This is an article from the January 1983 issue: Third World Missions

From the Director

From the Director

Dear friends,

In view of TIME Magazine's Christmas cover story recognizing Christian missionary effort as a major force in the world today, and, with Oxford University Press coming out this past year with possibly the biggest, most expensive book (now $125) they have ever produced devoted entirely to a meticulous global summary of the impact of 2, 000 years of missionary work.

With the two largest associations of mission agencies in the world deciding to focus their entire annual executive retreats in 1982 on the final frontiers (and likewise the '82 meeting of the German association of mission agencies).

With three new student mission organizations now going full swing, (Caleb, TSFM, NSMC), working closely together with all other student groups, all stressing the frontiers.

With stirring evidence before us that a tribal Christian movement's daily devotional practice in BURMA now bids fair to becoming a powerful nationwide movement in the USA as well (see pages 4, 5).

With 20 key mission and church executives huddling together Feb 7 & 8 (see page 14) to discuss a quantum leap forward in this same movement, IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT we can truly recognize the truth of the simple striking, Biblical assurance:

Call unto ME and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know

I wonder, if I as I write this... if you as you read this... if we could truly see through the newspapers across the worla and see the world as HE sees it, maybe the insoluble problems we all talk about would not seem so impressive... and we would begin to see that the only thing in the world which IS SUCCEEDING is the work HE is performing... whether or not we succeed here in Pasadena.

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