May 01, 2006 by Ralph D. Winter

Editorial Comment

Dear Reader,
In our last issue (on the “Uncertain Future of Missions”) I wrote about my recent return visit to Guatemala, where my growing family and I worked between 1956 and 1966. I wrote of how...

Tags: gnms

May 01, 2006 by Justin Long

Ethnê ’06 Coordinates, Accelerates Efforts Toward “Least-Reached” Peoples

Here’s a quick test:
How many Christians does it take to send one missionary? It depends: the United States, sends one missionary per 2,000 Christians. Mongolia, sends one missionary for every 220...

Tags: ethne, least reached, unreached people group

May 01, 2006 by Phill Butler

A Survey of Kingdom Collaboration

What’s the Challenge?

It’s said that all cultures have both idealized and realized values. These values represent the way things ought to be and the way they really are. The distance between what...

Tags: collaboration, kingdom of god

May 01, 2006 by Claude Hickman

Compass, Telescope and Tour Guide

Lessons Learned in Student Mobilization

God has allowed us to have an enormous amount of contact with students over the past seven years. After 150,000 students and 1100 campus meetings I feel like we’re finally learning some things...

Tags: student, urbana

May 01, 2006 by Jacob Loewen

The Shifting God(s) of Western Christianity

The following excerpts are taken from chapter 18 of The Bible in Cross-Cultural Perspective (William Carey Library, 2000). To obtain copies of this book and other thought-provoking resources, see...

Tags: idolatry, western christianity

May 01, 2006 by Greg Parsons

When Our Message Falls Flat

We all like things a certain way – from how we like our eggs cooked, to serious things like how we communicate Jesus. Our backgrounds and experiences shape our preferences of church, emphases in...

Tags: contextualization