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Editorial Comment

We now have 10,000 copies of Patrick Johnstone's new book,

The Church is Bigger Than You Think!

Ants can't see the picture they are walking on. You can't SEE the global story you are walking...

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MF Behind the Scenes

Mission Frontiers Gets a New Web Site

After many months of planning and work, Mission Frontiers has its own web site, complete with articles covering the last five years. Eventually it will have...

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On Mission With God Feature

On Mission With God

God is on mission. He has been on mission throughout history to accomplish His purpose throughout the earth. Each time we see God in the Bible, He is acting in accordance with His purpose: to...

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Mission Frontiers’ Missionary Attrition Series - Part 1 Feature

Mission Frontiers’ Missionary Attrition Series - Part 1

Excerpts from the book, Too Valuable To Lose

Examining the Faces of Attrition

I well remember the case study of a young missionary family in Latin America. The husband was a missionary kid who...

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Mobilizing Local Resources

Can Foreign Funding Be Used In Support Of Indigenous Ministries?

I am often asked this question by concerned and well-meaning westerners. They rationalize that since westerners have so much more than they need to live on, it only seems right that they support...

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When the Mission Pays the Pastor Feature

When the Mission Pays the Pastor

The wisdom of supporting national pastors with mission funds has been debated for many years. Kenneth Donald challenged the validity of "the arguments for self-support and the indigenous church" as...

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Perspectives Course Revision Completed as Movement Reaches New Heights

A Conversation with Co-Editor Steve Hawthorne

Pasadena

As the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course...

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MF Celebrates 20 Years of Charting the Growth of the Frontier Mission Movement, 1979-1999

Presenting Sample Issues and Major Events for Each of the Last 20 Years

1979

EFMA Exec. Retreat on Unreached Peoples

"A Church for Every People by the Year 2000," first coined by McGavran, Bliss, Gill

Urbana '79, 75% response,

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Mobilization on the Brink of the Next Millennium Feature

Mobilization on the Brink of the Next Millennium

"How do we mobilize this generation for Christ and His Great Commission?"

"It isn't fair!" exploded Aaron, a 22-year old who had been radically redeemed from addictions to drugs and alcohol only...

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Walk Me To The Field Feature

Walk Me To The Field

Bridging the Gap from High School and College to the Frontiers

One hundred years ago, the Student Volunteer Movement shook the nation and placed what would be one of the more exciting bookmarks in Christian history. Some 100,000 students committed to going to...

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Walk Me To The Field Feature

Walk Me To The Field

Bridging the Gap from High School and College to the Frontiers

One hundred years ago, the Student Volunteer Movement shook the nation and placed what would be one of the more exciting bookmarks in Christian history. Some 100,000 students committed to going to...

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This Popular Bible Study Has Touched Millions Feature

This Popular Bible Study Has Touched Millions

Now You Can Be Experiencing God on Mission

Millions of people worldwide have been impacted by the study of the book Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God. The book by Henry Blackaby and Claude King has sold over two million...

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Apostolic Passion Feature

Apostolic Passion

What is Apostolic Passion?

The term "passion" is used to describe everything from romance to hunger pangs. I don't know what it means to you, but for me passion means whatever a person is willing...

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Winds of Renewal Feature

Winds of Renewal

A surge in student-initiated worship movements have elevated God's heart for the nations and forced a number of people to ask, "Could this be the foreshadowing of another Student Volunteer...

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Wanted: Trail Guides Other

Wanted: Trail Guides

The experience of many students finishing college today is similar to arriving at the edge of a cliff. Looking down into the chasm and up to the nice field on the other side, the student becomes...

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Consultation on Student Mobilization Moves to De-Marginalize Mission Other

Consultation on Student Mobilization Moves to De-Marginalize Mission

With 32 Christian workers representing 22 organizations, the November 6-7 Chicago Consultation on Student Mobilization proved to be exceptionally fertile ground for discussion on ministry to and...

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The Great Need for Prayer

By far the greatest need of modern missions is that of united, definite, importunate prayer. This alone will lead the Church in this time of times to lift up her eyes and behold the fields.

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