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Dear Readers,

You would not be holding this bulletin in your hands if you were not wanting to learn something important to you and the work of God on this earth.

As usual, as I sit down to...

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MF Behind the Scenes

Make Your Life Count: Be Strategic

All of us who are convinced of God's love for the lost and the importance of obedience to the Great Commission want our lives to count. We want to make a difference by establishing God's Kingdom in...

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Letters

Two Bikes

I write in response to "When Two Bikes Split a Church" (Dec. 2000). Over the last three years our organization has sent more than $30,000 to India for indigenous ministries to use...

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College Doesn’t Have to Be a Detour From Reality

Now you can take college with you

Would you be interested in learning the absolutely essential knowledge for every World Christian and still graduate from the college of your choice?

Would you like to study either on our campus...

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Glenn Schwartz Raising Local Resources

Is There a Cure?

Looking for solutions to dependency among mission-established churches.

One of the most difficult problems facing the Christian movement at the beginning of the 21st century is the dependency on...

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The JESUS Film Makes Astounding Progress

Three years ago we featured this powerful mission resource. Read and be amazed at their progress in so short a span of time.

In the December 1997 issue of Mission Frontiers we featured the JESUS...

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Kids Korner

The 4/14 Window

The 4/14 Window is a key to the 10/40 Window. The 4/14 Window is a term that was coined from the fact that 85 percent of people who become Christians, do so between the ages of 4...

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Muslims tell… “Why I Chose Jesus”

A survey of Muslim-background believers gives the Christian community an opportunity to hear what fellow Christ-followers found attractive in Christ-centered faith.

THE SCOPE OF ISLAMIC INFLUENCE...

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News

Passing the Baton

As the year 2000 closed, the Christian mission community lost a number of servants who have served admirably in the cause, bringing the Gospel to the unreached. We highlight...

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Reaching New Heights and Hearts

Born as a follow-up to Urbana, the Perspectives course continues its world view tranformation.

With graduates from the Perspectives course fast approaching the 50,000 mark, the course is...

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Feature

Urbana 2000

Excerpted from several talks at Urbana 2000.

We are like orphans, living as if we have no Father ... This is when sin enters the picture and makes us forget that we have ever been kissed And we...

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A Glorious Pursuit

Reflections on God's passion for worshipers from all peoples.

My life as a worshiper was changed at Urbana '76 when I heard Edmund Clowney preach the punch line from Psalm 96 as "Our International Anthem." "When we worship God as we ought," Clowney declared,...

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Doing What I Was Made For

A personal, behind-the-scenes look at Urbana 2000.

--Moyra Jean Stiles

Big events (and coverage of them) can come across as large and impersonal--media hype. In an effort to get a more personal...

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Resources to help you find your place in the journey

So what do I do now?

There I was standing at the edge of this wide chasm looking across at the other side. Just months before I had taken the plunge. I had begun a trek where no man had gone...

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Students share how Urbana 2000 transformed their lives

Coming to the Urbana Student Missions Conference shook Dan, a graduate student from California, in ways he never expected. "There's no reason I should I assume I'm stuck in the United States, is...

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Worship Becoming Mission: Urbana 2000

Urbana 2000 was characterized by Jubilant praise to the Father which transformed into burning desire to proclaim His glory among the natons.

Over 19,000 worshipers--mostly college-aged--crowded...

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Spiritual Discernment

There needs to be a higher level of spiritual discernment today to understand culture, to understand how to be effective in postmodern society. I find, however, that young people today have...

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Greg Parsons Further Reflections

Further Reflections

I first attended Urbana during my third year of year of college. That year a friend, Doug Houch, and I were seeking to challenge our college/career group toward mission. We created an insert that...

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