August 01, 1982 by

Popular Christian Singer Shares Frontier Vision Before his Death in Airplane Accident in Texas

Keith Green, the popular contemporary Christian songwriter and singer who was recently killed in the crash of a light plane near his home in Lindale, Texas, had become a special friend of the U.S. Center and the cause of frontier missions in the last weeks before his death.

Green had spent several hours in personal discussion with Center Director Dr, Ralph Winter during a concert tour in Southern California earlier in the summer.

Green had become impressed with the need for missions following a tour of Youth With a Mission bases in Europe this summer. His concerts and speaking appearances had increasingly stressed the need for individual commitment and involvement in the cause of world evangelization.

Exciting New Map!

A Map of the Chinese People has just been published by the U.S. Center's Institute of Chinese Studies according to Institute director Jim Ziervoegel.

The map' features full color paintings of 30 of China's economic and vocational people groups¬not just the ethnic groups which had previously been charted by the National Geographic Society in their "People of China" map.

'The National Geographic Society map is a must for anyone who is vitally interested in the evangelization of China," Ziervoegel said, "but their chart emphasizes the diversity of China's 55 minority people groups, while the Han Chinese, who comprise over 90% of the population are treated as a single entity.

"Our map looks within the Han people group to describe the poilitical, social or vocational groups which must be penetrated with the gospel, and a church established, if all the peoples of China are to have an opportunity to respond to the good news of Jesus Christ and His love,"A brother sister team of accomplished artists were responsible for the 30 paintings contained in the 28 by 35 inch map, Patrick and Kayee Chau did the art work. Both are relatively new Christians, according to Ziervoegel,and approached their task with great enthusiasm.

Patrick has spent this summer working with the Fellowship of Artists in Cultural Evangelism,, another group located on the, campus of the USCWM in Pasadena, To order a copy, see back page.Or write for a free brochure describing the map in more detail: ICS, 1605 Elizabeth, Pasadena, CA 91104.

One of the continuing products of the U. S. Center for World Mission has been the wealth of technical and statistical data produced within the Center's strategy division.

Now Dr. Ralph Winter, General Director, and Bruce Graham, engineer and Acting Director of the Institute of Hindu Studies, have collaborated to produce a 24 page booklet entitled Parade of the Nations highlighting current data on 167 countries of the world.

Working from data generated by David Barrett's World Christian Encyclopedia and the 1982 World Almanac the booklet compares and ranks the countries according to twelve different social and spiritual parameters.For example, on the pages illustrated above, the 167 countries are ranked according to their evangelical population from the largest (United States) to the smallest (Vatican). The drawing across the top of the page gives a scale representation of the data contained in the chart.

Staff candidates learn of Center's history

Over 20 enthusiastic staff candidates attended the U. S. Center's summer orientation program July 19 23 according to orientation director, Brad Gill.

The candidates for Center staff positions participated in a weeklong overview of Center history, ministry and purposes, as well as sessions on the development of a personal ministry team.

A number of the candidates have already been accepted for service with the Center and are now in the process of developing the financial support needed for service t the Center.

Each member of the Center's staff is responsible for raising the financial support both for his own living expenses and for the budget to cover his work expenses.

These accepted candidates are located in practically every area of the country. If you would like to have a member of the Center staff speak in your church, or if your church is interested in personally supporting a Center staffer, contact Brad Gill, Orientation Director, USCWM, 1605 Elizabeth, Pasadena, CA 91104.

Mission Frontiers readers who are interested in the possibility of joining the Center's staff should contact Norm Lewis, Communications Director, at the same address. The Center has personnel needs in most categories of administrative and mobilizaiton activities.

Mission Leaders Focus on Frontiers

Mission agencies, big and small, are friendly with each other and work closely together. Leaders of the two largest evangelical mission associations in the U.S. will be meeting September 27-30. Highly interesting to readers of Mission Frontiers  is the fact that in both meetings the theme this year focuses on completing the task of world evangelization.The Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) is meeting at America's Keswick in New Jersey, with the theme: "Penetrating the Frontiers." Dr. Ralph Winter, Director of the U . S. Center for World Mission, will bring the Keynote Address to that conference.

Meanwhile, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association is sponsoring an enlarged consultation with the theme: "The Challenge of Our Task." The focus of this fourday meeting is also on "completing the task of evangelizing the world."

USCWM Board Chairman Dr. Donald McGavran is one of the featured speakers at this meeting. His topic is "The Challenge of Unreached Peoples"

Asian Evangelicals Form Alliance

A new regional fellowship of evangelical Christians, the Asia Evangelical Alliance, will be inaugurated in January 1983, by a committee composed of outstanding evangelical leaders from several Asian countries.

Rev. Thomas Wang, General Secretary of the Chinese Coordination Center of World Evangelism reported this new development in a recent visit to the U. S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena.

Along with Wang, other members of the committee are Rev.

Augustus Vencer of the Philippines, Dr. Bong Ro of Korea, Mr. John Richards of India, Rev. Cho Jon Park of Korea and Mr. Theodore Hsueh of Hong Kong.

The committee was constituted at the Consultation on Church Renewal held recently in Seoul, Korea. There 90 delegates from 18 Asian countries agreed to seek recognition of the new alliance by national evangelical groups for the purposes of increased cooperation in outreach to unreached peoples and development and use of new resources in the church's educational ministry.

After the Alliance is formed in 1983, the initiating committee will relinquish leadership to the Alliance itself.

Wanted: USCWM Needs Duplicator, Cars

Tim Lewis, special assistant to the General Director of the USCWM, points out that the Center currently has a need for several items of equipment and service which Mission Frontiers readers may be able to meet.

A spirit duplicator is needed to provide much of the administrative paperwork now being reproduced on more expensive copy machines.

The Center could also use several vehicles (in running condition) for pick up and delivery work in the Pasadena area.

Any Southern California readers able to assist in repairing audio-visual equipment (televisions, public address systems, etc.) should also contact Lewis at the Center (213) 797-1111.

Oops!

Two alert Mission Frontiers readers spotted a typographical error on page 23 of our June issue, which referred to the "Sudanese" people. The people group referred to here are the 'Sundanese" people of Indonesia.

Paul Hensley, a Navigator area representative and Paul Hawley, Research Associate with World Vision's MARC were the sharp eyed readers who caught the error and brought it to our attention.