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12 Months Blocs Spotlight for July 2013
South Asian Peoples With Emphasis on India
Tags: india, mission, south asia, unreached people group
There is an urgent need for harvest laborers to come to India from other countries. Why?
- One-third of the world’s remaining unreached people groups live in India. India’s unreached are an...
Do We Need to Change the Way We Do Church to Reach the Unreached?
Tags: church, mission, unreached
Some readers may ask, “Why all this talk about how to do church? I thought this was a missions magazine?" As we bring the gospel to the unreached peoples, an essential question is what type of...
A Few Thoughts and Proposals Regarding Insider Movements
Tags: mission, movement, unreached people group
The Existential Reality
Our evangelical community across the world is debating, as we should, the limits and connections between cultural identity and faith in Christ. This is especially intense...
Kingdom Come!
The Ina People Catch the Vision for a Church-Planting Movement
"I’ve finished my CPM plan. What do I do next?" At the dawn of the 21st century, God began to unfold an amazing story of kingdom advance in a densely populated corner of Asia. Ying and Grace Kai...
Are you Ready for The Future of the Global Church?
Tags: mission
Jesus told us, “Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more” (Luke 12:48 ESV). By this standard, 21st-century...
“In Praise of Short-term Missions”
Tags: discipleship, mission, short-term mission
Well, I’m pretty sure the title for this column has never before appeared in the pages of MF. While troubles remain in the theory and practice of short-term missions (STMs), this issue shows that...
Short-Term Trips, Bible Storying and Church-Planting
Tags: mission, short-term mission
I (Doug) had trekked to a handful of countries on short-term mission trips in the past. These trips focused on various humanitarian efforts or maybe the occasional Vacation Bible School, but never...
Can Short-Term Teams Foster Long-Term Church-Planting Movements?
The Greatest Blessing Is to Train Others to Start Churches
Tags: mission, short-term mission
As the overcrowded and under–maintained bus slowed to pick up a passenger on the rural Asian road, an older woman stepped out of the bushes. The bus struck her and knocked her 20 feet, killing her...
Giving and Receiving Strategies
Tags: mission, perspectives
It’s commonplace in missions today to emphasize the need to let new believers decide what is best in their context, under the prayerful guidance of the Bible and the Holy Spirit. Jesus told his...
Patron-Client Missions
Tags: fundraising, mission
In 1996, my colleague and I came up with a grandiose idea. We were missionaries in Cambodia and thought we could encourage a local Cambodian church by providing them with a medical team from...