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Tribute to Jim Downing
…Editor’s Note: I first met Jim Downing in 1990 just after joining the U.S. Center for World Mission, now Frontier Ventures. I was very impressed by Jim’s passion for discipleship and completing world evangelization. That passion continued to burn brightly throughout his life. I was honored to work with Jim…
Will We Hinder or Accelerate Movements? The Choice is Ours.
…Will We Hinder or Accelerate Movements? The Choice is Ours. This is a serious problem! All over the world Christian workers are employing mission methods that hinder the development of movements to Christ. Worse yet, these well-meaning, hard-working, self-sacrificing servants of God may be doing more harm than good. They…
24:14, THE WAR THAT FINALLY ENDS
…A renewed war has been quietly waged for the last 30+ years. At first, it began as a quiet insurgence by a few “freedom fighters” unwilling to see billions of people live and die with no access to the gospel. Radicals, not accepting that so many lived in bondage to…
A Race You Won’t Want to Miss
…In my twenties, I (Jeff) was an elite distance runner with Nike. In 1982, I traveled from Oregon to run the New York City Marathon. I had trained for months, running 100 miles a week and pushing my body to its limits. However, on the day before the marathon I…
Next 40 Years
…1974 When Ralph D. Winter shared the vision for the unreached at Lausanne, most church and mission leaders around the world knew little about the concept. Information from around the world was hard to get. What Winter did learn compelled him, with Roberta, to start the U.S. Center for World…
It’s a Girl, The Three Deadliest Words.
…Anaya is pregnant and along with her husband, Arjun, and their entire extended family, they are hoping their latest child will be a boy. Anaya lives in a remote village of northern India where advanced medical technology such as ultrasound machines is not available. They will just have to wait…
Tackling Gendercide and the Two-Child Policy in China
…The following is from an interview conducted with Reggie Littlejohn on May 4, 2017. MF: Gendercide happens in many places, but you specifically focus on China. What are some of the factors that are unique to China? RL: Yes, China is not the only place where gendercide happens. But there…
Brothers and Sisters, Please Stop “Training” *
…Fifteen years ago, “Church Planting Movement” (CPM) was a relatively unheard of–and even widely questioned or opposed–concept. Today, many different types of ministries and efforts are being labeled “CPM.” Definition of CPM Over the last 20 years, as we have come to better understand this God-phenomenon called Church Planting Movement,…
How God Lead Us Into Roma Mission
…As we prepared to celebrate The Great Commission Center International’s (GCCI) 20th anniversary in 2013, we prayed to God for His guidance on launching new mission endeavors. When I came across an article on the Roma people in Eastern Europe in Christianity Today, I felt touched by the Lord. However,…
Obeying The Call
…It was midnight on a winter night when I returned home to Leskovac, Serbia by bus from a city about 90 miles away where my wife and I felt called to plant a new church. My wife was still up waiting for me. With sadness I said to her, “No,…
The Perspective of an Aging Apostolic Worker
…As success in ministry rises, it is so easy for our own self-estimation to rise with it–especially in the world of church planting movements. If a movement breaks out, then surely we were a key in that process. How easy for us to trot out our achievements in conversation and…
How Networks Are Shaping the Future of World Mission
…In the late 1980’s, David Barrett and James Reapsome published a book titled Seven Hundred Plans to Evangelize the World. In their book, they identified lack of cooperation and collaboration between Christian organizations as a major hindrance to world evangelization. Of all the hundreds of plans for global outreach they…
What Must Be Done?
…The Big Question “What will it take to see effective church‐planting efforts among all Muslim peoples?” That was the burning question that led to the birth of the Vision 5:9 network in 2002. The year before a handful of organizations began to discuss the need for collaboration regarding the remaining…
Here, There, or Far Away
…One afternoon as we were walking home from the market, we passed an elderly man on the road and stopped to exchange the normal series of greetings. He was surprised to find that foreigners like us were able to speak his language, as well as wear typical Fulbe clothing. Gesturing…
Reviving the Church’s Vision for the Final Frontiers
…EDITED BY RICK WOOD Introduction: By 1994 over 22,000 people had completed the Perspectives Study Program. Today, over 148,000 have and as a result have impacted churches and unreached peoples worldwide. The nature of the course is the primary reason for its hard-hitting effect. Perspectives is not simply an academic…
What Will it Take to See No Place Left
…In Romans 15:23 Paul says there is “no place left” for him in the region. Why is that? Another translation quotes Paul as saying “I have finished my work in these regions” (NLT). What can that mean? Surely there were millions of people in those regions that had still not…
No Place Left as the Benchmark
…I was walking with a group of Church Planting Movement initiators during an outing at a CPM conference. One of the most fruitful ones sidled up to me as we strolled along. He asked, “Steve, would you say we are experiencing a CPM in our city?” He was experiencing second-…
From Church to Movement
…Paul spent three years in Ephesus, a city of about 200,000 people and capital of the Roman province of Asia (modern-day Turkey) with a population of at least ten million people. At the end of Paul’s stay, Luke tells us, “all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province…
Gospel Tool:
…As adapted by No Place Left Practitioners Family Church set out to equip members to turn everyday interactions into gospel conversations. The 3 Circles tool they developed contributed to tripling their baptisms from 80 in 2013 to 240 in 2014. Movements in several parts of the world have adapted 3…
Making Sure We Are Making Sense
…Those of us in mission circles think a lot about how to communicate the gospel. Along the way we try out those ideas. Let me let you peek into part of a recent discussion between global workers with dozens of years (most over 30) “trying it out” all over the…