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Miracles in Northern India
…lichen Bhuyan, a native missionary, from India had USC WM staff members sitting on the edges of their seats recently as he told stories of the power of the Holy Spirit at work in his homeland. Bhuyan is secretary of the North Bank Baptist Christian Association (NEBCA) which works on…
Three Men, Three Ministries
…Frank Underhill: Mission Educator Frank Underhill is headed for a lot of responsibility. A 36 year old college professor, he's just been named Interim Executive Director, Interim Director of Mobilization, and Director of Training at the new Midwest Center for World Mission in Oak Park, Illinois. He, his wife Cherish,…
Introducing the Global Prayer Digest
…Global Prayer Digest Along with the new title, this backbone" of the Frontier Fellowship movement, has a new cover design and a slightly revised format. Beginning in January 1984, the Daily Prayer Guide has become the Global Prayer Digest more clearly reflecting this prayer tool's function of digesting strategic developments…
A Call for a Mission Renewal Movement
…Bartlotti, notional coordinator for the Frontier Fellowship, here suggests lessons to be learned from five major mission movements in the United States between 7885 and 7920. Len's conclusions are as contemporarily relevant as they are historically rooted. Note in particular how the Frontier Fellowship satisfies the conditions of a comparable…
Frontier Fellowship
…Bartlotti, Frontier Fellowship National Coordinator, and Ralph Winter. USCWM General Director, met with the Frontier Peoples Committee of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association and the executive committees of both the IEMA and the Evangelical Foreign Minions Association. Under discussion was a call for new partnership In promoting mission education and…
Face the Gospel in Art Forms
… Within many non Western cultures, singing and dancing, painting and sculpture, drama, poetry and legend in fact all the arts are one of the main methods of communication. Eugene and Mary Lou Totten, directors of Fellowship of Artists for Cultural Evangelism (FACE), put it like this: "The arts of non…
The Perils and Privileges of the Student Volunteer Movement
…This article is an abridged transcription of an address given by Robert Wilder at the Student Volunteer Movement Conference held in 1891 in Cleveland, Ohio. Wilder helped to found the Student Volunteer Movement in 1886 at Princeton College, out of which 40,000 students committed themselves to spreading the Gospel to…
The Last Frontier
…The world is about to see the most concentrated missionary effort in history. It will be the final assault by the most potent missionary force ever gathered. This last great missionary surge will see the return of the pith helmeted Bible warrior or at least the principles which sent him…
Meet the Director’s Wife
…My husband, Dr. Ralph Winter, left last night for Korea, where he is speaking at a major missions conference--the first of its kind-which pulls together the leaders of all the denominations there. The Korean Church is ready to take its place as one of the major missionsending countries in the…
Partnering with God: Prayer as a Crisis Response
…God invites all of us to join in crisis response through prayer. In recent years, prayers for unreached and unengaged peoples have increased, along with crises and disasters in many of the same places. We don’t pray for crises to happen, yet the increase in man-made and natural disasters has…
APEST: Roles for Equipping Everyone in Disaster Response
…God designed the equipping of His Church to enable His people to not only endure but also to be fruitful in times of crisis, disaster, and suffering. What are some ways God sets up His Church for success in response to suffering? While in prison in Rome, Paul writes to…
Acts and the Movement of God:
…Why did you write Acts and the Movement of God? There’s a gap between the movement of God described in the pages of Acts and our experience, especially in the Western world. Luke wrote Acts to help us bridge that gap. When Jesus rose from the dead, He encountered a…
Seven Core Values That Guide GEN
…*Click on the PDF icon to view this article in full GEN’s Central Commitment The Global Ethnodoxology Network (GEN) seeks to remain faithful to a biblical vision of the future by encouraging communities of Jesus followers in every culture to engage with God and the world through their own artistic…
Redefining Revival for a New Generation
… The Purpose of Revival Many today are asking what is the point and purpose of revival? In light of our present consideration of a new era of mission mobilization in the global Church, this subject is important. Revival in God’s Church and mission mobilization of that Church for His purposes…
MOBIOLOGY: An Introduction
…Over recent centuries, the development and refining of missiology has helped the Church focus on the missional task at hand. It may have begun in the colonial context with a geographical focus but it has been considerably refined in recent decades to direct our attention to people groups and today…
Bringing Back the King of Kings
…An increasing number of us in the prayer and mission movements believe we may well be in the run-up to the return of our Lord Jesus Christ! He told us to watch for the signs of the times to know when that will be. Perhaps the most important sign is…
Toward a Biblical Missiology of Mobilization
…What is God doing in mission mobilization around the world? I believe the global Church is on the cusp of an explosion of focused mission mobilization across denominations, organizations and individual local ministries. More mobilization-focused ministries, courses, tools and trainings have sprung up globally in the last decade than ever…
People Groups and the Bible
…Sometimes we hear that people groups are a recent invention of social science. In the following article I answer this critique by showing that in fact, people groups are as old as Scripture itself. Human Grouping in the Old Testament The Old Testament portrays the people of the world with…
Seeing the Unreached World As It Really Is
…People group research is not a fixed science. Rather, it is a constantly changing dynamo of motion as people groups move, assimilate into other cultures, regain and lose their languages, come to Christ and fall away from the faith. As a result, a continually updated people group list is essential…
Is The World Still A Waffle?
…I stared at the booklet on the desk in utter amazement. It was November 1991. I was sitting in the prayer room in Hudson Taylor Hall on the campus of the U.S. Center for World Mission. My prayer shift was from midnight to 4:00 a.m. It was now 2:30. As…