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Four Decisive Moves Forward
…1. List of 6,000 Peoples 2. Peoples Info. Network 3. Registry of Peoples 4. Adopt-A-People Consultation II EDITORIAL COMMENT: This article announces four major moves forward. Jansen, a Norwegian businessman, is Director of the Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse in Colorado Springs. With the help of the AD2000 Movement, a large number of…
A Large “Mystery Church” Adopts-A-People
…This is the story of the impact one individual and a large church can make when they seriously set their hearts and minds on the task of reaching the unreached. This is not to say that everything this church has done should or could be copied by other churches. This…
School Loan Debts Snag Mission Candidates
…Rising tuition and easy loans send students into debt--- and away from the mission field! Mike Pollard is typical of an unknown number of students with a desire to serve on the mission field ö and a college debt standing in the way. Pollard was on his own paying for…
I Will Do a New Thing
…Roberta Winter in her books Once More Around Jericho and Will Do A New Thing has captured the amazing moving of God to establish this center for world mission. The following new excerpt brings us up-to-date. (Share the vision with friends: Order several copies of I Will Do A New…
IMPACT & ACTION! Getting a Running Start on the 90s
…The 1990s are upon us. A whole new decade. Just years away now from the unsettling prospect of a new century, a new millenium. Just a few years from the perfectly plausible goal of planting a church in every people group by the year 2000. But finishing the task of…
Unreached Peoples
…Amazing developments have taken place in the last 15 years since the first Lausanne congress in Switzerland, in 1974. We have begun to see, for example, that we cannot merely focus upon the winning of individuals, but must, even before that, unlock the cultural puzzle of the group to which…
My Turn looking back at six “lost months”
…One thing that has kept us going is our amazement, everywhere we go, at the new upsurge of interest in the Hidden Peoples. What we have prayed and worked for so long is at last beginning to happen. Let me give a few examples: Unreached (Hidden) Peoples emphasis is now…
Haystack Harvest from The Unfinished Task
…John Kyle, Director of IV Missions and of the Urbana '84 program, is a man of many talents. He was the branch manager of Wyclrffe's work in the Philippines for many years, then returned to the States to help the newly organiredPres bvterian Church in America establish its mission board.…
Kingdom Kernels: Quick Guide to Solving Generational Hurdles
…One of the tragedies of civilizations is when they degenerate in ways that forget and lose the skills of art forms and technologies of previous civilization. The Dark Ages are called “dark” in one sense because of the loss of many of skill sets intrinsic to the glories of Rome.…
Finding “Fourth Soil” People: Pursuing Movements as Jesus Did
…Overview Mathematician Steven Pither describes the difference between addition and multiplication through the use of personification. Addition’s attempt to solve problems can be described as passive, lacking a drive to a goal, ill-prepared to overcome obstacles, and lacking enthusiasm to attain a highly valued purpose. Pither describes multiplication as having…
Christian Students Grow the Kingdom of God in China
…Editor’s note: As missiologists and mission professionals develop 21st century strategies for church planting and disciple-making movements around the world, we have to simultaneously keep an eye on what God has done in the past. His past work, in this case amongst Chinese students who studied in the USA over…
Kingdom Kernels
…In a remote valley in a restricted access nation, I gathered with my Ina partners as we discussed how to reach the 1.4 million Ina people. I had taught them repeatedly that the only way to reach all 5,000 villages was through a kingdom movement in which Ina people were…
Living and Discipling in the Hindu World
…My name is Ventakesh and my home is India. I was brought up in a strict, high caste Hindu family, and we had our own pooja room where we had daily prayers to the Hindu gods. We maintained all the Hindu festivals and were very diligent to fulfill all the…
Discipling the Nations and The Insider Movement Conversation
…This issue of Mission Frontiers is devoted to keeping the attention of mission practitioners focused squarely on disciple-making. I welcome the opportunity to address discipleship from the perspective of the so-called “insider” paradigm. I am not going to describe a strategy for multiplying disciples and disciple-makers. I have two far…
Family Tributes
…Just My Dad Beth Gill To me he was just my dad. Not a missiologist. Not a professor. Not a missionary nor a minister. Just the loving daddy who would scoop us up in his arms, take us individually on his trips up into the Mayan villages in the mountains…
The Future of Evangelicals in Mission
…bartered during four centuries before slavery was (supposedly) “abolished” by Wilberforce. Does that apply to the lifting of the burden of 45 million man-years of labor annually destroyed in Africa alone due to the malarial parasite? It has been said that because the gospel is a message of hope, the…
Unveiling God
…Editor’s note: this article is excerpted from Unveiling God: Contextualizing Christology for Islamic Culture (William Carey Library, 2005). To obtain a copy of this book and to learn the framework behind the confessional recitation reproduced here, go to www.missionbooks.org. A christology must have a concrete form if it is to…
The Global Status of Evangelical Christianity
…Editor's note: the following article constitutes part 3 in our occasional series on Which Peoples Need Priority Attention? Dan Scribner (of Joshua Project) took the lead in part 1 (in our November-December 2004 issue), while Todd Johnson (of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity) took the baton for…
Mission Leaders Critique the “World Christian Global Action Plan”
…Helps to crystallize thinking and channel efforts I believe that initiatives like the “World Global Christian Action Plan” help to crystallize the thinking of the global Christian community with regard to the un.nished task and serve to channel our combined efforts for maximum effect. Furthermore, practitioners in the .eld bene.t…
The Continuing Advance of Christian Faith
…Excerpted from the concluding chapter of World Christianity: 1970-2000 In his seven-volume master work, A History of the Expansion of Christianity, and in his other books reflecting the same research, Kenneth Scott Latourette described alternating periods of advance and retreat by the Christian faith. His analysis made use of four…