Dependency

When Our Giving Does More Harm than Good! Dependency and missions.

This Month's Articles

Two Christian Leaders Discuss Dependency Feature

Two Christian Leaders Discuss Dependency

Chuck Bennett of Partners Intl.

Like Glenn, I abhor unhealthy dependency and believe "psychological ownership" is an indispensable element in any true people movement. Like him, I studied under...

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Editorial Comment Editorial

Editorial Comment

Dear Reader,

Before we get down to the serious business of this issue, let's take note of the momentous things that may have happened in your life and mine since our last issue in 1996.

For me...

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What Hath Our Western Money and Our Western Gospel Wrought? Feature

What Hath Our Western Money and Our Western Gospel Wrought?

Increasing financial paternalism and accompanying Westernization of the gospel are the two most critical issues facing us in world missions today. We have a choice to make: either push these issues...

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Proceed With Caution Part 1 Feature

Proceed With Caution Part 1

Motivating the church to reach the unreached people groups has been like pushing a car up a hill. Today, the car has reached the top of the hill--churches are excited about the final frontiers of...

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Students: Duck out of missions by digging into debt! Or, read on for two solutions to avoid debt Other

Students: Duck out of missions by digging into debt! Or, read on for two solutions to avoid debt

"Attention Urbana exhibitors: Students have complained that mission agencies lose interest in them when they reveal their student debt..."

This announcement came minutes before the delegate...

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Urbana 96 Focused on the Unreached Peoples Other

Urbana 96 Focused on the Unreached Peoples

AD2000 International Office Staff

Editors Note: Here at the US Center for World Mission we are gratified to see the increased emphasis on unreached peoples at Urbana '96. We hope that this will continue for all the Urbana mission...

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Latins say “SiÇ” to World Evangelization: LatinoAmerica 2000 Other

Latins say “SiÇ” to World Evangelization: LatinoAmerica 2000

Invited by the AD2000 and Beyond Movement and Campus Crusade for Christ, they came to Panama City, Panama, from all over Latin America: from the coastlands of Chile, to the islands of the...

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An AD2000 and Beyond Movement Other

An AD2000 and Beyond Movement

Report on the First National Missions Consultation Focused on Indonesian Unreached Peoples

"Lord, forgive us, it is our sin that has kept our Indonesian brothers and sisters unreached. Lord, forgive us for focusing only on ourselves and not on our neighbor unreached peoples.

"Lord,...

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Come And See The AGP AD2000 Releases Adoption Program on the WEB Other

Come And See The AGP AD2000 Releases Adoption Program on the WEB

Have you ever considered helping your church to adopt a people group? Has your church made a commitment to a particular people group, but doesn't know what the next step should be? Do you need help...

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MF Behind the Scenes Feature

MF Behind the Scenes

Dependency: The Killer of People Movements to Christ

Last year we presented the critical need for the De-Westernization of the gospel in order for it to spread naturally throughout the unreached peoples by means of "people movements" to Christ. In...

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Kids Korner Other

Kids Korner

HAPPY NEW YEAR! The New Year has exploded with new ideas and resources:

  1. YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD, Vol.2; and
  2. I HEARD GOOD NEWS TODAY are newly featured books from William Carey Library...
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What is the Cutting Edge of Missions? Feature

What is the Cutting Edge of Missions?

Recently, a missions "expert" was giving advice to a pastor.

"Your missions program is good," he said, "but it is rather traditional. You are no longer on the cutting edge." He went on to say...

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Cutting the Apron Strings Feature

Cutting the Apron Strings

Here's how churches can move from depending on mission agencies to relying on themselves -with some suggestions to minimize the pain.

(Reprinted with permission from the Evangelical Missions Quarterly - Jan. 1994, Box 794, Wheaton, Ill. 60189)

Several decades ago, Nicholas Bhengu, the leader of the Assemblies of God in South...

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It’s Time To Get Serious About The Cycle Of Dependency in Africa Feature

It’s Time To Get Serious About The Cycle Of Dependency in Africa

(Reprinted by permission from the April 1993 issue of Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Box 794, Wheaton, Ill. 60189.)

Some time ago I learned about a missionary to Africa who gave more than 20...

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The Church In Africa: Making Its Way From Dependency to Self Reliance Feature

The Church In Africa: Making Its Way From Dependency to Self Reliance

The Church in Africa which has experienced a dramatic growth in the last 30 years is faced with a resource crisis. Many churches would like to have adequate trained personnel (evangelists, pastors,...

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Don’t Chase Buffaloes Feature

Don’t Chase Buffaloes

Reprinted with permission from the January 1994 issue of Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Box 794, Wheaton, Ill. 60189

The following story was told to me following a 1992 seminar in Capetown,...

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A Champion for Self Reliance An Interview With Glenn Schwartz

MF: How did you come to become concerned about issues of dependency among mission-established institutions?

Glenn: I first went out to Central Africa in 1961 when I was in my early twenties....

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