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The AD2000 and Beyond Movement Launches Joshua Project 2000 in Global Gathering
…With a solid commitment to the goal of a church for every people by the year 2000, two hundred sixty-two Christian leaders representing 140 mission agencies, denominations and educational centers in 77 countries met in Colorado Springs on November 28, 1995 to consider the future thrust of pioneer missionary outreach…
The Mission Training Division
…[I know it is confusing for training and education to be conducted by both our Mobilization Division and our Training Division. Why? If you want credit, a degree, things are much more complicated--and that's the Training Division's domain.]Mission Frontiers: Dr. Winter, is it true that the Mission Training Division is…
The Personnel Dept. The US Center is Changing the World by Bruce Koch
…Is it possible that after 1300 years there has been almost no significant successful witness to the now almost 800 million Muslim people? ... not a speck of yellow!" These thoughts haunted me as I lay on my dorm room bed in college staring at the "Hidden Peoples Pie Chart…
Mobilization Division: Five Promising Years 1996-2000
…With the Lord's help we could be seeing a significant increase in the number of Boomers and Busters who are catching a vision for world evangelization. An Interview with David Imboden, the director of the Mobilization Division at the US Center Welcome to the USCWM’s Mobilization Division—a division encompassing everything…
The U.S. Center for World Mission… Charting a New Course?
…With the unreached peoples vision gaining sharper focus and God's servants grasping that vision in ever-increasing numbers, each of us must reevaluate our role and that of those we serve. There are now new "players" on the scene that could only be dreamed of years ago. In every area of…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Friends: The following version of Dr. Winter's latest editorial includes many references to charts and graphs that we are unable to transmit electronically. If these charts and graphs would be helpful, please contact us and we will be happy to send you a copy of the printed version. A…
Joshua Project 2000 Step 7: Finding Your Role
…Joshua Project 2000 May Change Your Life Ten years ago my college Christian fellowship attended a presentation on frontier missions by Caleb Resources. At the end of the presentation, I filled out a response card saying that I wanted to be a missionary and would do everything I could to…
Joshua Project 2000 Step 3: Researching on Site & Preparing the Way for Church Planting
…The Starting Point for Research Teams In envisioning a church for every people, it became evident there was need for agreement on a common "starting point" to see church- planting movements move toward reality. In answer to that need, an integrated list of approximately 2,000 significant peoples has been compiled…
Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse Gets New Director
…The Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse in Colorado Springs has announced that Keith Butler, former US Director for Frontiers, a mission agency focused on reaching muslims, has accepted the position of executive director for the Clearinghouse. The Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse which works to collect information on the unreached peoples and who is working to…
The Story of the Frontier Mission Movement
…Chapter One: Where the Idea Began The GCOWE '95 meeting in Korea shoulders a very significant burden. Is it part of a discernible movement to the final frontiers? What other meetings have had that burden? What does this movement look like? William Carey, 1810 In India for more than a…
Mobilizing GCOWE’s 200,000 New Missionaries
…From Ben's GCOWE Journal: It's day three in Seoul at the Global Consultation on World Evangelization. One form of sleep deprivation (jet lag) has been substituted for another (long hours). Today is a transition as we move from opening plenary sessions to working meetings. Approximately 300 of us from over…
The Declaration of the Global Consultation on World Evangelization 1995 (GCOWE ‘95)
…Our Foundation We, about 4000 Christians from 186 countries, were graciously hosted by the churches of Korea in Seoul, May 17-25, 1995, for a Global Consultation on World Evangelization. We continue the spirit of earlier consultations committed to the task of global evangelization. Building upon the biblical foundation and call…
What Do These People Have in Common? by Art McCleary
…Lloyd and Naomi left Central California and lived in Turkey for two years in order to be surrogate grandparents to children of missionaries. Because they are retired school teachers, they also taught the children in their home part of the time. Their visitor visas required them to leave the country…
A Passion for the Unreached Peoples
…First I want to share my convictions concerning unreached peoples: When the Lord Jesus Christ gave us the commission to make disciples of all peoples (Matt 28:19), he gave us a measurable and finishable task. We are therefore obligated to both research the need, however complex, and to seek to…
Are 90% of Our Missionaries Serving in the Wrong Places?
…Presented at the 1991 annual meeting of the Evangelical Missiological Society In the past two centuries, due to the widespread success of evangelical mission agencies--virtually everywhere they have worked around the world--an enormous overseas church movement has resulted which is now the apple of the eye of both the mission…
The Story of a People Movement to Christ
…This is a story written by Dr. Donald McGavran in 1937 and published in a very scarce book, The Founders of the Indian Church. The story presented here is true and as applicable to our mission strategies today as it was in 1937. --Rick Wood The Story of Ditt There…
The Unfinished Task It Can Be Done By AD 2000
…Today, nearly two thousand years after Christ challenged his disciples with the Great Commission, the Church which bears His name approaches a milestone many had only dreamed of reaching. A goal which has ignited the hearts of missionaries for centuries now stands within sight. That goal? "A church for every…
Dr. David Hesselgrave on the World Christian Foundations
…Dr. David Hesselgrave, Dean of American Missiologists, the just-retiring Executive Director of the Evangelical Missiological Society (in a new book, Scripture and Strategy), describes the World Christian Foundations Curriculum now being offered by accredited institutions on both upper division and graduate level. [Beginning in the middle of Chapter Ten, on…
A Mission Agency Born in India: The FMPB
…A mission society unmatched the world over for sacrificial giving and dedicated prayer. --Ralph Winter Driven from his village when he became afflicted with leprosy, the Malto witch doctor huddled forlornly in a rocky enclosure some miles from his family and friends. He felt shame at his condition,which had caused…
Exciting Reports from Pre-GCOWE
…Bible Translations Two hundred years ago only 66 languages in the world had any portion of Bible translation. One hundred years later, that had grown to 400. Now more than 2,000 languages have some portion of Scripture. Every year, 31 Scripture portions, 24 New Testaments and 5 full Bibles are…