The Editorial
Dear Reader,
This issue is full of news of things past and things soon to come. The future includes our cover story, "Countdown to 2000." And that year 2000 is not very far in the future! What...
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Countdown to AD2000
This Month's Articles
OtherMF Behind the Scenes
Just Three Years Left! What Can Be Accomplished?
The end of this century and the arrival of a new millenium draw ever closer. It is now just three years to the year 2000 and some are beginning to wonder if anything meaningful can be accomplished...
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FeaturePartnership: Accelerating World Evangelization in the 90’s
Find Out How Strategic Partnerships Can Help Your Church or Agency.
Partnership is an idea whose time has come in the world of missions.
Leading mission organizations and churches are exploring how to partner effectively rather than whether to partner.
The goal...
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OtherPartnerships and Advocacy for Unreached Peoples:
An Effective Means of Mobilizing and Deploying Kingdom Resources, But Facilitators and Advocates Are Needed.
There is an unprecedented mobilization of Kingdom resources in all continents for the 10/40 Window. Sooner or later many of these resources will end up in the field. These Kingdom resources will...
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FeatureAdopt-A-People A Truly Biblical Model of Mission
This article was reprinted from the AD2000 Adoption Guidance Program-- a Web-based source of information on adopting-a-people with links to dozens of mission agencies that you can adopt through.
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OtherFrom COMIBAM to the Nations
The Regional Consultation for Adopt-A-People Coordinators Lays the Foundation for Thousands of New Adoptions by Latin Churches
Peruvian medical workers in Pakistan sharing God's healing power with refugees, Guatemalans in India reaching out to Hindus with the good news of salvation in Christ, Argentines in Central Asia...
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OtherStrategic Partnerships: Sixteen Key Effectiveness Principles
Through many years of working to establish Strategic Evangelism Partnerships among agencies on the field, Phill Butler and the fine people at Interdev have learned that there are several key...
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OtherKids Korner
Greetings!
KID TO KID--Would you like to host a no-cost VBS project kit that features ministry to Russian kids which takes only about 12 minutes and, at the same time, provides Bibles and...
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FeatureGCOWE ’97 (Global Consultation on World Evangelization)
At the end of June four thousand mission and church leaders from over 120 countries will be coming to Pretoria in South Africa for the start of GCOWE '97 and the ten consultations that make it up....
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OtherMission Frontiers Would Like to Give Birth, But We Need Your Help!
Yes, you read that right. Mission Frontiers would like to give birth, not to children, but to thousands of independent magazines and newsletters in every people and culture of the world--all...
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EditorialGCOWE ’97 Mission Executives Consultation Pretoria, South Africa, June 30—July 5, 1997
What Do 500 Mission Executives Hope to Accomplish? An Interview with Avery Willis Co-Chairman
For only the second time since 1910, mission agency leaders will be meeting on a global level to discuss cooperation and coordination of their efforts in World Evangelization. They will be meeting...
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OtherCenters for World Mission: Why Do We Need Them?
"Got Milk?" The milk commercials depicting frantic people who have just eaten a cookie but can't get a drink of milk are an example of how an industry can generically promote its product. Each...
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FeatureGCOWE ’97 Pretoria, South Africa, June 30,—July 5th 1997
An Overview of the Ten Consultions
Preparations are moving forward for the upcoming Global Consultation on World Evangelization called GCOWE ’97 in Pretoria South Africa, June 30-July 5, 1997. This consultation consists of ten...
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OtherDoes God Take Degrees Seriously?
Any clues from culture?
One of today's global cultural realities (unfortunately?) is the general, even uncritical, acceptance of "a university degree."
Some evidence from the U.S.A.:
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OtherThe ” XGatewayX ” People Cluster Consultation
California Laying the Foundation for Church and Agency Cooperation
On the 17th of April over 250 church and mission leaders gathered in Pasadena, at the facilities of the US Center for World Mission, for the Gateway People Cluster Consultation. The term "Gateway"...
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