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OtherThe Prayer Siege Continues! Praying Though The Window III Zeroing in on the peoples of the 10/40 Win
October 1993 Praying Through The Window I The 10/40 Window Countries
20 million intercessors from 105 nations joined in prayer for the 62 countries of the 10/40 Window. Teams from 32 countries...
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OtherMissions in a Suitcase
Visalia E-Free Church Shares Their Secrets for a Successful People Group Adoption
When most people prepare to travel to another part of the world for a mission trip they pack a suitcase. When people at the Evangelical Free Church of Visalia, California want to take a mission...
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OtherGCOWE Launches the World into the Final Push for a Church for Every People by the Year 2000
With growing global momentum in reaching the unreached peoples, 3,930 delegates from 135 countries gathered in Pretoria, South Africa on June 30th for the opening session of GCOWE ’97 at Hatfield...
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OtherGCOWE: The Process of Partnership
Development Moves Forward
The Gospel is all about restored relationships. And through partnership we can embody the message, by being restored not only to God, but also to one another. At one of the consultations at GCOWE...
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OtherGCOWE Mission Executives Meeting
The Dream of William Carey Becomes Reality
The largest global meeting of mission executives in 87 years and the most representative in history.
William Carey, in 1806, thought that it would be a good idea if all of the missionaries in the...
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OtherThe Life of a Partnership Facilitator Is It a Role That You Could Fill?
An Interview with Three People Who Have Filled This Role and What They Have Learned
Recently Mission Frontiers gathered together three individuals who have been filling the role of a Partnership Facilitator, sometimes called a Non-residential Missionary or Strategic Coordinator...
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FeatureThe Southern Baptists Restructure to Reach the Unreached Peoples
An Interview with Jerry Rankin, IMB President and Avery Willis, Senior Vice President for Overseas Operations
The largest Protestant denomination in the world, the Southern Baptist Convention, with over 15 million members, is going through a renaissance of mission strategy and structural change that is...
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OtherOf ‘Jesus mosques’ and Muslim Christians
Are mosques for Muslim believers in Christ a form of syncretism, or is God doing something we need to take off our cultural blinders to see?
They leave their shoes at the door, and ritually wash their hands, feet and heads. They kneel on mats in unison and bow their heads to the ground. They recite chants in Arabic, pray five times a...
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FeatureMission Training File
Global Consultation Commencing; Training Alliance Catalyzing; ACCESS Conference Coming; WCF Finishes
Global Consultation Commencing
Over 250 Presidents and Academic Deans (PAD) of theological institutions representing 53 nations gathered for three days to consider how they can be vitally...
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OtherYou CAN Make a Difference!
You probably know the figures: On average, U.S. believers spend less time praying for missions each year than they do watching the commercials in a single hour-long TV show; and they give less to...
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OtherKids Korner
Greetings! As always, new materials for missions teaching are becoming available. Check these out:
**The following four are available from Bethany House Publishers. Call toll free to order:...
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OtherWhat Color is Jesus? - or - How Can We Present Jesus to a New Culture Without Bringing Our Own?
When I was a kindergarten-aged Sunday school student, I can remember my teacher handing me a piece of paper and some colors and asking me to draw a picture of Jesus. My church was not one to have...
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