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Global Network of Centers for World Mission
Tags: agency, research, training
A Center for World Mission (CWM) exists to serve the Body of Christ as a catalyst for the cause of world evangelization with the emphasis on the least-reached peoples.
A CWM seeks to fill gaps...
Mission Agencies
Infrastructure, Passion, Business as Mission?
Tags: agency, business as mission
Some experts estimate there to be anywhere from 40,000 to 60,000 people from North America living around the world that would identify themselves as a being a full time missionary. At last count...
Further Reflections
Tags: agency, local church, para-church
After reading this column in the last issue of MF, several people wrote back with their reflections on the issues I raised for churches and agencies. Below you’ll see a few of the questions one...
Churches and Agencies Focus on “Finishing the Task”
Tags: agency, finishing the task
Eighteen mission agencies – including four of the world’s largest – have challenged local churches to partner with them in “Finishing the Task” (FTT), a strategy to nurture church-planting...
‘Two Sides to Every Issue’?
An Exchange Between Bob Finley and Ralph Winter
Ralph Winter’s note: Below is Dr. Finley’s response to a preliminary edition of this issue of Mission Frontiers. Here and there I have added some comments on specifi c statements - in which case we...
‘Disappointed and Grieved’
A Frontier Missionary's Response to Christian Mission Magazine
Having just finished reading the Summer 2005 edition of Christian Aid’s Christian Mission magazine, I am disappointed and deeply saddened by their disingenuous and manipulative approach to...
What is the Story?
Noting Errors of Fact, Concept and Strategy
What is today called the Christian Aid Mission has an interesting history which is summed up in the Summer 2005 issue of its magazine, Christian Mission.
Bob Finley first went out as a missionary...
Editorial Comment
Dear Reader,
Many years ago a little Chinese girl fearfully stepped into the house of some newly-arrived missionaries 100 miles north of Beijing. Her parents had insisted that she listen to...
Church-Based Missionaries
Has It Ever Worked?
Tags: agency
This is one of the most delicate issues today, and no doubt will continue to be into the near future. Some church traditions have emphasized the sole validity of the local church structure so...