By Bob Goff India ranks high on the list of countries where commercial sexual exploitation of underage girls occurs. With the extreme poverty, religious traditions and societal prejudice toward women, thousands of girls are bought and sold in every state of India. The lenient law enforcement system has allowed for the flourishing trade. Once the girl is […]
By Bob Creson, Jim Green, and Roy Peterson In the Democratic Republic of Congo, André took his translation of Luke 1-3 to a small village chapel to read it to the congregation and get their response. When he finished, the people applauded. One 82-year-old woman commented, “Very good, my son. Today I have understood what […]
By Bob Creson, Jim Green, and Roy Peterson The initial phase of the Luke Partnership accomplishes several important things. First, churches in the language community experience the effectiveness of scripture and scripture-based materials in their mother tongue; a team of trained and experienced Bible translators is prepared for more translation work; and churches and other […]
By Bob Creson, Jim Green, and Roy Peterson In the cluster strategy, representatives from several languages participate in a series of two or three workshops each year. The churches or other partners help select three mother-tongue speakers of each language, often with complementary skill sets, to be trained for initial linguistic work, orthography development, and […]
By Bob Creson, Jim Green, and Roy Peterson The Luke Partnership enables a community to attempt translation work without setting up intimidating, long-term projections for a full-scale New Testament project. “We always consider the option of modifying these initial goals,” says Dr. Katy Barnwell, senior consultant for The Seed Company, “but so far the […]
By Justin Long Dell does this by measuring every aspect of its operation. “When you have basically zero inventory, it’s like draining a swamp—all the stumps start to show,” says Kevin Rollins, Chief Executive Officer of Dell. “The problems reveal themselves, and you can take immediate corrective action to fix them.” Dell is a “metrics-obsessed […]
Download Current Issue Executive Summary PDF Full PDF Version Eurasian Lausanne Consultation By Marina Stetsenko Practicing evangelists, missiologists, church leaders, theologians, business leaders, and media representatives from Ukraine and Eurasia met in Kiev to discuss how to best reach people for Christ. April News from around the World Care and Counsel as Mission: Christian […]
By Doug Birdsall One of the most pressing needs in the Church around the world is the need to bring entire families to faith. Read >> THEMED ARTICLES: Reaching Families from Different Religious Traditions By Tuvya Zaretsky A thoughtful approach to Jewish-Gentile couples and their families may provide valuable insights for reaching couples and families […]
By Justin Long “Perhaps we should build several “pyramids”—moderately large agencies, each with its own particular niche to fill.” Our question from the last issue was: How many pioneer missionary teams do we need to serve the unreached of the world, to help find and raise up the local evangelists who can complete the task? […]
August 2007 By Laurie Fortunak The Kurichcha claim to be superior to all of the other Hindu castes. A very proud people with an extreme devotion to the Hindu faith, the Alambadi Kurichchan of India live in the forested areas of Kerala state in southern India. Thought to be the first migrants to the Wayanad […]
By Todd Johnson (The following was adapted from a plenary briefing given at the Lausanne Bi-Annual International Leadership meeting in Budapest, Hungary 18-22 June 2007.) To understand the status of global Christianity and world evangelization, as we lead up to the 100th anniversary of the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910, we will […]
By Todd Johnson One related and growing phenomenon is insider movements—defined as “movements to Christ where the gospel flows through pre-existing communities and networks, and believing families remain inside their socio-religious communities, retaining their natural identity while living under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the authority of scripture.” Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists around the […]
By Justin Long Perhaps, rather than constructing a “skyscraper” agency, we should build several “pyramids”—moderately large agencies, each with its own particular niche to fill. If a typical agency has about one thousand workers, we would likely need between forty and eighty such agencies. At present, about a dozen agencies with more than one thousand […]
By Paulo Pascoal The Portuguese Evangelical Alliance is one example of the involvement of all denominational families within old Europe. Portugal and its Social and Religious Characteristics Portugal is a nation with more than eight hundred years of history and with ten million inhabitants distributed throughout an area of 92.065 km2. The country is divided […]
