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Are You Standing on the Shoulders of Giants?
…The year 2000 has provoked a flurry of lists of the "best of the millennium" and "best of the century" as it relates to books, events, films, people, and other categories. The cable TV network in the USA, A&E recently produced a series entitled Biography of the Millennium: 100 People--1,000…
What Is a Church Planting Movement?
…In 1998, the International Mission Board's Overseas Leadership Team adopted a vision statement: We will facilitate the lost coming to saving faith in Jesus Christ by beginning and nurturing Church Planting Movements among all peoples. This vision statement guides the work of nearly 5,000 IMB missionaries serving in more than…
A Fresh Perspective on Mobilizing the Church
…Years of experience in evangelism, pastoring and missions has given Larry Reesor a passion for mobilizing churches and leading them to be obedient to the Great Commission. As founder and president of Global Focus, Reesor is introducing pastors and churches to the principles of personalized involvement in global missions. The…
News
…Laborers for the Harvest: Baptist Laborers Richmond, Virginia The International Mission Board of the Southern Baptists (IMB) welcomed 338 long-term workers to the field in 1998. Additionally, they've sent 547 two-year workers. Together, the figures represent a 33.4 percent increase over 1997, roughly ten times the average growth rate of…
A Friend in India
…Through my window I can see the words "William Carey Block" on a recently constructed wing of this Indian High School. Later this year, if completed, a multi-purpose auditorium at Hebron International Christian School is to be named after Graham Staines and his two precious sons, Phillip and Timothy. Few…
What is True Spirituality?
…The gruesome death of Graham Staines and his two sons reveals, among other things, a sterling example of a faithful witness. "OH, INDIA!" came the first heavily-weighted words sent out by one of Graham Staines' long-time associates and co-laborers for the Gospel in India. He was passing on word that…
Mobilization on the Brink of the Next Millennium
…"How do we mobilize this generation for Christ and His Great Commission?" "It isn't fair!" exploded Aaron, a 22-year old who had been radically redeemed from addictions to drugs and alcohol only one year earlier. "How could it be that all those unreached people must go to hell?" It was…
Letters
…What Color is a Missionary? I have been hesitant to give MF out to my students because of what it subtly communicates. In almost all cases, you have pictures portraying white people as the missionaries and non-white people as the "being reached out to." This communicates a strong message to…
Editorial Comment
…It is truly embarrassing (for men) to review the extraordinary impact of women in Christian mission. Are women superior beings? Have you ever heard of a woman serial killer? Why are our prisons (a thousand new ones in just the last few years) jammed with practically all men? And why…
Should We Stop Sending Missionaries?
…In an ongoing effort to deal with the important issues surrounding the use of Western money to support indigenous mission work, we are featuring the comments of Christian leaders from various backgrounds. Robertson McQuilkin recently expressed his thoughts on this subject in an article in Christianity Today. It is presented…
Joy Ridderhof
…Through her joy-filled faith and and passion for souls, thousands of people groups have a record of the Gospel. What could God do with a woman full of faith and love for Him? What could He do with a woman too weak in body to be a long-term field missionary?…
Horizon Three: Re-thinking Mission Education The Breakthrough for On-Field Mission Training
…The amateurization versus professionalization debate--the two long-standing extremes in the training dimension of missionaries--is being substantially diminished as distance education reshapes the educational landscape of North America. Historically marginalized because of its perceived illegitimacy, distance education is now becoming mainstream as more and more colleges and universities vie for their…
The Escalating Filipino Force for the Nations
…In the four brief years since its founding, the Asian Center for Missions has become the Philippines' largest agency sending workers outside the Philippine archipelago. The Philippines have long been the target of North American missionaries. Today, they host over 3000 foreigners focused on the Master's missionary work. But a…
Editorial Comment
…This issue grasps for insight into "the new horizons" of mission. Not because we are running out of things to do.No...but because these stirring NEW HORIZONS are piling up on us. Like the unexpected power of a huge volcano, the global success of the Gospel has forced major changes in…
Mongolia
…Like a land outside of time, Mongolia was one of the last political countries in the world to gain a Christian church of any kind. It is hard to imagine an entire nation as late as 1990, complete with membership in the United Nations, whose people had no knowledge that…
Fighting Dependency Among the Aucas
…In 1956, Nate Saint, father of Steve Saint, and four other young missionaries (Jim Elliott, Pete Fleming, Ed McCulley, and Roger Youderian) were speared to death while trying to reach the “Auca” Indians (more properly called Huaorani) in the jungles of Ecuador. Today, Steve Saint is helping them to break…
Editorial Comment
…Message From Roberta Winter Dear People, Please let me thank all of you who have been faithfully praying for me. I have gone through my fourth 4-day round of chemo, which is both dangerous and destructive, and am nearing the dreaded day of a bone marrow transplant. That is far…
News from the JESUS Film Project
…North Africans Accept 50,000 JESUS Videos As regular as summer, North Africans residing in Europe head south in July and August to return to their countries of birth and the family members there. For many, a unique gift pack went with them as they boarded ferries on foot or in…
Re-Viewing 1997
…At the U.S. Center, looking ahead The staff of the U.S. Center for World Mission, with its associated university, at present consists of a nucleus of 158 adults and well over 100 children who are members of the intergenerational, evangelical Frontier Mission Fellowship, the founding entity, which is a standard…
A Field Worker Speaks Out
…While this is an exciting and passionate critique of a movement, by one who was closely involved in the very formation of the Adopt-A-People movement. It is a keen defense of the original principles, but adds many insights that can enhance the AAP movement. Ed. I find myself in an…