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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…
The Pastor and Modern Missions-A Plea for Leadership in World Evangelization
…Will lack of home church support be the Achilles' heel in the push for "A Church for Every People by the Year 2000"? What is the key to gaining local church backing for new ventures and existing mission work that is spawning Two-Thirds World missionaries? Take another look at the…
Why Stay Here? Mobilizing the Home Front
…Mission mobilization is a strategic new category that churches are increasingly recognizing as key to their global outreach. It may not be in your church's missions policy… yet, but it is becoming more and more understood by alert missions thinkers and strategizers. Greg Parsons, who has been on staff with…
A Church for Every People and the Gospel for Every Person by AD2000 in India
…God is doing tremendous things toward the realization of the vision of the AD2000 & Beyond Movement in India. Here is a brief overview of some of what God has been doing to reach every people group in India: April 1987 saw the first Consultation on National Strategy (abbreviated as…
What Wesley Practiced and Preached About Money
…Most of us know that John Wesley was used of God to revive 18th-century England and to start the Methodist Church. We know him as a great preacher and a greater organizer. But few of us realize that Wesley made enormous sums from preaching--the sale of his writings made him…
Do “Native Missionaries” Exist?
…The word "native" is not welcome in many places. They say if you refer to a white man from South Africa as "a native of South Africa" you may pick a fight. However, I call myself "a native Californian,"-- scarce as such people are in California--and I was still a…
The Tarahumara Penetrating a People Through Prayer and Adoption
…"God versus Satan! The Tarahumara people had the contestants right, but little else! According to one of their legends, Satan is God's older brother. One day the two decided to create human beings. But God's creation was darker than the devil's; these were the Tarahumara people of Mexico. The whites…
The Spirit of God is Moving in the South Pacific
…Introduction Jesus said: "The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit" John 3:8 (NIV). And so it is when the Spirit of God is moving somewhere.…
The Day that Changed the World On the Day of History’s Largest Prayer Meeting
…Introduction As a boy I used to love to read the the Adventures of Superman comics. The phrase repeated over and over again that has lodged in my memory ever since was the words that people would say as they saw a swish through the sky: "Is it a bird?…
The Non-Essentials of Life
…Scene 1: Summer 1951 (It was our second date. Ralph and I were sitting on the grass close to the Rose Bowl, getting acquainted. We had first met just two weeks before.) I want you to know I'm a rather . . . uh . . . radical person," Ralph…
Bring Back The King!
…This vision of Dr. A.B. Simpson launched a missionary movement that changed the world. It can change our world too. The Master’s coming draweth near. The Son of Man will soon appear, His Kingdom is at hand. But ere that glorious day can be, The Gospel of the Kingdom, we…
A Missionary Perspective on the Family as it exists (or used to exist) in the USA
…Tomorrow we go on our annual staff retreat, this time to the Forest Home Conference center near Redlands. Our study book this time is The Promise, by Philip Rosenbaum, which is an honest, probing, even wrenching study of how the Bible expects parents and children to relate, tracing all kinds…
The Picuris Pueblo An Unreached People Group in America
…How could there be an unreached people group in the USA? Can't they turn on the TV and radio to listen to the gospel? Haven't they met Christians in a shopping mall? Common questions. Reasonable questions. A people is considered "unreached" until there is a culturally relevant church movement capable…
Speaking from the Heart: An interview with a Native American who shares frankly about life as a Chri
…MF: Share with us a little about your background and how you came to know the Lord. FAITH: My name is Faith Mexicano and I am a Native American from the Navajo tribe in Arizona. I grew up on the reservation in a Christian home. My relatives on my mother's…
Native American Peoples
…Christine had seven children. Their father had died years before, leaving her as a young widow to rear them alone. She did what she could, but with two social liabilities: she was a single mom and she was an Indian. When we met her, five of her children were grown…
Native Americans Seek their True Creator
…After talking with an Indian woman about the Jesus Way, she could not understand that we did not include in our Indian Fellowship some of the Indian spiritual ceremonies to the Creator. Some Indians want a Jesus that will liberate them from the oppression they feel from the white man…
Brazil, A Sleeping Giant Awakens
…Introduction Brazil, is known as the largest Catholic country in the world, but it is also where more people attend evangelical churches than Catholic on any given Sunday. Brazil has become the third largest evangelical community in the world. Perhaps in no other country of the world has the evangelical…
Mission Mobilization Resource Network - AD2000
…Could a significant increase in the number of mission-active and frontier-mission oriented churches as well as a corresponding increase of prayer, finances and personnel be on its way? Read on and see what good things have been developing behind the scenes this past year and what looks like the beginning…
Wildfire Threatens US Center Campus
…Many of you have seen the flames burning in Southern California on your TV sets at home. But for us here at the US Center, it became a very personal story. On October 27, 1993, those living near the campus of the US Center awoke to the strong smell of…
Fresh News From The Center
…MA Program Inquiries and Notes From "Down Under": "I will be happy to serve as a mentor for anyone in Tasmania, Australia who wishes to enroll for the program. There could well be many students in our own college who find the course desirable." "Congratulations on the excellent materials you…