March 01, 1983 by

The popular "Five Global Facts" booklet, explaining the frontier missions cause in a brief, simple manner, has been reprinted to fill numerous back orders. More printings are planned to meet the growing demand for this helpful tool in missions mobilization.

Five Global Facts

The first issue of the International Journal of Frontier Mission (IJFM) is scheduled to appear in June 1983. To be published quarterly by the International Student Coalition for Frontier Missions, the IJFM will include papers on theory, theology, case studies and history and a news section to keep readers abreast of the activities of groups committed to fronlier missions. The IJFM supersedes the "Frontierline" and will be edited by Cordon Aeschliman. Aeschliman was appointed at the 1980 International Student Consultation on Foreign Missions, in Edinburgh, to provide such communication tools.

• Also to be published this year is a commemorative volume on both the 1980 student consultation and a parallel gathering of mission executives. Part one of the volume will document the joint sessions of The World Consultation on Frontier Missions and the International Student Consultation on Frontier Missions, Parts two and three will document their separate sessions. An appendix will report on the current work of each organization represented at Edinburgh '80.
• Africa Inland Mission has decided to locate their southwest regional office on the USCWM campus. Rev. Al Miller, regional director, will assume AIM operations on campus April 1.
• Thirty five executives from 28 mission agencies gathered on the U.S. Center campus February 6 8. Primary topic: the Frontier Fellowship campaign. See page 12 for details.
• Dr. Chris Thomas has accepted an offer to become Director of the Institute of Hindu Studies. Thomas, a graduate of union Seminary in Yeotmal, India and the recipient of a C) Miss, from the Fuller Seminary School of World Mission, has served as a missionary among Indians and Chinese in Singapore. He plans to begin on campus duties in June 1983.
• The Board of Directors of Dataserve, a computer services organization, met for the first time February 3. Dataserve offers both hardware purchasing opportunities and software assistance to mission agencies.
• Some 500 college students and, the, youth attended the eighth annual Student Conference on World Evangelization (SCOWE) jointly sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and the U.S. Center for World Mission. See page 16 to discover what happened.

Rev. Harold Kurtz and Laura Dickman, Director end Associate Director, respectively, of the fledgling United Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship (UPFF), visited the Frontier Fellowship National Coordinating Office to discuss plans for the growth of the UPFF. Kurtz and Dickman hope to enroll 100,000 Presbyterians in the Frontier Fellowship movement.