July 2006 By Karen Liew A Christian Dance Fellowship performance. Christian Dance Fellowship of Malaysia (CDFM) began in the late 1970s when a Christian woman, Mary Jones, had a vision to start a revolution of taking dance and creative movement and giving it back to God. She and several others were instrumental in pioneering the […]
Release from the World Evangelical Alliance European Evangelical leaders were challenged to live out their “true identities” as “Christian nobodies” by becoming God’s catalysts for change. “Christendom is dead, and thank God,” said Gordon Showell-Rogers, general secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance, during the closing session of the joint EEA, European Evangelical Missionary Alliance (EEMA) […]
September 2006 By Peter Brierley Although churches can grow in numbers whether they have a pastor or not, a greater proportion of churches report growth when they have a pastor (sixty-eight percent) than when they do not (thirty-seven percent). This is one result of a detailed 2003 report from the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches […]
April 2006 By Dallas Anderson In the time that it will take you to read this sentence, the world’s population will grow by eleven people. According to the United States Census Bureau, 141 people are born every minute, meaning that over 200,000 people are born per day for a total of 6.2 million people […]
By Sandra S. K. Lee Members of the Lausanne Theology Working Group met to discuss “following Jesus in a broken world.” The Lausanne Theology Working Group convened its conference, “Following Jesus in Our Broken World,” 12-17 February 2007 in Limuru, Africa, in partnership with the World Evangelical Alliance Theological Commission. This was an agenda setting […]
May 2006 By Justin Long FEATURED UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUP Eastern Malay Water is required for life, and fortunately the earth has a lot of it. Unfortunately, most of it is saltwater, unusable for consumption. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Environment Programme, only 2.5% of […]
January 2006 By Stephen Goode Arriving to help victims of natural disasters Youth with a Mission (YWAM) teams have been working in war zones, crisis and natural disasters for the past twenty-six years. However, nothing has impacted us more than the 2004 tsunami. A red flag in Aceh was a sign to the military or […]
April 2007 By Adrian de Visser I am deeply appreciative of the work that was done by true and genuine missionaries who worked for the good of the Sri Lankan people, above all with a sincere motivation of saving the lost and building God’s kingdom. My appreciation, however, does not stand in the way of […]
February 2007 By Mark Kolo and Hannah Ibanga Virtually every tribe in Gambia can be described as unreached. Gambia, a small country in West Africa with a population of 1.4 million people, had its early contacts with the gospel as far back as two hundred years ago when the Anglicans and Methodists arrived on […]
By J. Smith On the sixth day of the sixth month of the year 2006 we gathered to pray, worship and celebrate communion together in our home in Beijing with Chinese and foreign brothers and sisters. We desired to seek ways to help mobilize the Chinese Church for Great Commission work. We wrestled with many […]
March 2007 By Mimi Haddad, Chelsea Dearmond and Mary Ann Nguyen The gospel partnerships of men and women on mission fields today may seem unprecedented to some. Yet history is filled with examples of men and women using their gifts together, advancing the kingdom throughout the world. In fact, many of today’s evangelical leaders stand […]
March 2006 By John Tucker Participants at the October 2005 Fellowship of Short-Term Mission Leaders Conference. Imagine a place where a leader can participate in the development of his or her ministry skills while equally focusing on the refreshment of his or her soul. Imagine a place where networking occurs, ideas are born and excellence in mission […]
March 2007 “For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one […]
June 2006 Community and fellowship are vital to having Christ-like relationships. Because it has been used as an oppressive means to promote self-gain and empowerment at the expense of others, leadership almost carries a negative connotation in Africa. This has resulted in a lack of trust and commitment to authorities. This is increasingly evident in […]
