This is an article from the August-September 1983 issue: Looks At What God’s Doing

From the Director

From the Director

Dear Believing Friend, for A stone's throw from my office at this very modest second hand campus you'll World find a whole lot of missionaries. They are backMission   eager, joyful, really neat people, with backV tiSSlOfl grounds of extended experience (averaging PAflDEH&CAa%S. over 20 years) in 40 countries and 6'1 different mission agencies. Can you imagine what happens when these missionaries compare notes? Boy, do we get a breathtaking picture! God is constantly improving our vision of what He has done through the missionary movement. That perspective gives us unbelievable HOPE  hope we want to give to you. Just think, even though 16, 750 peoples (sub nations) are still to be reached with the gospel, there is every reason to believe that this can be done, if our Lord tarries, by the year 2000. Here are some of our reasons for hope:

This little understood movement has spawned 851 of all the schools in Africa. Six hundred hospitals in India. Half of all of India's nurses (even though only 3% of the total population is Christian). The largest agricultural experimental station in Asia. The largest women's university in the world. Twice as many Presbyterians in Indonesia that "solidly" Muslim country) as in the U.S. The same in South Korea. Three times as many

Baptists in India as in England. On and on. Few realize the true force of the gospel in today's world. For example, there are 1,000 churches born weekly in Africa and Asia alone. Even in Russia (the Communists gloomily admit). 97 million (that's 36%) of the   ' people doggedly profess Christian faith   against all kinds of handicaps. In China the staggering truth is clearer every day: despite intense opposition during the Communist regime, Christians have grown from one or . two million to easily 50 million. How embarassing to the government! That's over ten times the rate of growth of the general population. MY PAPER IS RUNNING OUT But look, I can't pour the entire story on this one page. This can only be an invitation. A two part invitation: 1) We have already invited you (urgently) to assist us with your one time only Founder's gift of $15. (That's the only gift we'll ever ask of you.) 2) We want also to invite you to send an additional 95 cents to cover the bare costs of printing and mailing three things that can usher you and your family into a new life of HOPE.

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