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EditorialOver the last 66 years, no other missions event has had so powerful an influence on the mobilization of students for cross-cultural involvement in missions as the Urbana student mission conventions...
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Feature“What happens when every student in this room makes their primary ambition, their primary plan, their primary dream, the proclamation of the gospel to the nations? When that takes hold in our...
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FeatureEditorial Note: The following is a trascript of an interview with David Platt and Mission Frontiers staff. You can watch the full video here.
MF: Many publishers will not even consider...
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FeatureDavid Howard was a 20-year old sophomore at Wheaton College when he attended the first Student Missionary Conference held in Toronto, Canada in December, 1946. He attended with Jim Elliot, his best...
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FeatureBackground: I first met David Howard at the 1970 Urbana Student Missions Convention held in Champaign-Urbana, when he was serving as Assistant Director of the event and I was a senior in college....
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FeatureEditor’s Note: Steve Hoke first attended Urbana ’67 as a 17-year old freshman at Wheaton College. Since that convention of 5,000, he has only missed two conferences, and has attended in several...
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FeatureA Conversation with the editors of the new book from William Carey Library, Worship and Mission for the Global Church, by Robin Harris, James...
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Raising Local ResourcesRecently an appeal for funds came across my desk and caught my attention. It was an appeal to help build a girls’ dormitory in a rural part of Africa. Obviously girls need an education, and they...
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OtherDid you know that Ralph Winter had a penchant as a youth for re-engineering and re-building firecrackers? Or that one of his main professors during his doctoral work threatened to remove him from...
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OtherLet’s start here: Ethne really isn’t like any other network or conference out there—at least, none I’m familiar with.
I’ve been to a number of mission conferences. Some have been huge, and some...
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In a remote valley in a restricted access nation, I gathered with my Ina partners as we discussed how
to reach the 1.4 million Ina people. I had taught them repeatedly that the only way to reach...
Tags: church-planting movement, cpm, kingdom, unreached
OtherDuring the months of March and April we will be praying for the Eurasian peoples, with special focus on the people of the North Caucaus and the East Asian peoples, with special focus on the Japanese. After hundreds of years of battles for Soul and Soil, the Caucasus nations today remain in a “graceless chasm.” Hence the Caucasus proverb: “When will the blood cease to flow in the Caucasus Mountains? When the sugar canes grow in the snow.” The Japanese of Japan are the world’s second largest unreached people group with less than one-half of one percent of its 127 million people defined as “evangelical”, and barely 2% in Japan even professing "Christian" faith.
Tags: affinity bloc, asia, caucasus, eurasia, japan
Further ReflectionsIt was the fall of 1946. Ralph D. Winter was 22 years old, already a graduate of Cal Tech. About ten years before, he had become friends with Dan Fuller, son of popular radio preacher Charles E....
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