By Leanne Palmer August 2007 Picture this scene… It is a warm, sunny, Saturday afternoon and in this usually sleepy rural village our attention is attracted by squeals, screams and some very unusual noises. Upon closer investigation, we find a group of about fifty people of all ages barking, mooing and making a variety of […]
By Laurie Fortunak Nichols August 2007 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 […]
By John Pellowe August 2007 Churches and parachurches are increasingly seeing the importance of working together. Helping the members of his congregation prepare to share their faith was a dream for Glenn Driedger, pastor of Carman Pentecostal Assembly in Carman, Manitoba, Canada. It is a dream that most pastors share. Yet after six years, Driedger […]
By Tom Elliff August 2007 Few experiences in our lives as Christians can match the joy of seeing a member of our own family come to faith in Christ. When that happens we are both now members of another family, the family of God. As eternity-bound members of God’s family, we can share a level […]
December 2011 By Phileena Heuertz Contemplative activism as a spiritual posture is essential, the author writes. Read Article >> Colorfully Contextualized Evangelism in the Context of the New Testament By Daniel Daesoon Kim Jesus was a colorful evangelist who expected the Church to be creative in implementing colorful evangelistic methods with suitable contextualization. Read Article […]
April 2010 Q. Tell us about your family. A. I am married to a wonderful man, Phil, and have two amazing children: Beth, 19, and Sam, 15. One of our greatest delights is to be together as a family. Having recently come back from leave where we travelled together for three months, we have […]
A woman in a heavy black burqa and veil pauses to look in a shop window selling halal food, prepared according to Islamic laws. Two men pass by, chatting in Arabic as they hurry to a nearby mosque. A typical Cairo street scene? It could be, but this happens to be central London. If your […]
Abdul Khan (not his real name), a Christian well-acquainted with Central Asia, spoke with Deann Alford concerning conditions in Afghanistan shortly after Islamic terrorists attacked the United States on September 11. At the time, refugees were pouring out of Afghanistan, eight aid workers with the German-based Christian relief agency Shelter Now International (SNI) had been […]
December 2006 The general assembly of the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) and the European Evangelical Missionary Alliance (EEMA) recently launched the Polish Evangelical Alliance’s (PEA) “Year of Evangelical Christians in Poland,” with a firm belief that there is still great hope for Christianity in Europe. ”We all have a sense that our spiritually-dark continent is experiencing more […]
For an admission fee of only about 10 cents, even the poor could afford to enjoy Cairo’s 34th International Book Fair last January 17-February 4. The majority of the 3.5 million books, videos and tapes offered obviously targeted Muslim readers. But the event also offered an exciting array of Christian resources in Arabic and English. […]
I remember the day I laced my Reeboks and jogged around the classical Christ Church in New Zealand. What a glorious concept–a Christian community built around a church. The church lay at the center; streets were arranged in such a way that the entire community was tied into the church. Calvin’s Geneva must have been […]
newsmakers Doug Seebeck was named acting president of the Association of Evangelical Relief and Development Organizations (AERDO). Seebeck has been the executive director of Partners for Christian Development (PCD) since 1997. He and his wife live in Grand Rapids, Mich., with their five children. Louis and Susan Sutton were appointed the US directors of WEC […]
Arabs and Jews kill each other with revolting regularity over the land God promised to Abraham. Although not killing people over the land, some elements of Christendom use the media and their pulpits to make sure that we never forget that the land is the main thing. Consequently, evangelism and mission drown in the deluge […]
GLOBAL: Serious investment in the world’s children is essential to overcoming poverty, according to the UN’s most comprehensive children’s study of 150 countries. More than 10.5 million young people die annually, often from preventable causes; an estimated 150 million are malnourished; more than 120 million never go to school, the majority girls. Failure to adequately […]
