By Kumar Abraham There is a clear difference between missions and evangelism. Missions includes evangelism but is not limited to evangelism. Evangelism could be defined as the sharing of good news of Christ with those who do not believe and calling them to faith and repentance. Missions (which is different from “Mission”) has been defined […]
By Jo Appleton Students from around the world come to Redcliffe College to study missions and church planting. Nelleke and her husband Maarten are teachers from the Netherlands. Along with their four children, they have spent the last two years at Redcliffe College, Centre for Mission Training, in Gloucester, United Kingdom, preparing for church planting […]
By Laurie Fortunak Very few Akto Turkmen have heard the gospel. The Akto Turkmen, who live in the conflict-ridden Akto region of China, are part of the Kirgiz nationality; however, their language and customs are more closely related to Uygur. This ethnic group claims to have originated in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan). Throughout recent years, the […]
By Brian Wintle Who Is the ATA? The Asia Theological Association (ATA) is a body of theological institutions, committed to the evangelical faith and scholarship, and networking together to serve the Church in equipping God’s people for the mission of the Lord Jesus Christ. The ATA was established in 1970 as a direct response to […]
By John Godson “We are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. …What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and noble methods, but men […]
By J. N. Manokaran Historical Context Christianity in India is nearly two thousand years old with the claim that Thomas, one of the twelve disciples, reached the shores of India in the first century. The Protestant mission history begins in 1706 when Bartholomew Zigenbalg reached Tranquebar in India and translated the Bible into Tamil, one […]
Overview The seven countries of Northeast Asia are lands humming with action. China, Japan and South Korea have economies that are growing at rates that almost defy imagination. The twenty-first century could easily be the time when Korean and Chinese missionaries take the lead in reaching the world for Christ. Presently, Korea is the second […]
By Peter Brierley The good news emerging from the 2005 English (United Kingdom) Church Census is that the number of people going to church in England did not drop as much between 1998 and 2005 as it did from 1989 to 1998. Between 1998 and 2005, half a million people stopped going to church; however, […]
By Rob Brynjolfson Schools and training programs are blooming in a colourful kaleidoscope of diversity in models, methods and practice. When the majority world mission movement was emerging and we still spoke of “new sending countries,” a prevailing attitude was mildly perceptible: “We won’t make the mistakes that Western missionaries made because we know what […]
The Spread of AIDS in China The first AIDS case in China was reported in 1985. The following years witnessed rapid growth of the HIV-positive population. Geographically, HIV-positive cases have now been reported in each and every one of the thirty-one provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of mainland China. By the end of 2003, the […]
By Grace Tazelaar Among students in the health professions, the Annual Global Missions Health Conference (GMHC) in Louisville, KY, USA, is quickly becoming known as the “Urbana” of healthcare missions. (Editors note: the author’s reference to Urbana relates to the Urbana Missions Convention, www.urbana.org, held since 1946 by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) Louisville’s Southeast Christian Church […]
CAH (Christian AIDS Services/Association) is an independently-registered association and member of the Deaconry Work of Hessen and Nassau in Germany. It began in 1991 as an outpatient care facility whose workers visited and cared for patients in their homes. CAH is not bound to any denomination but works with Christians from all churches. Its work […]
Every day 14,000 Africans become infected with HIV/AIDS. In an effort to counter the spread of this unrelenting enemy on the continent, international Christian broadcaster Trans World Radio (TWR) and Kerus Global Education have partnered to produce character-based radio programming geared toward helping African teenagers make responsible lifestyle choices. TWR and Kerus agree the best […]
By James Davis For more than two thousand years, the Church has worked to fulfill the Great Commission of our Lord. By 1900, 45.69% of the world was evangelized; by 2000, more than 73.09% of the world has heard the gospel. Yet there are still more than 1.8 billion people who have never heard the […]
