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Today’s Mission Fields:
…Editor’s Note: The mobility of modern times transforms missions into a motion picture, making many peoples more reachable—if we can shift gears strategically in order to reach them. In the past missionaries usually felt called to a particular people living in a specific geographical location. The pioneer missionary often went…
The Forgotten Island
…What would happen if someone on your island decided to become a Christian?” The young man seated before me on the gently swaying deck laughed. I pressed it further: “What would the other islanders do to him?” Gradually the smile faded from his face. “It would not be tolerated.” “Has…
Prophecy At Manila
…In 1974 at Lausanne I, it was made clear to the church that there were over two billion people in thousands of unreached groups that had no witnessing church among them. A strong mandate was given by the Lord to His church to complete the task of world evangelization. In…
The World Evangelized by 2000— But At What Cost?
…We can rightly be encouraged about the present expansion of the Kingdom of God in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Never has the world seen the likes. This is especially true for Evangelical/ Pentecostal/Charismatic streams of Christianity. For the first time in history there is now a possibility that in…
Cooperation in Evangelism and the Lausanne Covenant
…The 1974 Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization rallied evangelicals around the world to take new initiatives in both evangelism and missions. (One such initiative was the founding of the U.S. Center for World Mission in 1976.) Now, as Christian leaders look back on the fifteen years since this landmark congress…
World Evangelism
…Used by permission One word says it aII for 30 years of North American foreign mission agencies: staggering, surprising growth. The economic prosperity of American churches (and American society generally), religious freedom, and the entrepreneurial spirit have all coalesced to give birth to more agencies than these have ever been.…
Editorial Comment
…Lest We Take Credit Dear Friend, This is a special issue of MISSION FRONTIERS part of the wonderful help of a single donor in Chicago who has funded the Last $1,000 campaign. Outside workers have developed much of this particular issue. I have had very little to do with it.…
Letters
…There is a Battle Out There! Editor, (Enclosed) is a letter I received regarding my former classmate in the Faith School of World Mission (Tacoma, WA). Two days after I received it, the Mission Frontiers magazine (April 1986) arrived in the mail and I read your article, "Spiritual Warfare." Truly,…
The First Thousand Recruits, The Last Thousand Dollars
…With all due humility, I really believe we and many others have worked at the FIRST THING FIRST: the first thousand frontier missionaries that's already done and now the Last Thousand dollars to secure this campus. That, we pray, is only a few months away. l am deeply indebted to…
AIMS Takes Aim
…Jim Ammerinan, head of Full Gospel Chaplaincy, a man whose research has been recognized by the Pentagon for apportioning chaplains in the armed forces, says there are SO. to 100,000 charismatic congregations in the United States. The Association of International Mission Services (AIMS) conservatively places the figure at 60,000. Created…
News
…Student Mobilization Teams: Low Cost Recruitment for the Front Lines In the last three months of 1985, representatives from Frontiers, Inc., TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission), and Caleb Project were able to meet with 8.500 students, 550 of them in one on one contexts, in order to demonstrate to them…
Staff Make Contribution at Summer Project
…Participants in Campus Crusade's International Student Leadership Project at UCLA this past summer say that, thanks in pan to the resources and help of several staff members from the U.S. Center for World Mission, by the end of the Project three fourths of the participants had made solid commitments to…
News
…Church Growth in India Emil Jebasiogh, executive dimctor of Vishva Wani ("Voice to the Universe"), Trans World Radio¬India, spoke at the U.S. Center's Frontier Fellowship recently. His key point: though Western missionaries have had a difficult time obtaining visas into India, God is working, churches are being established, and the…
The “Last $1000” Campaign
…"You are on the right track let's get it paid off. God made this extra ($1000) possible and we want God's blessing for you!" San Clemente, CA "GREAT! Them seems to be good integrity and wisdom in this plan." Christiana, PA "Your last bulletin touched my heart. This is not…
Show Me A Closed Door, and I’ll Show You an Open Window
…Getting locked out of the house means checking other means of entry, right? Its the same way in missions.Any serious follower of Jesus Christ realizes that he or she is not left on this each merely to survive; God has a job for each to do! Our Lord commanded us…
An Open Letter to Those Willing to Adopt A Missionary Lifestyle
…"Try It, You'll Like It" You can see from the figures that 27 people firm all over the United States (and the world) have made a valiant start in the lifestyle proposal we cautiously introduced in the last two issues of Mission Frontiers. I believe we are witnessing seeing before…
Feeding the Hungry
…Born in Japan just prior ID this outbreak of World War II, Dr. Tetsunao "Ted" Yamamori has experienced hunger firsthand. 'AL age seven,! came out of World Waril half dead because of extreme," he says. 'The doctor informed my parents that I was too far gone. 'The war tom city…
What’s Happening Around the World
…Tentmaking Missions: Using the International Job Market for the Glory of Christ Richard Matthews, a former missionary to Korea. tells of asking his four year old son what he wanted for his birthday."1 want a wallet!" said his son. "A wallet? Why would you want a wallet?" Mr. Matthew asked.…
Latin American Leaders Plan World Missions Thrust
…In December 1984 the first steps were taken for a continent wide Latin American missions congress to beheld in 1987. Luis Bush. Latin American coordinator for CHRISTIAN NATIONALS EVANGELISM COMMISSION, was appointed president of the coordinating committee at the first planning session held in Mexico City. Called by CONELA (Confratemidad…
Six Missionaries Become College President
…Missions Invades the Colleges! What an arresting fact that these six outstanding colleges have recognized the crucial worth of choosing as their presidents men who have a profound international grasp of the global Christian mission. (We know there are others; we'd be glad to hear about those of which you're…