Laying a Firm Foundation for Mission in the Next Millennium

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Editorial Comment Editorial

Editorial Comment

Dear Reader,

This has been for me the most difficult issue of Mission Frontiers.

Here at the Center in Pasadena we try to promote the entire Cause of Missions, mentioning specific agencies from...

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Behind the Scenes

Back to Basics?

For many of our long time readers some articles in this issue, like the one by Steve Hawthorne starting on page 9, may seem fairly basic, for example: “What is an unreached people?” But we believe...

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Letters to the Editor Other

Letters to the Editor

Should We Have Ads?

I say, “Do whatever is needed to get it into the hands of everyone possible.” MF is a tremendous help and catalyst in keeping the mission moving forward towards its completion. --Tim

Yours is one...

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Looking at a Country as People Groups Other

Looking at a Country as People Groups

As Christians look to other countries, the national churches naturally draw our attention. In many countries, hundreds of churches, thoroughly rooted in local culture and leadership, can easily...

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Six Spheres of Mission Overseas Feature

Six Spheres of Mission Overseas

  • What are all those thousands of missionares doing?
  • What would you do as a missionary?
  • Do they try to change peoples’ behavior? Their homes? Their drinking water? Teeth? Understanding of...
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The Meaning of Mission Understanding this Term is Crucial to the Completion of the Missionary Task. Feature

The Meaning of Mission Understanding this Term is Crucial to the Completion of the Missionary Task.

The future of the world hinges on what we make of this word “mission.” Yet at this moment it is almost universally misunderstood—in both liberal and conservative circles.

About the only people...

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Mission Leaders Agree on the Strategy Other

Mission Leaders Agree on the Strategy

In March 1982 a group of mission leaders came together in Chicago for a meeting sponsored by the Lausanne Strategy Working Group. It was designed to help bring clarity and definition to the...

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Christâs Global Cause Other

Christâs Global Cause

Is There a Roll for Me, Or Just a Stone?

Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? —Jesus

Okay, okay . . . the pun in my title (bread roll=role—get it?) won’t qualify for the International Pun-Preservers’...

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World View Video Library Makes A Positive Impact on Churches Other

World View Video Library Makes A Positive Impact on Churches

The images and messages of films and videos have the power to change a person's thinking and his life. This is the goal of assembling the Mobilization tool called the World View Video Library...

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Mission Training File: Next Step Other

Mission Training File: Next Step

LaunchedPartnership aims to increase missionary effectiveness,decrease attrition

Next Step: The North American Mission Training Partnership Launched

Mission training stakeholders, after two years of deliberate exploration and preparation, agreed to cooperate on a common goal:...

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In Memory of Shirley Clingman Other

In Memory of Shirley Clingman

Seeing Him Face to Face...

In recent issues of Mission Frontiers, we highlighted several prayer requests of the U.S. Center for World Mission. One of the special people we invited you to pray for was Shirley Clingman. She...

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News from the JESUS Film Project Other

News from the JESUS Film Project

Spiritual Hunger Marks Former Famine-struck Nation

In today’s Ethiopia, the widespread images of suffering that horrified the world a decade ago have passed. Throughout much of the nation, one sees small, hand cultivated fields. Cattle and goats...

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Kids Korner Other

Kids Korner

Greetings!

Don’t miss out on the International Children’s Expo’98! Scheduled for Thursday through Saturday, April 23-25, in Indianapolis, Indiana, this Expo is for: Sunday School Teachers, Kids...

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Laying a Firm Foundation for Mission in the Next Millennium Other

Laying a Firm Foundation for Mission in the Next Millennium

As we approach the dawn of a new millennium in world evangelization, we need a clear understanding of what God has asked us to do. The following article first appeared in World Christian Magazine...

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