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Tokyo 2010’s New Technology Vision
…Imagine a place where intercessors, adopting churches, Christian businesses, mission agencies and funding partners can form global alliances to reach the world’s remaining unreached and unengaged peoples. Or imagine a forum where experts in technology can hear from field missionaries what their needs are and custom-design solutions for them. Or…
Reaching Peoples
…Dear Reader, In 1974, Dr. Ralph Winter changed the course of mission history and world history with his address to the first Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, where he revealed that we would never complete the task of world evangelization if we continued with the same strategies and methods. Dr.…
Is God Colorblind or Colorful?
…Isabell Ides was 101 years old when she died last June. A Makah Indian, a member of a whale-hunting people, she lived in the last house on the last road on the farthest northwest tip of the United States. Isabell was known far and wide because she loved and taught…
Lifting, Pushing, Squeezing and Blending
…An emphasis on “people groups” has become a common way to map our mission to the world. It was not always so. When Donald McGavran emerged from caste-ridden India in the 1960s, evangelicals were confronted anew with the strategic role of social and cultural boundaries in world evangelization. The persistent…
Are Muslims the New Nazis?
…Recently I heard a comedian suggest that “brown is the new black”, that brown people (aka those of Middle Eastern/Asian descent) now receive the abuse, discrimination and suspicion that black people faced in the past. While he was speaking largely of the North American experience, I wonder if in a…
Tea With Hezbollah
…So, what is it like to love an enemy? What are our so-called enemies really like, one on one? What are their favorite movies? When was the last time they cried? What is their favorite joke? If we could only take People magazine-like snapshots of the very people who make…
Who Are These People?
…From May 2008 to June 2009 I had the privilege of working with the international team that produced the Atlas of Global Christianity. Editors Todd Johnson and Kenneth Ross assembled this team and did a remarkable job of shepherding the Atlas to completion by the autumn of 2009. As this…
Jesus is Worthy
…The following is excerpted, with permission, from There's a Sheep in My Bathtub: Birth of a Mongolian Church Planting Movement, by Brian Hogan (Asteroidea Books, 2008). Learn more at www.AsteroideaBooks.com The Letter The sun defied all my expectations and came up that Christmas morning. Just 24 hours earlier we had…
Resources for Students and Student Mobilizers
…Opportunities in the USA Perspectives is not so much a course as it is a movement involving tens of thousands of God’s people throughout the world finding their niche in God’s overall purpose to bless the nations. In 15 lessons you’ll engage with a range of dynamic speakers. Weekly readings…
Valley of Vision
…In the valley of vision are the hearts, minds, and future of a generation. Every generation is faced with a valley of vision. Every generation is faced with a valley of decision. The struggle of leadership for each generation of a culture is a struggle for vision. The writer of…
His Kingdom Come
…What are we supposed to be doing among the nations? In many ways, the last ten years of Dr. Winter’s life was focused on this issue. Having spent three decades getting the church refocused on the final frontiers, he felt that the most productive use of his time in the…
The Power of a Biblical Worldview
…“I wouldn’t say I follow a particular religion, but I do consider myself a spiritual man,” answered the car salesman in response to my question concerning his faith background. As I inquired and listened, he explained his self-concept as a spiritually-minded person, desiring to do what is good, right and…
Helping Students “Get It”
…In my previous article, I argued that a major project for those of us who work with students is to help them “get” Christianity. While a significant number of Christian students reject Christianity during their university years, far more struggle to embrace a faith that is not really authentic or…
YWAM’s Transformation
…“We’re a mission organization that is traditional in every sense,” declared Loren Cunningham in a television special celebrating the birth of YWAM. Cunningham was attempting to paint Youth With A Mission—which he had started nineteen years earlier—as a credible Christian ministry. However, his mission was anything but traditional, as its…
A Fundamental Change Needed in Missions Education
…Ralph Winter believed that ministerial schools both at home and abroad tend to go wrong in three ways. First, they attract the wrong students. Second, they offer the wrong curriculum. Third, they present their course work and diplomas in the wrong package. He saw that the real leaders, the gifted…
Ralph Winter & the American Society of Missiology
…Ralph Winter undertook many strategic initiatives during his eventful life. One of these was the founding of the American Society of Missiology. By the 1960s, mission studies in North America were in transition. Mainline Protestant missions were declining as was mission studies in their seminaries. Evangelicals had depended on Bible…
A Timely and Providentially Guided Transition
…On May 5, 2009, just two weeks before he went to be with the Lord, Ralph D. Winter, Founder and General Director of the Frontier Mission Fellowship (FMF), named his successor. The Frontier Mission Fellowship is the evangelical missionary order which oversees and staffs such projects as the U.S. Center…
Economic Crisis Reminder
…During economic “crisis,” or any crisis, believers should be the calm ones. Jesus said, Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or your body, what you should wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than…
Skills For the Task
…“Whatever skills you have, you will use them on the mission field.” I can’t remember when I first heard that but it was probably 30 years ago—and from a field missionary. At the time, I thought about using my skills in photography, or stained glass or in keeping old cars…
Mission Cooperation Goes Global
…For this special issue of Mission Frontiers, we talked to Dr. Yong Cho, international director of the Global Network of Mission Structures (GNMS) about his role and vision for this new world-level initiative. For our readers, we have included some excerpts from that recent interview below. MF: Dr. Cho, you…