Letter From the Director

Dear Friend of the Hidden Peoples,

We have just sent out a special flyer, "Good News Bad News"
George Cowan, President of Wycliffe Bible Translators, has written to their staff world wide urging them to send in their $15.95.
A youth congress on the world level (organized by South African youth leaders) is announced to be simultaneous to the long planned mission executives' World Consultation on Frontier Missions at Edinburgh Oct. 27 to Nov. 1st.
92 Penn State students register for a special version of our mission emphasis International Studies course.
We now have 31 graduate students studying how to teach English as a second language.
King College, Bristol, Tenn., asks us to help them set up an IlS program this summer.
A report on South China telling of regions 80% Christian.
90 "Urbana Onward" conferences conclude this month, one here on our campus.
Today we discussed setting up a Central Asian Study Center touching hundreds of languages that fall in no, other major category.
Last Thursday we agreed to house an office focusing on 165 million deaf people in the world ¬the world's "fifth largest country" yet a people without a land, almost nowhere fairly treated.

What ties all this together THE BIGGEST, BOLDEST, WILDEST 5 SCHEME IN THE HISTORY OF MISSIONS. (IF THIS DOESN'T WORK, WHAT WILL?) Right now all over the world evangelicals in this gateway year to the year 2,000 are plotting, planning, praying, and laboring as never since 1910 to work together to complete the Great Commission. Never before could we count on so many Christians. What is the scheme? Collaboration on an unprecedented scale to penetrate the last 16,750 people groups where there is no vital, indigenous church.

Don't miss out. The U. S. Center for World Mission is only a tiny but, we believe, vital part of this whole picture. We don't believe that God has brought us out of Egypt to die in the desert. We do believe that somehow God will help us meet the March 8th deadline. We know that He is working in your heart and in the hearts of all 15,000 who get this bulletin. You have given. Now PRAY AS NEVER BEFORE! And send in for brochures to share with others. We must "Expect Great Things from God" even as we "Attempt Great Things for God."