New Horizons in Mission

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Editorial Comment Editorial

Editorial Comment

This issue grasps for insight into "the new horizons" of mission. Not because we are running out of things to do.No...but because these stirring NEW HORIZONS are piling up on us. Like the...

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MF Behind the Scenes

Are You Seeking to Find the Best Mission Strategies?

They are coming at us more and more every day. This group or that appeals to us to support this mission strategy or another. But are all mission strategies created equal? Most would say no, but few...

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How the Film “JESUS” has become the Most Translated Film in History Other

How the Film “JESUS” has become the Most Translated Film in History

Five Steps in the Translation of "JESUS:" As soon as the language selection is made, the funds are raised, and the process begins.

STEP 1: WRITTEN TRANSLATION A native speaker of the language,...

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Self-Reliance or Interdependence Other

Self-Reliance or Interdependence

A Point-Counterpoint Discussion with Gary Parker of Mustard Seed and Glenn Schwartz of World Mission Associates

Gary Parker, Mustard Seed Interdependency: Another Way

How does a mission agency avoid the dangers of dependency described by Steve Saint and commented on by Glenn Schwartz in the May-June 1998...

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The Escalating Filipino Force for the Nations Other

The Escalating Filipino Force for the Nations

In the four brief years since its founding, the Asian Center for Missions has become the Philippines' largest agency sending workers outside the Philippine archipelago.

The Philippines have long...

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Pray Without Ceasing! Other

Pray Without Ceasing!

We are exhorted from 1 Thessalonians 5:17 to pray without ceasing. Many of the needs of the U.S. Center for World Mission require ceaseless prayer. Our campus is a major battlefield of spiritual...

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Kids Korner Other

Kids Korner

Greetings!

Web site improved and corrected! You can easily find all the original resources from the book, Kids for the World plus the '98 Update! We've been working hard to get all the codes of...

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News Other

News

Puchon, South Korea

Mission Korea Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary with 5000 Students--and a Prayer for a Korean Student Volunteer Movement.

Amidst an economic crisis that has been working to...

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Letters to the Editor Other

Letters to the Editor

Alcohol, Tobacco and Free Will

Nicotine, Cancer, Gambling. In 1983, it was estimated (as reported in the book None of These Diseases) that smoking was responsible for a total of about 400,000...

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Horizon One: Grass Roots Mobilization Fueling the Passion in the Pew Feature

Horizon One: Grass Roots Mobilization Fueling the Passion in the Pew

Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod opens a seat at the table for the people in the pew and watches its mission double.

Funding the missionary enterprise is widely viewed as a daunting task: a...

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Horizon Two: A Pre-Candidate Network Global Links with Local Touch Feature

Horizon Two: A Pre-Candidate Network Global Links with Local Touch

Could we work together on a joint, nationwide pre-candidate network to move God's purposes forward?

In the book, Choosing a Future for U.S. Missions, Paul McKaughan and William and Dellanna...

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Horizon Three: Re-thinking Mission Education The Breakthrough for On-Field Mission Training Feature

Horizon Three: Re-thinking Mission Education The Breakthrough for On-Field Mission Training

The amateurization versus professionalization debate--the two long-standing extremes in the training dimension of missionaries--is being substantially diminished as distance education reshapes the...

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Horizon Four: Avoiding Dependency Mobilizing Local Resources Raising Local Resources

Horizon Four: Avoiding Dependency Mobilizing Local Resources

Often we seek to mobilize global resources for local projects "over there" that we are convinced will work. Glenn Schwartz proposes a new set of priorities.

Speaking at a missions conference in...

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Horizon Five: DeWesternization/DeContextualization DeWesternization Tomorrow Feature

Horizon Five: DeWesternization/DeContextualization DeWesternization Tomorrow

Are we really ready for tomorrow's Kingdom?

A Jewish rabbi in Los Angeles has thrown down the gauntlet to wayward Westernizing Jews. He claims that his own Orthodoxy is the only genuine form of the Jewish faith. Conservative and Reformed...

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Horizon Six: Using Biculturals Feature

Horizon Six: Using Biculturals

Their Day Dawns Again

The strategy that catapulted the Church across the Roman Empire may foreshadow mission breakthroughs on the final frontiers.

Truly, we are racing through the last chapter of history. As our God...

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Horizon Seven: Microscopic Spiritual Warfare Massive Blind Spot? Feature

Horizon Seven: Microscopic Spiritual Warfare Massive Blind Spot?

Some "New Horizons" we took to the EFMA conference are not "new and emerging trends" but old problems that are simply blind spots. Puzzling! Are there really "blind spots? How could there be when...

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Horizon Seven: Microscopic Spiritual Warfare Massive Blind Spot? Feature

Horizon Seven: Microscopic Spiritual Warfare Massive Blind Spot?

Some "New Horizons" we took to the EFMA conference are not "new and emerging trends" but old problems that are simply blind spots. Puzzling! Are there really "blind spots? How could there be when...

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