August 01, 1986 by Ralph D. Winter

The Students are Coming!

Tragically, very few ordinary Bible believing Christians have had the chance to become aware of the fact that the world is corning to an end, right before our eyes. This year. 1986, is a THRESHOLD year! Here are some of the evidences. (Watch the students!)

A few days ago (August 27 Sept I) the fourth conference this year was held commemorating a crucial turning point in student life exactly too years earlier the Student Volunteer Movement.

In a rare convergence, the speakers at ML Hermon, Massachussetls were the heads of the three largest nationwide student organizations: Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship (Gordon MacDonald), Campus Crusade (Bill Bright), and the Navigators (Jerry White). What an awesome thing to stand where I). L. Moody stood 100 years earlier!

Besides White, Bright, and MacDonald, student mission activists from all over the country were also present. Here are some of their amazing activities:

Caleb Project is coordinating three teams of students "on their way to the field" who will criss cross the country in the coming academic year in three vans. They expect to hold over 300 meetings and present their message to 30,000.

Nine Annual "Regionals" in the next academic year will bring possibly 5.000 students together in area wide mission conferences.

"Perspectives' Courses in 84 locations will offer mission vision to over 2,000 students occupying about 200 hours of time per student, and making a permanent, lifechanging impression. (See page 16 for locations.)

Missions and Silicon Valley

We may often assume that the world is always ahead of Christians in technical areas. Not right now!

What? Missionaries getting out ahead of "the world's" technology? It's true! Sonic of the things happening right here on our campus are at the very forefront (even ahead of) everyone else in the science of computer mapping.

We have sometimes boasted that our cinema group possesses the world's most sophisticated film dubbing laboratory owned by Christians. But that claim still acknowledges the existence of other, more elaborate labs owned by non Christians.

Right now, however, nothing in the world tops the breakthroughs resulting from the fertile collaboration here between the USCWM's Computer Center, the Dalaserve technical staff (and their compatriots up in Silicon Valley), and the harddriving bunch clustered around Bob Waymire, a global missionary statesman/diplomat carrying the ball for his remarkable Global Mapping Project.

Talk About "Collaboration"!

It's beautiful, These folks also work with MARC/World Vision, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Gospel Recordings (most derailed files of all), Patrick Johnstone in London, David Barren: of World Christian Encyclopedia fame, as well as with some 40 other autonomous corporations located right here on this relatively small (35 acre) college campus.

So? It is none too soon. THE STUDENTS ARE COMING. All these facts and figures am being brought together to pierce the darkness with a blaze of light revealing the details of the unfinished task ¬just in time so that thousands of young people worldwide who are just now before our eyes rising like a massive groundswell can GET THERE, and do the right thing!

Amsterdam Again!

Christianity Today, September 5th, gives cover story attention to the phenomenal Amsterdam '86 gathering (see Mission Frontiers, July cover),

Cr's Ron Lee does a good job. The article covers many aspects of the world situation with regard to national workas not only evangelists, but missionaries as well! Extensive discussions with key nationals make Lee's story sparkle.

What a meeting! What a world movement the cause of Christ!

75 Million Hear of the Unreached?

The Global Prayer Digest is now being read over the air many times each day on each ofl3O radio stations. We are told that the potential listening audience of these stations is 75 million. The stations do not charge as for this wonderful service, but it does cost us something to send out the recordings each month. Even if the actual listenership is only I per 1,000. it still means an amazing 75, people are hearing the Global Prayer Digest each day!