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Student Debt
… The Maasai herdsman stands on a hill with a missionary colleague. A cell phone rings. The missionary instinctively reaches for his phone, but there’s no call. Looking up, he hears his Maasai friend taking the call. Curious, the missionary asks about the conversation. The Maasai brother replies, “I knew to…
Sending Down Deep Roots
…As we reflect in this issue of Mission Frontiers on how the gospel can take root in different cultures, recent events in Iraq give us ample opportunity to consider various methods of outreach. Most of us have heard about the deaths of aid workers in Iraq who, it turned out,…
A Missionary Speaks Out on Science/Faith Conflicts
…This excerpt is taken from Chapter Six, the first chapter of Part II, “Applications of Missionary Principles” of a soon-to-be-published book, The Missionary Approach to Science/Faith Conflicts. The full chapter can be found in issue 20:4 (Winter 2003) of the International Journal of Frontier Missions. In 1954 Bernard Ramm spoke…
Why Meetings of Mission Leaders?
…As I write, I’m sitting at a meeting of mission leaders, administrators, professors and a few others. This is the second of two similar fall meetings, which are sometimes combined as they’ll be next September 23-25 in St Louis. Why do they meet? I’m sure there are many reasons—depending on…
An Initial Response to TIME
…Darrell Dorr Despite some errors of commission or omission, David Van Biema and his colleagues at TIME are to be commended for their attempt to fairly portray evangelical mission initiatives among Muslims. We thank TIME for their attempt to present different sides of the issues and to protect the safety…
One Perspective from India
…The TIME cover story tells us what many Americans think about missions. People in India may have much more critical views. In the July 12 issue of the Economic and Political Weekly (www.epw.org.in, an Indian type of the Wall Street Journal), after apologizing for even bothering to read so biased…
CRAF 2002: Francophone Africa Regional Consultation — One Participant’s View
…What if we spent a few days in Grand Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire this May?” My wife, a Congo MK, was curious. "Sure . . . what’s in Bassam?" "Well, since 1998 people from across Africa have been coming to these five day CRAF gatherings. They’re mostly from Francophone Africa, so…
The World Inquiry
…For several years from the late 1980s to the end of the year 2000, thousands of faithful believers spared no effort in attempting to reach the goal of “A Church for Every People and the Gospel for Every Person.” This vision was the driving force behind the AD2000 Movement. As…
Transformation and Leadership
…The “Evangelizing our World Inquiry” seeks to “enhance world evangelisation in the 21st century by . . . using a survey and focus group consultative process to gather, compile, organize and communicate the insights of Christian leaders throughout the world.”1 Luis Bush has noted that the Inquiry is “a ‘listening…
An Introduction to a Call That Didn’t Work
…After many startling and unusual accomplishments in America, Scotland and England, D.L. Moody consented to hosting the annual Northfield Conferences, held right in the little town of his birth in Western Massachusetts. Thousands attended. The third year this conference was held, in 1885, the theme of missions came up and…
The First Call
…The following is from A History of Christianity by Kenneth Scott Latourette, pp. 1343-1345 (Harper & Brothers, 1953). The most notable in the succession of the international, inter-denominational assemblies was the World Missionary Conference, held in Edinburgh in 1910. It became a landmark in the history of the Ecumenical Movement,…
The Case for a Global Inter-Missions Network
…Editor’s Note In my perspective, two keen people stand out at the global level today as the most influential in the cause of missions: Patrick Johnstone, through his various books, especially Operation World, and Luis Bush, through his brilliant initiatives in the AD2000 movement and now his follow through country-level…
Presenting Ourselves to the World
…With the “loss of innocence” in the West since September 11, those who work in almost any part of the world realize things are different. Even if things haven’t changed much, they easily could. While many in the States go on now as if nothing has changed—and wish inside that…
Still Two Structures
…Some of church history’s greatest pioneers—Samuel Zwemer, Mother Teresa, William Carey—did not wait to get permission before they started new mission structures. They began, attracted others to the task, and only subsequently were they honored for their leadership. Samuel Zwemer, the first American missionary to Arabia, was told by the…
Debt and Training
…When we think of training on a global level and its impact in various situations around our globe, we may not often think of debt. After all, many of the schools around the world are funded by money that flows from the West (or East!). Unfortunately, external funding is a…
What’s Wrong with 4,000 Pastoral Training Schools Worldwide?
…There are three drastic drawbacks pervasively embodied in pastoral training both at home and abroad. These are so serious that it is sad yet fair to say that the seminaries and Bible schools of the world are actually a surprisingly weak and often negative contributor to the growth of Christianity…
Christian Universities as a Mission Strategy
…In the mid-19th century, a Scottish crofter’s son named Alexander Duff made the case for Christian higher education as a means of evangelization in India. Timothy Richard, a Welsh Baptist converted during the revival of 1858-60, made a similar case for missions in China. During the next hundred years, Christian…
The Next Christendom by Philip Jenkins
…Reviewed by Ralph D. Winter This is a book “out of the blue,” so to speak. Philip Jenkins is not well-known in mission circles. As a professor in a secular university (University of Pennsylvania), he would not be expected to be concerned with the global advance of Christianity, certainly not…
Singapore ‘02
…It is more and more difficult to effectively coordinate mission efforts among unreached peoples. With missionaries now coming from the same countries where other nations are sending them, the complexities are staggering. Without even considering the additional complications of current global events, the logistics are daunting— trying to keep from…
Music, Millenials, and Mission Mobilization
…“Give me the music of a nation, and I will change the mind of that nation.” -- Plato “There is a whole generation that the church has lost – the sight and sound generation. MTV has captured them, but the church hasn’t.” -- Ed Basler, founder of Souled Out Some…