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Editorial Comment Editorial

Editorial Comment

Note to reader: Due to the unexpectedly long period between the last issue of Mission Frontiers and this one (four months), AND, due to the incredible events during this period, we have had to...

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Mission Frontiers Vision Network Update November 1992 Feature

Mission Frontiers Vision Network Update November 1992

Praise the Lord, He is "adding daily" those who are needed to reach our short term goal of a coordinator in every state of the US and one for every province in Canada. We have only a few in Canada...

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Communicating Christ to the Hindu World Other

Communicating Christ to the Hindu World

By all means the Hindus must hear the Gospel! This is my concern. Many people ask me, "Are the Hindus interested in the Gospel? Do they respond well? Are they tough to deal with?" Well, I want to...

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Mission Executives Section

The IFMA Frontier Declaration of 1982

Introduction by Ralph Winter

Here is a fascinating chain of events: A small bombshell exploded at a meeting in 1972 of mission executives and professors. A Southern Baptist missions professor...

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Facing the Final Frontiers Feature

Facing the Final Frontiers

A Report to the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Assn.

This paper was given at the same IFMA meeting 10 years ago at which the IFMA Declaration was made.(See page 33. It is reprinted here to remind us of the critical issues that still need to be...

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1792—The 200th Anniversary Feature

1792—The 200th Anniversary

Lessons from William Carey for the ’90s

Introduction

In a letter from Leicester, England, to his "Dear and Honored Father" while preparing for his initial departure for India, William Carey wrote:

"I hope, dear father, you may be...

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How Can All Peoples Be Reached By The Year 2000? Feature

How Can All Peoples Be Reached By The Year 2000?

An Address to the ISFM, Kansas City, Missouri Sept 17-19, 1992

This year we celebrate the bicentenary of William Carey who is known as the father of modern day missions. Carey arrived in India in 1792. One hundred years later A.T. Pierson made the statement:...

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Kids Korner Other

Kids Korner

Greetings!

FALL! And I've had a very busy hot summer, many days without enough volunteer help in the Mission Resource Center. In addition to helping in the MRC, I prepared and taught the weekly...

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Letters to the Editor

Encouraging Response to Overseas Expansion Program

In July of this year Mission Frontiers began an expansion program aimed at placing MF in the hands of every mission and church leader in the...

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Building the Missing Bridge Feature

Building the Missing Bridge

Education for "People On The Run"

The numbers are astounding! In just the last two years the number of cross-cultural missionaries from the third world has jumped by 10,000 from 39,000 to 49,000. And this is just the beginning. It...

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An Announcement You Can Act On! Other

An Announcement You Can Act On!

We now have more than 500 requests for information in response to the kind of announcement you see across the page. It is about our new expansion into a part-time, off-campus, individualized study...

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13,000 Meet in Lagos Nigeria for AD2000 Other

13,000 Meet in Lagos Nigeria for AD2000

The Largest Meeting of Pastors Ever!

This is a personal account of a remarkable event--the Church Growth Conference for Africa held in the International Bible Training Center near Lagos, Nigeria, August 5-11, 1992.

The figures were...

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Christopher Columbus Feature

Christopher Columbus

A Sinner With A Heart for Frontier Missions

As we mark the 500th anniversary of the landing of Christopher Columbus in the new world, we find a great deal of controversy regarding whether he was a hero or a villain. He seems to have gotten...

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Presbyterian Agency Votes $1,000,000 for Frontier Mission Outreach Other

Presbyterian Agency Votes $1,000,000 for Frontier Mission Outreach

"Great, new, exciting changes in our denomination!" is the way Tom Theriault describes the missions advances taking place within the Presbyterian Church (USA). Recently, unreached peoples, the...

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Why Ask Missionaries to Beg? Other

Why Ask Missionaries to Beg?

Here Is An Alternative

Consider this ad:

Wanted: Pastor for a thriving church in the Midwest. Applicant must be a college graduate and preferably seminary trained. Personal qualities should include linguistic...

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Uzbekistan: One Christian’s Dream Other

Uzbekistan: One Christian’s Dream

Paul Upsee* an American Christian living in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan in the Commonwealth of Independent States, believes the Uzbek people have the potential for a "people movement."...

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