From the Director

Dear Reader,

How can I put it courteously? Whoever you are, just about, I feel sorry for you. That is, I don't see how you could possibly appreciate your job as much as I do mine.

I am surrounded by the most wonderful people. Keen, smiling, hard working thrilled, loyal, long suffering, profoundly devoted to the Lord. How, where on earth could I join a nicer team? Our people are human enough to be hurt, spiritual enough to forgive, big enough to be working basically "for the joy that is set before us." Would you like to join us? I think I sense now what Jesus was talking about in Mark 10: 29 30... I had one house, now we have 85, etc.

But all this is in deep jeopardy. From a purely business standpoint, the carefully compiled data across the page shows our biggest jump in net worth to be in the past 12 months. Our indebtedness is now only 54% of our assets. Yet, we have to dig out of this temporary crisis. But, we have to do more than that.

We believe the more important goal is the frontier prayer movement called the Frontier Fellowship. That will, I believe, resolve not only our short term crisis but the $6 million payment coming up in 2 years (see diagram).

That is, we seek 40,000 new prayer members by December 31st. That goal, if formally promised by October 15, will be the basis on which we can receive advances to resolve our immediate crisis (see news release, p. 6).

Next year, then, there is time for a lot more organizations to join and it is reasonable to hope for 10,000 churches reached via 50 collaborating organizations. However it could well run higher. Our goal is still to enlist a million people. Under the Frontier Fellowship program that million (including you?) will constitute a praying backbone of daily aware people who will create the crucial climate for the next, final mission era.

Once more, WHY? Because 45,000 American missionaries will retire in this decade; that number plus an additional 150,000 are essential if our country will do its part and escape God's judgment for withholding our blessings from the rest of the world.

To do this will require Americans to give five times as much as they do for pet food instead of 1/5th as much and this change REQUIRES a million daily aware Frontier Fellowship participants.