July 2007 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 […]
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September 2007 By Joni Eareckson Tada Disabled people in most parts of the world struggle to survive. Sadly, their needs are often overlooked or even ignored by the local church. In South America, a woman with cerebral palsy has been lying in bed for seven years in a back bedroom of a cinder-block home. In […]
December 2006 By Rich Starcher Seven students participated in NEGST’s first completely online course. Online learning is all the rage in many Western countries. Most instructors in African Bible colleges and seminaries are aware of its existence, but few have had firsthand experience as online learners, teachers or course designers. Many wonder whether true learning […]
October 2007 By Celestin Musekura Representatives of ALARM Rwanda met to discuss the Church’s role in remembering the 1994 genocide which devestated that country. As a member of the Global Reconciliation Network and a co-convener of Issue Group on Racial and Tribal Reconciliation at the Lausanne 2004 Forum for World Evangelization in Thailand, I and […]
ALARM Rwanda would like to acknowledge the financial contribution from World Relief Rwanda, which allowed many more leaders to attend. The church leaders promised to meet together again to continue discussing these problems. ALARM will coordinate a follow-up conference in partnership with CARSA (Christian Action for Reconciliation and Social Assistance) and EVM (Esther’s Vision Ministries), who […]
October 2007 By Celestin Musekura ALARM and other organizations have been working to raise up leaders and encourage reconciliation in nations affected by genocide and hate. The 1994 genocide resulted in the death of close to one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Many church and community leaders were killed. ALARM was born to fill the […]
Representatives of ALARM Rwanda met to discuss the Church’s role in remembering the 1994 genocide which devestated that country. As a member of the Global Reconciliation Network and a co-convener of Issue Group on Racial and Tribal Reconciliation at the Lausanne 2004 Forum for World Evangelization in Thailand, I and the staff of African Leadership […]
November 2007 By Carl Moeller As the 2007 IDOP approaches, Christians around the world are organizing prayer gatherings for the persecuted Church. Ostracized in India Six Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) and their families in the village of Nutangram in West Bengal, India, are being pressured to relinquish their Christian faith. The Muslim mosque committee called […]
November 2007 By Pamela Gebauer The Church’s role in ministering to and loving those with HIV/AIDS is unique. The Scope of the AIDS Pandemic Worldwide AIDS killed between 2.5 and 3.5 million people worldwide in 2006, including 400,000 children under the age of fifteen.1 Malaria used to be the leading cause of death in the Developing […]
By Willy Kotiuga Helping the poor without changes in policy is as effective as using a Band-Aid to cure cancer. Conditions for Sustainable Change Working at the grassroots level is essential in dealing with poverty; similarly, efforts to bring about change at both the government and institutional levels are essential to support those working on […]
By Willy Kotiuga In the slums of Bhopal, religion is no barrier to poverty. Bhopal, India: Twenty-three Years after Union Carbide In the early hours of 3 December 1984 forty tons of poisonous gas was accidentally released from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in what has become one of the world’s worst industrial […]
December 2007 By Youssef Samir Through many epochs of the Christian era, vivid discussions about the relationship between worship and evangelism have been commonplace. Some people say the relationship is very weak. They argue that evangelism is an activity directed toward humans as they are invited to hear the message of the gospel, to react […]
By Marcell Steuernagel As John Piper says, mission exists because worship doesn’t.1 It is not difficult to understand the meaning behind this phrase: if proclamation of the gospel is necessary in a certain context, this means that it has not been heard in this context. If it has not been heard, no knowledge of the […]
