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CMA Votes to Double the North American Constituency by 1987
…In 1978, delegates to the General Council of The Christian and Missionary Alliance voted unanimously to double the North American constituency by the centennial year of 1981. It Is a commendable, perhaps presumptuous, action to mandate, doubling in ten years of inclusive membership and churches that took ninety years to…
Let’s Go Forward
…"That you may abound In hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" Romans 15:1? Making Mountains out of Molehills A Personal Statement - Ralph D. Winter Dear people: I am a former engineer, turned minister, then missionary, then professor, then foolhardy fanatic, along with my wife and a faithful…
Keep the Ball Rolling
…It was a night to remember, April 10, 1980. It was my 11th class as a new program coordinator of the PERSPECTIVES course at State College. Pennsylvania. Earlier that evening I had introduced the guest speaker to the seventy students who had enrolled in the course. For two hours we…
From the Director
…As election time draws near hundreds of thousands of local workers seem to come out of the woodwork. They beat the bushes, badger thousands of people to get a few more votes. They do not count on winning. They eagerly and urgently do their best. Well, we are profoundly grateful…
Gordon Cornwell Theological Seminary Eastern Mission Bulwark
…Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary is another example of the wedding of missions vigor and theological education. Zone C.Pratt. In his third year of Gordon Conwell's Div. program, is chairmen of he Student Missions Committee of GCTS and author of this article, reprinted from Wherever magazine of TEAM. Zane spent last…
From the Director
…Dear Friends, Looking back to September 1st. We had reason to be: Depressed, because we fell so far short of our $6 million goal. Exhilarated, because we reached 10,230 new people in only a few days, and in the process discovered a truly workable way of reaching thousands of others.…
Why do you need a campus?
…What is the value of a campus? In a day in which American evangelicals are bombarded with building programs and property acquisition schemes, how do I tell you my thoughts about the USCWM campus without sounding like a huckster? Is our attempt to establish this Center merely another crisis to…
Three World Level Meetings
…Wheaton, June 20-July 1 An international gathering of Christian leaders is always exciting, and even more so when such leaders gather from widely different traditions. Wheaton '83, June 20 July 1. was no exception. About 325 people from 55 nations met around the theme: I will Build My Church Each…
Supporting Missions in an Age of Change
…Bartlotti led a workshop on how to be a World Christian. During the plenary session Len also shared about the Frontier Fellowship. Each person was given a copy of the August edition of the Daily Prayer Guide as well as a copy of the new Frontier Fellowship church bulletin insert,…
From the Director
…Dear Believing Friend, for A stone's throw from my office at this very modest second hand campus you'll World find a whole lot of missionaries. They are backMission eager, joyful, really neat people, with backV tiSSlOfl grounds of extended experience (averaging PAflDEH&CAa%S. over 20 years) in 40 countries and 6'1…
Saving Ourselves and Others
…America today is a saveyourself society if there ever was one. But does it really work? The underdeveloped societies suffer from one set of diseases: tuberculosis, malnutrition, pneumonia, parasites, typhoid, cholera, typhus, etc. Affluent America has virtually invented a whole new set of diseases: obesity, arteriosclerosis, head disease, strokes, lung…
News From the Frontier(ier) Line!
…What is the front line in our battle to see the "hidden peoples" reached? Amazingly the battle for these unreached "nations" will be won or lost not on the 'foreign" field but on the home front (wherever the Church is at home, in the West or in the Third World).…
Missionary Associates Beginning a Movement of “Senders”
…For when your treasure is there will your heart be also. Matt 6:21 April 6, 1983 Dear Prayer Partners. In this letter I'd like to share some things that I've learned and ideas that I've had about finances, and then ask for your advice on how to spend my future.…
The Larger Context of the Frontier Fellowship Movement
…To achieve the goal of A Church for Every People by the Year 2000, there must be a specific mission effort aimed at each of the 16,750 groups within which there Is no such church currently. Two points underscore the need for a major movement to deal properly with this…
Letters
…Dear Dr. & Mrs. Winter. I have just received your most recent statistical printout, "The Final Mission Frontiers 1983" and with a friend have studied the information. It is so very well done. I will be teaching Freshman students "Introduction to Missions" and am wondering If it would be possible…
Frontier Fellowship
…On February 6 8 a mission executives 'huddle' drew 35 mission leaders representing 28 agencies to the LI. S. Center for World Mission campus in Pasadena, California. The purpose was to discuss the Frontier Fellowship campaign and other practical resources for frontier mission work and mobilization. Large interdenominational agencies like…
The Explosion of New Missions Within the Non-Western World
…Some years ago I got a letter from the editor of a World Council of churches publication inviting me to write an article for their journal. The International Review of Mission. Me t this was an unusual opportunity and proceeded immediately to develop what I felt was an important question…
Letters
…Bartlotti), These Daily Prayer Guides are inspired and written by the Holy Spirit! Please use my enclosed order to see how much I appreciate them. (Ed., He ordered 50 Dec. and 500 January copies!) How I loved the Nov. 1st one about our Servant! How I learnt a powerful new…
Special Report
…Mission Frontiers looks at the missionary task today from the standpoint of mission agencies. IFMA Declares Priority of Frontier Penetration It is a painful moment when Hollywood gathers all of the contenders for the annual Oscar Award together on a single stage. Ordinarily, they are the center of attention. Now…
The IFMA Frontier Declaration
…Introduction We, the delegates to the 65th annual meeting of the IFMA, recognize the historical objective of our member missions has been that of pioneer church planting evangelism. We declare our renewed determination to penetrate the remaining frontiers of those peoples which represent the final barriers to the completion of…