July 2007 By Adriaan Adams A group of younger people in South Africa is seeking to see ministry training take on a new dimension. Early in 2003 a group of young people in South Africa came together and shared their frustrations in ministry with one another. Through these discussions and previous research they came […]
July 2007 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 […]
Church leaders, educators, mission administrators, medical ministry personnel and missionaries from five continents will meet 3-5 April 2006 for the World Gospel Mission Vision Summit in Mexico City to discuss how to implement internationalism for more effective global outreach. According to Dr. Hubert Harriman, president of the 96-year-old interdenominational mission agency, re-structuring needs to be […]
By Todd Nettleton “It must be understood that there are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far too great. Read >> Persecution of Christians in the Muslim World By Patrick Sookhdeo While most Muslim states have signed United Nations declarations on human rights, they usually add caveats […]
AROUND THE WORLD: North Korea Tops World Watch List for Sixth Year For the sixth straight year, North Korea tops Open Doors’ World Watch List, which lists where persecution of Christians is the highest. Rounding out the top ten are: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Maldives, Bhutan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Laos, Uzbekistan, and China. Islam is the majority […]
August 2006 By Grant McClung Only the coming of the power of the Holy Spirit to those who are witnesses for Christ makes the work of evangelism possible. Evangelism has been the first priority from the very outset of the modern Pentecostal/Charismatic movement. The historical self-image in the “Pentecostal/Charismatic story” is that we were raised […]
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By Doug Birdsall Instructing younger leaders on leadership is vital to world evangelization in the twenty-first century. Read >> THEMED ARTICLES: Nigerian Church Takes the Gospel Back to Jerusalem with Vision 50:15 By Timothy Olonade Vision 50:15 seeks to mobilize fifty thousand Nigerians over the next fifteen years to take the gospel back to Jerusalem. […]
June 2007 By Laurie Fortunak It is often said that “to be Aceh is to be Muslim.” The Aceh people, who live on the northern tip of the island of Sumatera in the province of Aceh, are strict Sunni Muslims and have been very instrumental in spreading Islam throughout Indonesia and other parts of Southeastern […]
By Greg Forney It would take more fingers than I have to count all the times one of my boys has fallen down and skinned his knee, arm or other appendage. In more serious crashes (meaning it involves crying and an initial hysteria that cannot be soothed by words or hugs), the only possible cure […]
By Lon Allison The resource-rich Church of the North must distribute its wealth to the resource-poor Church of the South. Read >> THEMED ARTICLES: The Role of Partnership in Oral Evangelism: A Case Study in India By S. D. Ponraj Reaching the seventy percent non-literate oral population in Bihar State, India has always been a […]
News Briefs AROUND THE WORLD: WEA Joins with TOPIC The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) announced TOPIC (Trainers of Pastors International Coalition) as its new global partner to work closely together for their common commitment to pastoral ministry. Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe, head of WEA, welcomed TOPIC and explained the meaning this new partnership holds. “The local […]
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