GCOWE 1995

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Editorial Comment Editorial

Editorial Comment

Monday, July 3, 1995

It is not remotely possible to convey to our readers in a few pages just what happened in the most important global meeting in history-- GCOWE '95, with 4,000 key leaders in...

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Behind the Scenes

A Little Bit of Heaven

The 4,000 delegates to GCOWE '95, from 186 countries, have now come down from their mountain-top experience in Seoul, Korea. They have returned to their home countries with a small taste of what...

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Edinburgh ’80: The Roots of a Movement Feature

Edinburgh ’80: The Roots of a Movement

Over lunch at GCOWE '95, Patrick Johnstone recalls how the AD2000 vision was birthed: ,"In 1980, the World Consultation on Frontier Missions (better known as Edinburgh '80) convened the most...

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The Declaration of the Global Consultation on World Evangelization 1995 (GCOWE ‘95) Feature

The Declaration of the Global Consultation on World Evangelization 1995 (GCOWE ‘95)

The AD2000 and Beyond Movement May 25,1995

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...

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GCOWE ’95 A Major Step Forward in Building a Movement to the Frontiers Feature

GCOWE ’95 A Major Step Forward in Building a Movement to the Frontiers

Relentlessly the participants had planned, organized, prayed and sacrificed for years to bring about this global event. Hundreds of volunteers invested thousands of hours of labor to make it a...

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Mobilizing GCOWE’s 200,000 New Missionaries Feature

Mobilizing GCOWE’s 200,000 New Missionaries

Training Implications Adopting a "Secular" Model from Our Backyard to Reach the Frontiers

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...

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Reconciliation Is It the Missing Key to Revival And World Evangelization? Feature

Reconciliation Is It the Missing Key to Revival And World Evangelization?

Whether it be between Native Americans and White Americans or Armenians and Turks, past sins have placed barriers to witnessing between thousands of peoples. This has limited the spread of the...

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George Verwer Speaks Out On GCOWE ‘95 The Global Consultation on World Evangelization Feature

George Verwer Speaks Out On GCOWE ‘95 The Global Consultation on World Evangelization

George Verwer, the founder of Operation Mobilization, was a delegate at GCOWE '95 and the major foreign speaker at Student Mission 2000 before 75,000 Korean students who committed themselves to...

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From Olives to E-mail Frontier Missions Hits the Internet by Debra Fleetwood Wood Other

From Olives to E-mail Frontier Missions Hits the Internet by Debra Fleetwood Wood

In the mid-1400's a farmer's olive press cranked out the first mechanically printed Bible. God's kingdom hurtled forward at previously unthinkable speed. Within fifty years more than 6,000 books...

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What Do These People Have in Common? by Art McCleary Other

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...

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Adopt-A-People: Racing from GCOWE ‘95 to AD2000 Other

Adopt-A-People: Racing from GCOWE ‘95 to AD2000

Strategic New Initiatives to Channel The Resources Of The Global Church Of Christ To the Unreached Peoples Of The 10-40 Window

The AD2000 and Beyond Movement has challenged the world with the goal of a church for every people by the year 2000. The means of achieving this goal is becoming clearer all the time.

At the...

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Wycliffe Tries New Approach to Recruit “Missing Generation” in Translation Efforts Other

Wycliffe Tries New Approach to Recruit “Missing Generation” in Translation Efforts

Wycliffe Bible Translators has begun a new recruitment and awareness campaign called "The Changing Face of Missions" in an attempt to encourage young Christians to support and get involved in...

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Ko Tha Byu Leads “Stupid Wild Buffalos” to Enlightenment Other

Ko Tha Byu Leads “Stupid Wild Buffalos” to Enlightenment

This is the second in a series of articles taken from the book, The Founders of the Indian Church, by Donald A. McGavran, which was published in 1937. We present it here for the lessons we can...

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News and Opportunities from Wycliffe Bible Translators Other

News and Opportunities from Wycliffe Bible Translators

Wyclifffe Bible Translators Completes 400th Language New Testament

(Huntington Beach CA May 13, 1995) On July 8, 1995, the Barai of Papua New Guinea will receive their completed New Testament in a special dedication service. This New Testament is the 400th...

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