Editorial

Dear Friend,

I am awed, a bit shaken. Ending yesterday, Sunday the 12th of October, was an event in Pasadena, California that should rightly have overshadowed all the annual Tournament of Roses parades and Rose Bowl games put together. Why? Never before in history has the commutative impact of the 2 Gospel on the entire globe had sufficient influence so as to produce a missinary movement FROM Asia, Africa, and Latin America big enough to warrant a world level meeting of such non Western leaders.

But don't hold your breath to see if TIME and NEWSWEEK mention this Fourth Triennial convention of the Asia Missions Association (for the first time with African and Latin American mission leaders too).

You may not even see this meeting mentioned in the main evangelical news media, TV, radio, or periodicals. Why not? Sure, the Pasadena Civic auditorium has seen bigger crowds, bigger banquets, etc.

Are you surprised that Jesus' birth never made the Jerusalem Daily Times? It was only a handful of wise men from afar.

This time the event was itself the coming together of wise men from the far corners of the earth. Not just wise, not just sensitive to God's agenda. These men are prime movers in a dimension that 2,000 years has proven to be the most magnificent enterprise in human history, more influential than any other.

It certainly is not "trivia" to ask why only a handful of wise men showed up at Jesus' birth.

It is not trivial to ask why this meeting was so ignored by self important American society.

Hey, folks: in both cases a nation was about to die because it "did not know the TIME of its visitation." Pasadena America entertained angels unawares! I really believe it!

It just occurs to me (please don't read too much into this) that our financial "problems" here at the Center are mainly a reflection of the fact that not enough Americans are concerned about the Countdown of History and the projects that are vital to it. But God did help us scrape through the Oct 1st payment (see page 14).

Thanks for your faithfulness.