary outreach has been one of its top priorities. In the earliest days, seminary students from Gordon Divinity School (now Gordon¬Cornwell Theological Seminary) were involved in leadership arid brought with them a vision for missions. The founding laity were also very mission…
Restricted Access Countries
…A researcher with a mission that seeks to place missionaries in "closed" or, as he prefers to call them, "restricted access" countries spoke recently at the US. Center for World Mission. He talked about some of the pressures one might experience while working in countries with varying degrees of restriction…
News
…Cat Stevens Opens First Islamic State School in Britain Former rock star Cat Stevens. now convened to Islam, has obtained permission to operate the first official Muslim State School in Britain. Formerly subsidized by Stevens's record royalties, the Islamic Primary School in North London will now receive a massive cash…
What Mean These Dates?
…These four pages portray the background of the century initiated by the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886. However, something else happened that year that was far more important. As a matter of fact, almost all these events here listed give us insight into what God was doing…
The Marketplace
…Like its predecessors, Tand if My People, Come Together Again, a new musical by Jimmy and Carol Owens, is not intended be so much entertainment as it is to be a group of Christians gathered together and led by a minister/narrator in worship to the Lord. The musical contains IS…
The Hidden Meaning of the Statue of Liberty
…When the Statue of Liberty was first erected back in 1886, millions of immigrants had already come to this country, just as many, in fact, as would come in the massive immigration of the next 30 years. But there would be a new startling factor! In 1860, immigrants from southern…