January 2009

By Michael Smitheram Evangelical Christians in the United Kingdom didn’t need convincing that it was their responsibility to advocate with the poor when the G8 came to Scotland. In the words of the Micah Call, the campaign echoed ‘the call of the prophets and the teachings of Jesus.”1 Film-director Richard Curtis and the NGOs got […]

In Muslim countries where conversion and proselytizing is illegal, cyberspace is an anonymous haven for North Africans to explore Christianity—and a means for the gospel to penetrate a closed society. With Avant Ministries’ assistance, the growing underground church is establishing public cybercafés equipped with pay-per-minute computer terminals. Already popular venues in North Africa, these cyber cafés […]

By Doug Birdsall From Genesis to Revelation, God has revealed himself to his people by his presence and in his word. As we see in Genesis, his word has creative power to bring order out of chaos, matter out of the void, and life out of mere matter. We, being made in the very image […]

By Carl Moeller Christianity in North Korea Untold numbers of Christians are living in North Korea today. Many face daily the possibility of undergoing severe persecution. However, in the midst of this reality these same Christians find great strength in Jesus Christ. One man writes, “As long as we live, we will only serve the […]

August 2006 By Scott Holste and Jim Haney Over the past two decades we have witnessed significant advances of the kingdom. Churches have mobilized their memberships, sending out thousands of new missionaries who have shared the gospel, baptized and discipled believers, established indigenous churches and trained leaders.  The Ultimate Priority—All People Groups Today, God continues […]

August 2006 By Phil Corr On 6 August 1806 an event happened in a Massachusetts (USA) field that would change history. In the lee of a large haystack, five Williams’ College students prayed that the people of Asia would hear and respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This prayer gathering came to be known […]

August 2006 By John Lindner “Partnerships That Transform—Here and There” was the theme of this year’s Coalition On the Support of Indigenous Ministries (COSIM) conference, held 12-14 June 2006 at the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. Seventy-three mission enthusiasts met to share experiences and to learn how to have more effective partnerships. At least […]

June 2006 By Jerry Root I have had the privilege of teaching evangelism for many years. The topic is complex for at least four reasons. First, it is central in the biblical narrative. Second, it is fed by two thousand years of Church history and tradition. Third, there are a variety of ways the good […]

May 2006 By Timothy Huff and Julia Goodhew From 29 March to 1 April 2006 nearly 350 individuals, representing some seventy organizations from across Canada gathered at the Westin Hotel in downtown Ottawa, Canada, to participate in StreetLevel 2006, a conference for people who are passionately engaged in finding solutions to poverty and homelessness Participants represented […]

Read >> PUBLISHER’S MEMO: Church Planting and Evangelism in the Twenty-first Century By Doug Birdsall The interconnected relationship between evangelism and church planting is the hallmark of a healthy Christian community. Read >> THEMED ARTICLES: Evangelism and Church Planting: Implementing the Ministry Multiplication Cycle By Peter Law Using the strategy Jesus employed—of moving people from […]

An Indonesian church By Jim Jacobson On 27 August 2005 Father Iwan Rusbani Setyawan was finishing the 5 p.m. mass at St. Anthony Chapel in Margahayu, a suburb of Bandung in West Java, Indonesia. This is what happened next: “After mass, five men entered my chapel and asked me who had responsibility of the house. […]

By John Edmiston Praying for the Lost Works In 1993 I led a Bible study series with a group of twenty or so rather boisterous university students who asked to be taught about prayer. In the process we had a book for the prayer points. This book contained three columns: Request, Date Entered and Date […]

By Carl Moeller On 1 September 2005, the Indonesian Indramayu local court found Dr. Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti and Ratna Bangun guilty of breaching the 2002 Child Protection Law and sentenced them to three years in prison. The three Christian women were convicted for running a religious education program for children in their community. Islamic […]

March 2007 By Peter Brierley The growth of the Muslim community and the decline of church attendance in the United Kingdom seem of perpetual fascination to the media. When the BBC Sunday programme “Heaven and Earth” chose five key facts about religion in Britain to explore, one of them was: “When would Muslim mosque attendance […]