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The world is stirring as never before.
God apparently decided Americans needed an education on the Middle East, not just Eastern Europe.
And, He wanted the U.N. Security Council to agree on...
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The Passing of a Giant
This Month's Articles
Editorial
FeatureAn Insider’s View of McGavran
I first encountered McGavran's force of personality at the time his Bridges of God was published in 1955. The phrase "church growth" was not as prominent then as the concept of the people movement....
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OtherIndianapolis 1990:
All Dressed Up & Nowhere To Go?
Staff member Phil Bogosian attended this massive meeting and here shares his personal observations. He felt led to elaborate a detailed admonition as well, which we felt worthy to append. Not...
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OtherAdopt A People!
The Strategy for the 90's
What Does It Mean to Adopt A People?
The concept of "adopting" unreached peoples was born within North American evangelical circles in the early 1980s, gaining increasing popularity throughout...
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OtherGlobal Reports
News from Agencies Collaborating With the US Center for World Mission
Argentina
The Toba Indians: Missionaries Who Need a Surveyor!
Dave Sand, a Mobilization staff member recently returned...
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Other“Hope Does Not Disappoint” (Rom. 5:5)
The Mission Story of Hope Chapel, Austin, Texas
This story should be subtitled: "Dangerous Things to Avoid, If You Want to Keep Your Church from Making a Global Impact."
- Avoid the Perspectives Course. This church didn't. The first course...
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OtherArea Offices Report
The Harvest of Mission Activists is Plentiful. Workers Are Few!
PROCLAIM CENTER--Portland
Steve Wecks reports that "a real vision and earnestness for renewal and evangelization" is spreading through their prayer groups. Most of these groups have been "finding...
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OtherThe Asia Challenge
"To Awaken the Churches"
--by Dr. Edwin L. (Jack) Frizen
Seoul. Home of some of the largest churches in the world. In Korea, a country that 90 years ago was deemed "impenetrable by the Gospel" and now is nearly 35%...
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OtherSouth Africa:
Catching the Vision!
Thomas Wang recently visited South Africa. He spent two weeks in late June and early July visiting churches in Johannesburg, Capetown, Wellington and Durban. Notice the emphasis on the year...
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FeatureCrucial Issues in Missions Part 1
Working Toward the Year 2000
What a time to be peering into the future! It is as if a whole string of volcanoes has erupted in Eastern Europe, and almost the entire world is now clouded by massive and nearly impenetrable dust...
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FeatureThe Revolutionary Implications of the Unreached Peoples Concept
The "39 Articles" of People Group Thinking
A quiet revolution in missiological thinking and strategizing has been taking place for fifty years. It began with the seminal work of Townsend and McGavran in the 30s. It germinated in the early...
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OtherWe’re Running Out of Time
A Community Night Address
The stragglers rush up the steps to Franson Hall just as the auditorium bursts into "To God Be The Glory." Visiting missionaries, students taking English As A Foreign Language, mission classes from...
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Laying Foundations for the 90s
"I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; Iâm just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then." - Joshua 14:11
So spoke Caleb as the nation of Israel was on the verge of...
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