July 2007

A consensus on the importance of evangelism and the need to eliminate domestic poverty marked the official formation of Christian Churches Together (CCT) meeting 6-9 February 2007 in Pasadena, California, USA. The CCT is composed of thirty-six churches and national organizations from virtually all US Christian groups who have been seeking to come together for […]

By Paul Eshleman When we speak of world evangelization, we look at the macro strategies that must be employed so that all the peoples of the earth have an opportunity to: Hear the gospel         In their “heart” language Near where they live     With access to a healthy indigenous church To see this […]

By Laurie Fortunak In a country where nearly ninety-two percent of the one billion plus people profess to be either Hindu or Muslim, Christians in the nation of India are working hard to get the gospel message out to those who have never heard. One of the ways this is being done is by integrating […]

By John Edmiston [Cybermissions: The intentional front-line cross-cultural use of computers and the Internet to facilitate the Great Commission.] The Internet is being used worldwide to spread the gospel. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN can help hundreds of millions of people who are interested in searching for faith to find the gospel. […]

By Glenn Carlson For the first couple of decades following its founding in 1959, TransWorld Radio’s German sister ministry, Evangeliums-Rundfunk (ERF), based in Wetzlar near Frankfurt, kept fairly close to the extended family’s radio-only mode. However, with the advent of VHS tape distribution in the 1970s, ERF slowly edged its way into video production and […]

By John Lindner A coalition of volunteers from American mission agencies and mission-minded churches is planning a conference in June 2007 that will incorporate speakers from the Majority World as well as from traditional American mission agencies. The Coalition On Support for Indigenous Ministries (COSIM) is planning its 11-13 June 2007 conference at Wheaton Bible […]

By Jim Green “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.  And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20)   […]

By Greg Forney HIV/AIDS is a modern-day plague marching nearly unimpeded across the face of the African continent. It threatens peace and stability as it wipes out entire generations, leaving millions of orphans in its wake. The statistics are daunting. Over 39.4 million people in Africa have HIV/AIDS, including 2.2 million children under the age […]

By Rebecca Barnes Abstinence is working in the fight against AIDS in Africa. Findings which have appeared controversial, contradictory or politicized to both mainstream media and secular aid agencies continue to show that the “Abstinence, Be faithful or use a Condom” (ABC) promotion in places such as Uganda, Rwanda and other African nations is slowing […]

By Brian Considine During the 2004 Lausanne Conference in Pattaya, Thailand, the study group meeting to discuss holistic mission turned their attention to the AIDS pandemic as the most urgent of world concerns needing the attention of the Church. The group examined eleven issues that overlap and interconnect with the global AIDS pandemic. What was […]

By Carl Moeller North Korea, which tops Open Door’s World Watch List of countries where persecution of Christians is the worst, was one of the countries spotlighted during the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church 13 November. The communist country has topped this list for three straight years. However, thousands of churches around […]

By Robson Pereira Life for a person living below the poverty line is short. This is the terrible conclusion one can reach by looking at indicators concerning human development.1 To many evangelists, this might produce a sense of powerlessness. People are starving, suffering and dying everyday. Misery has been among us for a long time2,and […]

By Adrian de Visser Aristotle viewed communication in relationship to three points of reference: speaker, speech and audience.1 Based on his view, a simple hypothetical assumption about communication can be developed: SPEAKER  →→→  SPEECH  →→→  AUDIENCE In reality, communication is a more complex process because the truth communicated does not travel in a vacuum before […]

Overview “God, gold and glory” was the rallying cry of the Spaniards who went to the new world. God was the motivator for many Jesuit missionaries, and that put them in conflict with those who came to take the gold and enslave those who needed God. The original inhabitants were decimated by European conquests and […]