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The Pursuit of Knowledge and Truth
…When the pioneers of Western Protestant missions arrived in India they established a college (1813), which grew into Serampore University. Their leader William Carey, a cobbler turned Bible translator, taught the Bible as well as languages, botany, horticulture, forestry and astronomy.1 These Baptist missionaries had come to save souls: Why…
Contextualization Among Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists
…Much has been written over the past 25 years on the application of contextualization in ministry among Muslims. In 1998 I (John) wrote an article for the Evangelical Missions Quarterly in which I presented a model for comparing six different types of ekklesia or congregations (which I refer to as…
The Inside Story Behind the “World Christian Global Action Plan”
…Editor’s note: in recent months other publications have begun to explain and explore the enormous resources in the second edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE2) and its companion volume, World Christian Trends (Trends). But few have given attention to a proposed action plan embedded within World Christian Trends –…
Horizon Six: Using Biculturals
…The strategy that catapulted the Church across the Roman Empire may foreshadow mission breakthroughs on the final frontiers. Truly, we are racing through the last chapter of history. As our God pens the story, our eyes follow Him just a few lines behind--drinking in the wonderful tale of Creation He…
The AD2000 Women’s Track
…Christian women in Abidjan, Ivory Coast have caught the vision to reach unreached peoples. Violet Mtegha, the regional representative for the AD2000 Women's Track, tells of one woman who selected the Tuareg people, thinking that "all" she would have to do is pray. Then she discovered a group of Tuaregs…
AD2000 News and Updates
…New Co-Chairman Named The AD2000 Movement is pleased to announce that four new Honorary Co- Chairmen have been named. They are Billy Graham, Bill Bright of Campus Crusade, Luis Palau, and Kyun Chik Han of Korea. Praying Through the Window Peter Wagner reports that over 20 million people have committed…
Granada Hills Community Church
…When Stan & Valli Yoder and their three sons had to remain in the USA because of health reasons, after two terms as missionaries with World Partners of the Missionary Church, their mission involvement was changed but not ended. Now, five years later, they are pouring their energy into mobilizing…
How Can All Peoples Be Reached By The Year 2000?
…This year we celebrate the bicentenary of William Carey who is known as the father of modern day missions. Carey arrived in India in 1792. One hundred years later A.T. Pierson made the statement: "At this centenary of William Carey; God's signals flash like lightning and boom like thunder around…
Are there Unreached Peoples in the Russian Federation?
…Today we are witnessing the most rapid, dramatic, revolutionary and far reaching changes in our world that have been seen in hundreds of years. The incredible events of the last two years in Eastern Europe and the now former Soviet Union are dramatic proof that this is true. These changes…
Editorial Comment
…Dear friend, Are you sitting in the auditorium at Urbana ö at the spectacular Student Mission Conference? Or, are you hastily glancing at junk mail PLUS Christmas mail? No matter. In either case you can't avoid the scary reality that the world is being taken over by awfully young people!…
Introducing the First of Two Final Chapters of Roberta H. Winter’s Book
…I Will Do A New Thing tells the thrilling story of the founding of the U.S. Center for World Mission and its first 10 years of ministry. Roberta Winter is adding two more chapters of faith-stretching events leading up to the day when the campus mortgage was burned. But this…
Meet My Friend
…For this special issue of Mission Frontiers on Women in Mission, I want to introduce you to my friend, Monica Mitchell (MM), the chair of the board of William Carey International University. Her leadership of the WCIU Board has been a profound service to the university and I personally have…
John Wesley’s Church Planting Movement:
…When John Wesley was born in 1703, four million out of Britain’s five million people lived in absolute poverty— unless they found enough food for that day, they would begin to starve to death. When John Wesley launched a Church Planting Movement in this context, he not only changed the…
For God’s Glory in All Peoples
…This article adapted from the 25th USCWM anniversary booklet published in 2001 "Of all the things Roberta and I have done in our lifetimes, I do not hesitate to believe that the most valuable single accomplishment is the formation of a living, breathing human community that is dedicated to pursuing…
Evangelizing Whole Families
…THIS ARTICLE IS EXCERPTED FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE BOOK, FAMILY AND FAITH IN ASIA, PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM CAREY LIBRARY AND USED BY PERMISSION. Trends Renewing Emphasis on Family in the Twenty-First Century Down through history until the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s, the major pattern of families was…
John Wesley’s Church Planting Movement:
…When John Wesley was born in 1703, four million out of Britain’s five million people lived in absolute poverty—unless they found enough food for that day, they would begin to starve to death. When John Wesley launched a Church Planting Movement in this context, he not only changed the eternal…
Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist Followers of Jesus: How Should We Respond?
…Can you have genuine members of the Body of Christ who do not consider themselves “Christian” but do consider themselves Bible-believing followers of Jesus? Is it possible to have people who faithfully study the Bible in order to follow and obey Jesus but who also consider themselves to be Muslims,…
The Burden of the Past
…India has been a key mission field for Western missionaries for decades. Yet it remains, at best, 3 percent Christian. In examining the causes, Dr. Herbert Hoefer addresses the effects of the missionary heritage. IT WAS MY FIRST SUNDAY in India. My wife and I had enrolled in the Tamil…
The Burden of the Past
…India has been a key mission field for Western missionaries for decades. Yet it remains, at best, 3 percent Christian. In examining the causes, Dr. Herbert Hoefer addresses the effects of the missionary heritage. It was my first Sunday in India. My wife and I had enrolled in the Tamil…
Looking at Missions from Their Side, Not Ours
…I hate to ever put my car on a lift! It exposes the underside which is dirty and greasy, and not intended for public display. I guess that is why I have avoided the Jiffy Lube trend. You take your car and drive right over someone’s head. Under the guise…