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From the Director
…Foreclosure! Today is Sept 4, the first business day after September 1st, when we were due to pay $300,000. We are $154,000 short. The phone conversation a few minutes ago: "I am very, very sorry, but my instructions are to proceed with foreclosure." Those words I did not have to…
From the Director
…The "invasion of the the colleges"! Missionaries like paratroopers descending upon the presidential chairs of Christian colleges! But how wonderfully timely and beneficial is this new international link. See pages 19 24 for the cover story this time. Don't miss the story about the lady from Minneapolis who visited a…
The Expulsive Power of a New Affection
…Football versus church attendance? Yes, more people are in church on a single Sunday Morning in the United State than attend all college and professional football games in a year. And that, dear friend, is no accident. God is gaining. No football game could be as exciting as what He…
From the Director
…As election time draws near hundreds of thousands of local workers seem to come out of the woodwork. They beat the bushes, badger thousands of people to get a few more votes. They do not count on winning. They eagerly and urgently do their best. Well, we are profoundly grateful…
From the Director
…Dear friends, One of the most remarkable pictorial displays of the REMAINING TASK is found on pages • 4 & 5. Take a look. Sit back. Take a deep breath. Maybe it IS possible to take the tight • I into every remaining people group by the year 2000! Did…
From the Director
…Dear faithful friends, On the dinner table here beside me as I type these words is a letter of staggering importance from Dallas, Texas. I heard about it (and the momentous decision behind it) a few days ago. But the actual letter has been in my hands for only a…
Should We Give Up?
…Should we give up? Is it worth trying to pursue the magnificent goal of giving new vision and hope to a million people? (That's an additional 960,000 people!) It is hard to believe that seven years have passed now, and that we have just barely weathered the biggest crisis of…
From the Director
…Dear faithful friends, When I was in engineering school we didn't have hand calculators as students today have. And I still thought numbers were nice, clean, friendly! But let me show you what a bit of arithmetic can do. A few minutes ago I felt like some great potentate being…
From the Director
…Dear Friends, Wagner's stunning new book is alert to 'WHAT GOD'S DOING' all over the world. But most people are not looking (Are you?) Tell me, could there be any more malignant a disease than when people stop looking at what Cod is doing and allow their lives to be…
From the Director
…Dear Believing Friend, for A stone's throw from my office at this very modest second hand campus you'll World find a whole lot of missionaries. They are backMission eager, joyful, really neat people, with backV tiSSlOfl grounds of extended experience (averaging PAflDEH&CAa%S. over 20 years) in 40 countries and 6'1…
From the Director
…Dear faithful friend, It is hard for me (and other long term staff here) to realize that we are now so close to so monumental a deadline. You find it hard to believe that so simple a plan could possibly work. I don't blame you. We are simply asking for…
Saving Ourselves and Others
…America today is a saveyourself society if there ever was one. But does it really work? The underdeveloped societies suffer from one set of diseases: tuberculosis, malnutrition, pneumonia, parasites, typhoid, cholera, typhus, etc. Affluent America has virtually invented a whole new set of diseases: obesity, arteriosclerosis, head disease, strokes, lung…
Financial Update
…The suspense heightens in this countdown to the $6 million balloon payment due September 1st, a little over 90 days away! As we explained last time, refinancing is a grim picture. Outstanding business people have advised us: you must pay this payment! How? All approaches involve God's miracles Here are…
From the Director
…Dear Friends, This issue of Mission Frontiers throbs with the new, exciting pulse of a prayer emphasis which is now sweeping the country. We thank God and we thank David Bryant (along with others) for a brand new element that has been added, "Concerts of Prayer" or concentrated prayer gatherings.…
An Open Letter
…Dear People, As we get nearer that payment friends are more than ever besieging us with all kinds of earnest advice which we appreciate. 1. "Don't scare people. They won't support you if they think you are going down." We are doing nothing we know of that is intended to…
Editorial
…This, I hope, will be the last time I'm writing to you late. But a have you noticed that we are catching up? And, though you are now getting issues late, they are coming MONTHLY? I Why is this issue late? Well, I just couldn't let this go to press…
Meet/Greet/Congratulate Larry Keyes!
…Bang, bang, bang! Richard Chase left the presidency of Biola University to become Wheaton's sixth president. Biola called on Clyde Cook, who was then president of Overseas Crusades, to be Biola's new president. No problem! Overseas Crusades then simply reached down to Brazil to bring their field director, Larry Keyes,…
The Explosion of New Missions Within the Non-Western World
…Some years ago I got a letter from the editor of a World Council of churches publication inviting me to write an article for their journal. The International Review of Mission. Me t this was an unusual opportunity and proceeded immediately to develop what I felt was an important question…
Financial Update
…This update is for all of you who have followed us and invested your money and your very lives in prayer for this project. "The Report Card" to the right shows the record for the year 1982. The BAD NEWS is that only twice before have we been this far…
From the Director
…Dear People, If every mission agency were to do what LAM's Cliff Holland (cover picture) is doing it would overnight double the impact of the Gospel on the 17,000 remaining mission fields of the world. Well, not "overnight" but... No idea in mission circles is more potent than the idea…