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Editorial Comment Editorial

Editorial Comment

There are some things only missionaries can do best. One of those things is to man a major global center focused on the remaining frontiers of mission.

Sure, we need other people too—and we have...

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Behind the Scenes

Strategic Giving—Appearances Can Be Deceiving

Every day our mailbox is full of them—appeals for financial support from various ministries and organiza­tions each hoping to convince us that their...

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Letters Other

Letters

Blessed by MF

I was deeply moved by the article “The Urbana Story” on the Mission Frontiers website. Thanks for the wonderful website, which is a great source of blessing. I am an Indian by...

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Strategic Giving Feature

Strategic Giving

Where Your Treasure Is...

A fresh look at our life and our resources in light of the Kingdom.

Believers are called to give of their resources. Most evangelicals would accept that statement as truth, whatever else they...

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Are We Trifling With Missions? Feature

Are We Trifling With Missions?

Arthur T. Pierson challenges the church of the 1890s—and today—to lay down its materialism in an effort to make the Gospel “speed its way around the globe.”

I am a little afraid that the seeds of...

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Chipping In Feature

Chipping In

A Sri Lankan leader gives challenges and cautions to North American givers.

A conversation with Ajith Fernando.

A s a prominent evangelical leader from Sri Lanka, Ajith Fernando has something...

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Facing the Facts Feature

Facing the Facts

A mission executive addresses the sometimes distorted financial picture of missions.

Operation Mobilization has people from about 80 different countries working in dozens of other countries...

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Guideposts for Giving Feature

Guideposts for Giving

Principles that help the giver avoid unwanted dependency as a result of giving.

For the past several decades I have been concen­trating on issues of dependency and self-reliance among...

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The Principle of Geographical Proximity Other

The Principle of Geographical Proximity

Recently I was pleased to hear that a church in Zambia collected a planeload of relief supplies to send to southern Sudan. When the Rwandan refugee crisis occurred several years ago, churches in...

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Whatever Happened to the Apostle Paul? Feature

Whatever Happened to the Apostle Paul?

An exposition of Paul’s teaching and practice of giving.

What would the Apostle Paul say and do if he showed up at your church, joined your missions committee, became a member of your mission...

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What is Driving “Partnership”? Feature

What is Driving “Partnership”?

The buzzword in missions today is “partnership.” Everybody is writing and talking about it. So much so, that a new term has been coined—the International Partnership Movement (IPM). This movement...

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Good Intentions Are Not Always Good Enough Feature

Good Intentions Are Not Always Good Enough

The English intellect C. P. Snow asked the now-famous question, “Can we do ‘good’ when the foreseeable consequences are evil?” No, but what if the evil consequences are not easily “foreseeable?”...Read The Full Article

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Joshua Project 2000 is Reborn as Joshua Project II Other

Joshua Project 2000 is Reborn as Joshua Project II

The mission of Joshua Project II is to highlight the peoples of the world who have the least exposure to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Joshua Project II seeks to accomplish this through information...Read The Full Article

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Kids Korner Other

Kids Korner

Changing Your Attitude and Actions to Involve Kids in your Missions Outreach

We hear new stories almost every day, coming from all over the globe, bearing evidence that mobilizing children for mission provides both challenges and rewards. Many voices are speaking out for...

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Training World Christians Other

Training World Christians

Bringing Hope to a Culture of Despair

General Education requirements are a chance to grow.

“If any student in this class tries to argue that the Bible had any impact on history whatsoever,” warned my Harvard-educated professor,...

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Trusting the Source - Not our own resourcefulness Trusting the Source - Not our own resourcefulness Feature
Further Reflections

Trusting the Source - Not our own resourcefulness

It was a few weeks before the end of the school year in 1980, and my first mission trip was just ahead. I was heading to Southeast Asia, and the money for the flights was due that week. While I...

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