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Friday, April 7, 1995 A Church for Every People and the Gospel for Every Person by the Year 2000! --How can anyone guarantee that this WILL happen? --How can anyone guarantee that this WON'T...

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Behind the Scenes

MF Marches off to Seoul

Mission Frontiers and I are on our way to Seoul, South Korea for GCOWE '95 which runs from May 17-26th. This could be the most important gathering of Christian leaders in the history of the Church....

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Definitions: Key Terms In This Issue of MF Other

Definitions: Key Terms In This Issue of MF

In introducing the key terms below for the concept of Unreached Peoples, it is necessary to understand that the primary definition is the concept of "reaching" a group by means of planting a church...

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“A Church-Planting Movement” Within Every People: The key to reaching every people and every person Other

“A Church-Planting Movement” Within Every People: The key to reaching every people and every person

Where are we headed? Which way to the front? Where should the mission world be headed and what should its chief objective be? The AD2000 and Beyond Movement has as its agreed-upon goal "A Church...

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The Story of a People Movement to Christ Feature

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...

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Once for all… What is an Unreached People Group? Feature

Once for all… What is an Unreached People Group?

(and why is everyone getting interested in this idea?)

Let's start with the very basis of the concept--it is a fascinating story. Landing at an airport, whole square blocks and buildings suddenly jump into focus. Details not visible before become clear...

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Which Missionary Is Doing The MOST Strategic Work? You Choose: Feature

Which Missionary Is Doing The MOST Strategic Work? You Choose:

Are all mission activities equally strategic? Here are some tests for your mission judgment!

MISSIONARY A: This missionary is working "overseas" (is that important?) with a strong, indigenous church--the result of 80 years of fine missionary effort--helping an existing church movement to...

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Is One Kind Of Mission Work More Important Than Another? Feature

Is One Kind Of Mission Work More Important Than Another?

No! Yes! No! Yes! How Can We Decide?

"Our mission committee can't agree on priorities." "Our money must go for direct evangelism or count me out." "We can't support people who are not overseas." "France is just as important as Asia."...

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Are 90% of Our Missionaries Serving in the Wrong Places? Feature

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...

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Adopt-A-People A way to love the missionaries and the people they work with Other

Adopt-A-People A way to love the missionaries and the people they work with

ADOPT-A-PEOPLE A Mission Strategy Adopt-A-People is a mission strategy that is gaining momentum in mission agencies and churches worldwide. What makes this strategy different is its focus....

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How Can All Peoples Be Reached By The Year 2000? Feature

How Can All Peoples Be Reached By The Year 2000?

Excerpted from an Address to the International Society for Frontier Missiology Kansas City, Missouri, Sept 17-19, 1992

This year we celebrated the bicentenary of William Carey who is known as the father of modern day missions. Carey arrived in India in 1792. One hundred years later A.T. Pierson made the statement:...

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Helping Grass-roots Leaders to Build and Manage an Effective Ministry Other

Helping Grass-roots Leaders to Build and Manage an Effective Ministry

The Task Force for Strategy and Resource Development: AD2000 & Beyond

Reuben Ezemadu, Chairperson

James Engel and Jane Overstreet, Co-Coordinators

The Task Force on Strategy and Resource Development has an interesting mandate and history. In this article, Jane...

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A Passion for the Unreached Peoples Feature

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...

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