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Students: Duck out of missions by digging into debt! Or, read on for two solutions to avoid debt
…"Attention Urbana exhibitors: Students have complained that mission agencies lose interest in them when they reveal their student debt..." This announcement came minutes before the delegate deluge on day two of Urbana '96, an especially busy afternoon since many students were fasting during the lunch hour, thus coming to the…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Reader, Before we get down to the serious business of this issue, let's take note of the momentous things that may have happened in your life and mine since our last issue in 1996. For me personally: two very large events. My wife's return to unslowed cancer after a…
God’s Purpose Throughout History Revealed
…Editor's Comment: Across the years one of the most explosive novelties of the widespread Perspectives Study Program is the idea in the early lessons that the global Mission of God is the subject of the entire Bible. Abraham's call in Genesis 12 is the first appearance of the Great Commission.…
GCOWE ’97: Mission Executives Consultation
…Even though the first of over 500 mission leaders will not arrive in South Africa for GCOWE '97's Mission Executives Consultation for another 10 months, the process of collecting data on the Joshua Project 2000 unreached peoples is already bearing fruit. This data includes who is targeting which unreached people…
An Organizational Chart for Strategic Partnerships and Adopt-A-People Advocates
…A Description of the Chart The chart seen on the next page involves two basic elements: A Home- based Resource Network and a Field-based Strategic Partnership. These elements, numbered 1 and 2, would be duplicated 146 times along the lines of the Gateway People Clusters of the Joshua Project 2000…
Some Pointers for Personal Evangelism Among Educated Hindus
…Friendship evangelism is usually easy to initiate with Hindus. Most Hindus esteem religion in general and are free and open to speak about it. A sincere, nonjudgemental interest in all aspects of Indian Life will provide a good basis for friendship. Personal interaction with Hindus will lead to a more…
Trends In Global Worship:
…Revelation four and five has some awesome statements of worship. The curtain of heaven has been rolled back and John has been ushered on stage where he sees a 5-act drama of worship at the very throne room of heaven. He gropes for language describing the indescribable, especially the final…
Moving Mountains in the Himalayas
…The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights" (Habakkuk 3:19 NIV). God is moving mountains in the Himalayan region and prominently so in the country of Nepal. From 25 known Christian believers in 1961,…
Joshua Project Step 1: Identifying the Peoples Where Church Planting Is Most Needed
…Explanation of Joshua Project 2000 - Peoples List The following seven-page list of peoples is offered as a beginning reference point for the goal of a church for every people by the year 2000. This list is the result of the major streams of missions research information beginning to flow…
A New South Africa with a New Vision to Bless the Nations Pretoria, July 10, 1995
…These are unusual days in South Africa. After twenty years of isolation from international sports competition, South Africa not only participated in, but hosted, the Rugby World Cup last month. People came from around the world to be a part of the fever. Actually, South Africa not only hosted and…
Thy Kingdom Come A Church for Every People and the Gospel for Every Person by the Year 2000
…Chapter One: By the Year 2000? The AD 2000 Movement has a profound mission statement. It is more profound than meets the eye: A Church for Every People and the Gospel for Every Person By the Year 2000. Do these three phrases give us a crystal clear mandate? The Bible…
Reconciliation Is It the Missing Key to Revival And World Evangelization?
…Whether it be between Native Americans and White Americans or Armenians and Turks, past sins have placed barriers to witnessing between thousands of peoples. This has limited the spread of the Gospel throughout the world. These barriers cannot be ignored. In fact, the ministry of reconciliation may be the missing…
How Can All Peoples Be Reached By The Year 2000?
…This year we celebrated 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…
Editorial Comment
…What does the AD2000 and Beyond Movement have to do with the Return of Christ? How about you? Do you (honestly) think very often about the end of history? What if history might come to an end while you are still alive? Or before we elect another president? Or before…
Tell Me More About this AD2000 Global “Mobilizing New Missionaries” Network.
…We present here an interview with Pari Rickard, the Coordinator for this network. We believe that the mobilizing of new missionaries is essential to the overall success in reaching the AD2000 goal of a Church for every people by the year 2000. We hope that you will pray for them…
India’s Mission Leaders Speak to the Western Church Part Two
…We gathered together seven influential Indian church and mission leaders and asked them five questions relating to Western involvement in reaching India. We presented their edited responses to the first three questions the last issue. We present here their responses to the second two questions. The leaders we contacted were:…
Partnership: God’s mandate for success
…A few years ago, just before the Deepavali festival, I read a news item in the Indian Express. It was about an agreement reached by cinema film distributors. They had agreed about when each one would release his new film for festival, where it would be screened, for how much,…
Did Christianity’s mission in India take a wrong turn?
…What has kept missions to India from reaching more of Inida? Could it be that missions to India got sidetracked into running institutions instead of preaching the Gospel? Indian Christianity expresses herself through her institutional forms perhaps more than any other place in the world. Numerous historic, religious and social…
Formed in the Womb
…Vinoo gently touched her swollen abdomen. "I don't want any girls," she remembered her husband saying. They had taken money from their meager savings to have a costly ultrasound taken of the unborn child in order to determine its gender. "It shows a female," the physician told them. Vinoo's husband…
Commitment to a Wartime Lifestyle
…The Queen Mary, lying in repose in the harbor at Long Beach, California, is a fascinating museum of the past. Used both as a luxury liner in peacetime and a troop transport during the Second World War, its present status as a museum the length of three football fields affords…