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At the Center - Farewell to Ernie Heimbach
…"...he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks." From time to time, we lose people from the U.S. Center for World Mission. We get to know them, work alongside them, sense their heart for reaching…
What is a Religious Order?
…Down through history organizations other than local congregations have served crucial purposes within the church of Jesus Christ. For many years the U.S. government did not recognize Protestant mission societies in the same terms as they did Catholic orders. Key organizations—Wycliffe Bible Translators, Campus Crusade for Christ and SIM International—are…
Counting Every Soul on Earth
…Until the Rev. Dr. David B. Barrett realized his pioneering mission, many important questions about the world's religions could not be answered. Is Christianity really growing? What percentage of the world's population is atheistic? What percentage is Jewish? Muslim? Barrett believed that the answers to these and similar questions should…
The Bible, Reformation and Modern Missions
…This three-page article presents what may seem to be a new perspective on the Bible, the Reformation, and Missions, and provides the basis for the unusual theme of this whole issue. I learned in Sunday School that "Jesus died on the cross to save me from my sins." I accepted…
Pressing Forward to AD 2000
…Expectations were high as 314 mission leaders from 50 countries descended on Singapore’s Amara Hotel during the first week of 1989. But if these participants in the Global Consultation on World Evangelization by AD 2000 and Beyond had high hopes, it was because consultation organizers and promoters had set the…
Midwife Missionary or Missionary Midwife?
…Moussa asked me to come to his home and see Rahila, his wife, who had just given birth. He was worried about the baby, who was crying inconsolably. He has four wives and at least 18 living children. One day I asked how many of his children had died. Five.…
The Storyline of History
…Too often we ask the wrong question: “What is God’s will for my life?” That question is very self-centered. It’s about you and your life. The right question is “What is God’s will?” Period. And then “How can my life best serve that?” To glorify God’s name, you must understand…
Staying Home
…Bartolomej, and I met for coffee, it was clear that he was under a lot of stress. Severe stomach cramps, sleeplessness, and anemia had taken its toll on him physically and spiritually. The time he took out of his busy work schedule to sit and chat over coffee was one…
Decades of Faithful Service
…MF—How did it all start? Share a macro view of your story, who you are and how you and Art started in missions. Dot—Art and I were both students at Houghton College when we married during the summer between our sophomore and junior years. We both were praying for…
The Bride
…What would you think if you heard people making fun of a bride? Imagine they were detailing her failures…and this was happening years after she got married! Her husband dearly loves his bride. He can see her shortcomings too, better than anyone else, but he loves her so profoundly that…
Jesus’ 2000th Birthday
…We applaud efforts being made to stage a massive celebration of the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. A Christian dentist in the California bay area was the first I knew to come up with that idea. Now several others are taking it up, including a brilliant younger…
The Birth of a Movement
…Birth phase—Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan movement He went out half-naked in his hair-shirt into the winter woods, walking the frozen ground between the frosty trees; a man without a father. He was penniless, he was parentless, he was to all appearance without a trade or a plan or…
From a Question to a Calling
…In January 2009, my husband Brad and I were living in Chennai, India where I was working as an attorney for an international human rights organization. Throughout our previous year there, friends visited on short-term mission trips and told us that while in remote villages of South India, they learned…
Birth of a Movement
…Ralph Winter played a key role in the birth of Theological Education by Extension (TEE), while on his first assignment as a Presbyterian missionary in Guatemala (1956–1966). He and his family were assigned to a post among the Mam Indians, one of the poorest of the Mayan people groups in…
Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board
…The Southern Baptist Convention--the largest US denomination with 37,000 churches and 14 million members--is refocusing its enormous missions potential and energy into frontier missions and reaching the unreached peoples by the year 2000. Keith Parks, President of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, returned recently from a mountain retreat with…
Life Begins at 70
…They had often told one another that, when they retired, they would go where the Lord led. But if it hadn't been for some unusual promptings, one wonders what might have become of those promises. Two years ago Barney Mcclain would not have thought it possible that he should be…
Six Spheres of Mission Overseas
…What are all those thousands of missionares doing? What would you do as a missionary? Do they try to change peoples’ behavior? Their homes? Their drinking water? Teeth? Understanding of science? Of God? Knowledge of English? Yes, yes, yes—and their income, too. But, do missionaries try to change people? Do…
Editorial Comment
…I have very good news and some bad news this time. Good News The best news--which many find hard to digest--is the simple truth of the diagram we continue to display on the cover and at the bottom of this page (with an explanation on page four). To believe it…
Digital Opportunity in Missions Work
…All Bible verses quoted are from the English Standard Version (ESV). After Roman roads and the printing press, digital opportunity, represented by smartphones and internet connectivity, provides perhaps the greatest opportunity to date of finishing the Great Commission task. Paul Rattray shares learnings about the reach, relationship, and resourcing…
Spirit-Led First Steps Birth Movements with Essential DNA
…VIJAY ’S PRAYER WALKING JOURNEY LED him to a town where he was not known. He went there because the people were part of an unreached group that he wanted very much to see reached. But as he walked around, he got nothing but unfriendly stares. “Who are you?” challenged…