Attila’s Story: Sharing the Gospel with the Deaf Community in Hungary Attila first began to seek the Lord in 2004 when a number of the Deaf Hungarians in Budapest began to talk about the people who were followers of Christ. These individuals were not doing the traditional church routine; instead, they were experiencing changed lives. […]
Students from around the world come to Redcliffe College to study missions and church planting. Nelleke and her husband Maarten are teachers from the Netherlands. Along with their four children, they have spent the last two years at Redcliffe College, Centre for Mission Training, in Gloucester, United Kingdom, preparing for church planting in Europe. This […]
Bekele Shanko was born into a rural Ethiopian family. Bekele’s father worshiped Satan, was addicted to alcohol and abused his three wives. Following in his father’s footsteps, young Bekele was officially dedicated to a lifetime of Satan worship by the age of four. But God had another plan for Bekele. With no church or Christian […]
ABC111.net and Trans World Radio-Asia Seeks to Help Thousands of Visitors Many visitors to the ABC111.net website need help with their English. Below are only a few examples of the needs TWR-Asia is facing: “Today I was scolded by my private English tutor. She said I did not pay serious attention to her. I often […]
Schools and training programs are blooming in a colourful kaleidoscope of diversity in models, methods and practice. When the majority world mission movement was emerging and we still spoke of “new sending countries,” a prevailing attitude was mildly perceptible: “We won’t make the mistakes that Western missionaries made because we know what it is like […]
Leadership development needs to be a core methodology to produce strong Christian leaders today and in generations to come. Everyone wants to know the secret when it comes to developing successful leaders. One can find books, television interviews, magazine articles and blogs which chronicle the elements of long-term success in developing leaders. Even the most […]
The biblical record—from the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden in Genesis (3:23) to the magnificent vision of the Apostle John, who is exiled on the Island of Patmos in Revelation (1:9)—reveals a profound interconnection between human mobility or dispersion and the unfolding of salvation history. The same link is manifest […]
The Internet is the fastest growing media form in the history of the world. Ten years ago there were only a few million users worldwide, mostly in developed Western nations; today, more than one billion people access the World Wide Web. Although it is estimated that the United States leads with nearly two hundred million […]
Christians in Bihar State are seeking to reach the more than seventy percent non-literate oral population with the gospel. The Challenge Reaching the seventy percent non-literate oral population with the gospel in Bihar State, India has always been a problem. Indeed, of the ninety million people who live there, only 0.06% are Christians. For years […]
George Otis Jr. speaks at the Institute of Campus Revival and Awakening. Recently I had a telephone conversation with Gary Stratton, vice president of Christian Formation and Student Development at Crown College in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, USA. Gary attended our first Institute of Campus Revival and Awakening and commented, “Even at Christian colleges we do […]
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? If we assume any given missionary team can mentor a local church planting movement that will impact at least […]
I have had the privilege for over ten years of working in various capacities with Gospelcom.net, the Internet outreach of Gospel Communications International (GCI). It has been a joy to watch individuals and ministries take hold of this technology and develop creative ways to share the good news of Jesus Christ via the Internet. GCI’s […]
Introduction The mention of the word “postmodernism” evokes the notion of pluralism, where anything goes, since the concept of truth becomes relative. This then poses a real challenge to the Christian “one-way” method of salvation, where the Bible clearly provides evidence of Jesus asserting, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one […]
Overview The seven countries of Northeast Asia are lands humming with action. China, Japan and South Korea have economies that are growing at rates that almost defy imagination. The twenty-first century could easily be the time when Korean and Chinese missionaries take the lead in reaching the world for Christ. Presently, Korea is the second […]
