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Which peoples need priority attention?
…Editor’s note: This is the first report of the Research Track of the Unreached Peoples Consultation to be held in Singapore at the end of October later this year. The authors hope to encourage similar strategy reports related to the major blocs of unreached peoples. The Bible frequently draws attention…
Editorial
…Best Mission Book Yet In the bulletin you hold in your hands we present one of the chapters of perhaps the best book introducing missions in the past few years. Every serious believer should own and digest this small, keen book written by Stan Guthrie, who recently joined the editorial…
India
…With a billion people and a growing prominence on the world stage, India has also experienced a rise in communal tensions. And the church (by some measures) is in decline. Some are looking for new ways forward. In recent years, India has been quickly earning a more prominent place on…
Operation World 2001
…At first glance it might seem that we are reeling backwards at lightning speed. The previous edition of Operation World gave a global total of 488 million Protestants. The current edition lists Protestants at 349 million. What went wrong? How did we lose 139 million Protestants in one decade! Fortunately,…
Honor and Shame
…The following response to America’s recent terrorist attack has been edited from a message Bob Blincoe delivered to local pastors in the Phoenix area, September 14, 2001. Pastors of this city, fellow Christians and teachers of the Bible. To you falls the heavy burden of providing your congregations a biblical…
Wahhabism: Out of Control?
…What is Wahhabism? Probably few people have heard of this term before recent events. Wahhabism is a religious movement initiated by an 18th-century Islamic scholar, Mohammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1791). It began as a reform movement which called for the removal of all additions to Islam adopted by Muslims after…
A Woman of Vision
…Over the last few weeks, many of us who’ve been close to the Winter family have had time to reflect, cry, and examine ourselves. One of the things we reflected on was what we remember about Roberta Winter. Recently the Pasadena staff of the U.S. Center for World Mission gathered…
A Woman of Vision
…from the November 4 memorial service for Roberta Winter Over the last few weeks, many of us who’ve been close to the Winter family have had time to reflect, cry, and examine ourselves. One of the things we reflected on was what we remember about Roberta Winter. Recently the Pasadena…
Joshua Project 2000 is Reborn as Joshua Project II
…The mission of Joshua Project II is to highlight the peoples of the world who have the least exposure to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Joshua Project II seeks to accomplish this through information sharing and networking. Mission Frontiers proclaimed the launch of Joshua Project 2000 in November of 1995.…
Are We Trifling With Missions?
…Arthur T. Pierson challenges the church of the 1890s—and today—to lay down its materialism in an effort to make the Gospel “speed its way around the globe.” I am a little afraid that the seeds of a great apostasy are in the Church of God today, that in the midst…
Strategic Giving
…A fresh look at our life and our resources in light of the Kingdom. Believers are called to give of their resources. Most evangelicals would accept that statement as truth, whatever else they might say or feel about how well they’ve done in their personal practice of giving. Indeed, the…
Passing the Baton
…With remarkable accomplishments to its credit, the AD2000 and Beyond Movement closes its doors. But its impact lives on. For all of the AD2000 Movement’s short 12-year history, Mission Frontiers has been a partner with this movement in its efforts to mobilize the church to reach every unreached people group.…
The Vaglas Sing A Song from the Heart
…Sitting expectantly inside the building in Ghana, West Africa, were representatives from various churches in the Vagla area. As ethnomusicologists, we had come to coach them to develop indigenous hymnody—Christian music that would affirm their dual heritage as Vagla people and children of God. We were praying for songs that…
Reclaiming the Bhajan
…The average religious Hindu man—hungry for an encounter with the Ultimate Reality— responds to song perhaps more than any other form of communication. He wants to experience the Truth, to feel it. He is not content with mere intellectual understanding. Music is one of the best bridges from me, as…
Editorial Comment
…Few Christian thinkers today write with the penetration and boldness of Philip Yancey. His experience contemplating a beautiful young bride suddenly devastated by a fatal illness is where this editorial begins. It does not end there. Our mission in this world is not yet so perfectly obvious that we can…
Worship Becoming Mission: Urbana 2000
…Urbana 2000 was characterized by Jubilant praise to the Father which transformed into burning desire to proclaim His glory among the natons. Over 19,000 worshipers--mostly college-aged--crowded into a domed arena they affectionately called "the mother ship," to sing high praises to the Father and His Son, Jesus. Beginning on December…
The Unlikely Missionary
…Radio rises to the challenge of the unreached people groups. Radios have often been referred to as "portable missionaries"and with good justification. They provide direct access into the homes of the majority of people around the worldrich and poor alikeand thereby offer the church a wonderful challenge. Countless people today…
India
…With a billion people and a growing prominence on the world stage, India has also experienced a rise in communal tensions. And the church (by some measures) is in decline. Some are looking for new ways forward. In recent years, India has been quickly earning a more prominent place on…
Letters
…African American Mobilization I am overwhelmed with the latest issue of Mission Frontiers. I am with Operation Mobilization in San Diego. My wife and I have felt for years that mobilizing the African American community was our calling. We have been taking African Americans on short-term mission trips to South…
The Passion of William W. Colley
…Colley is recognized as the only African American Baptist to have served as an appointed missionary of both a white-administered missionary-sending agency and a black-administered missionary-sending agency. William W. Colley was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board, SBC in 1875 to serve in West Africa as the assistant to W.…