Asia today is a vast continent consisting of fifty nations, with 3.7 billion people making up sixty-one percent of the world’s population. They consist of thousands of diverse ethnic groups, speaking as many different languages, with a multiplicity of cultures, some of which go back to antiquity. What Has God Been Doing in Asia? Over […]
Which people groups are the least reached of all on our globe? The purpose of developing statistics and people profiles on all the ethne of our world is to carry out our commission to make disciples of all nations. If a group has no known followers of Jesus, no scripture in a language they understand […]
Robyn Claydon with a Zulu princess/evangelist. Sometimes when we begin a ministry, that ministry evolves in ways we never expected. When I became the Lausanne Senior Associate for Women in World Evangelization (a mouthful whenever I am introduced!), my aim was to build up a network of Christian women around the world and encourage […]
Workers in Bulgaria The Early Years of Revival Growing up in Communist Bulgaria was an experience. With all that was going on, it was extraordinary to witness the change of a political regime that we once thought would last forever. Bulgaria was not spared the winds of change that were blowing in Eastern Europe in […]
“These women can change the world!” The East German tour guide in the Wartburg, the castle where Dr. Martin Luther translated the Bible into German, was impressed with the international group of women who had come together 9-16 June 2007. “I have never ever seen a group like this,” she commented. “I can feel the […]
Sixty-seven delegates representing every continent attended the 5th International Lausanne Researchers’ Conference in Melbourne, Australia, 8-12 April 2008. Special emphasis was given to research among youth and their spirituality. More than twenty different organisations working in research around the world also presented what they have been working on. Sixty-seven delegates attended the 5th International […]
This month, we look at the people group clusters of southern Asia.1 This region of the world is essentially India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. South Asia is home to seventy-three people group clusters. However, there is a significant population difference: thirty-nine of the groups have populations in excess of 100,000 people (thirty are larger than […]
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 first Christian dance fellowship, now […]
“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from […]
Pastors and church leaders throughout Africa gathered for MANI 2006. Many people are sceptical of Africa. The growing and large number of believers in Africa, though it does boost world Christian statistics, is seen by many as an inch deep and a mile wide. As for mission potential, some expect little from Africa. The […]
From the time of creation, God blessed both man and woman to “be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28). As we continue to read redemptive history from Genesis to Revelation, God’s design has been for all of creation, and both men and women specifically, to be filled with the knowledge […]
Millions in China need to hear the gospel. Over 140 years ago, Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (now OMF International), wrote a small book entitled China, Its Spiritual Needs and Claims. The book introduced the Chinese people to the Western world and sought to mobilize more prayer and workers to reach […]
From the ministry of Jesus Christ and the early Church, it was clear that the gospel message was intended not only for the transformation of individuals, but entire communities. It was in the context of community that lives were transformed and also for transformed lives to transform entire communities. It was in communities of faith […]
Aristotle viewed communication in relationship to three points of reference: speaker, speech and audience.1 Based on his view, a simple hypothetical assumption about communication can be developed: SPEAKER →→→ SPEECH →→→ AUDIENCE In reality, communication is a more complex process because the truth communicated does not travel in a vacuum before the audience encodes the […]
