July 2024

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 […]

Jeerakan (Jeab) Duksukgaew is Thai. Although she was raised a Buddhist, she became a Christian when she was fourteen years old. Now twenty-eight, she works as a translator and secretary at the Greater Grace Church of Bangkok, Thailand, and is in her third year of Bible College. I recently sat down with her at the […]

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 […]

Ì¢‰âÂÒThy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.Ì¢‰âÂå These words from the prayer Jesus taught his disciples express God’s plan and purpose in this world. They bring together in the simplest and most powerful way Ì¢‰âÂÒprayer in evangelism.Ì¢‰âÂå The compelling vision of the Kingdom of God fully realised on earth draws us into a […]

As we consider the missionary pattern modeled by Jesus, and the meaning of his death and resurrection, we face the uniqueness of his person and work. The Lausanne movement that started after the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne I) had a significant impact on the practice of mission around the world. One could […]

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 administratively into eighteen […]

In my communication role for an international, inter-denominational mission organization, I have the privilege of providing communication training for new missionaries who are preparing to serve cross-culturally. Most of the men and women I speak to are trained to do medical work, theological education, children’s ministry, etc.—only a small number are trained in communication and/or […]

Even the basis of our intimacy with the Lord is cradled in how our intimacy with the poor is expressed in our social lives. Photo credit: Esdrianne Cohen A Call to Justice: Reducing Poverty through Obedience “There must, then, be no poor among you.” At least that’s what God told the Israelites in Deuteronomy 15:4. […]

Canadian missionary pastor Oswald J. Smith once said, “We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first one.” After reading an October 2007 article in Evangelical Missions Quarterly, I do not find Smith’s words an exaggeration. Todd Johnson and Charles Tieszen’s article entitled “Personal Contact: The sine qua non […]

There’s been a lot of discussion about what some have called “insider movements.” A number of papers and perspectives have been shared, many of them documented in the International Journal for Frontier Missiology (IJFM) and Evangelical Missions Quarterly (EMQ). The idea seems to have grown from frontier field missionaries and missiologists reflecting on and evaluating […]

  Authentic worship must be preoccupied with God. John was raised in a humanist home. He did not even know the fundamental beliefs of Christianity. As a student, however, he met a radiant, young, Christian woman. He was deeply puzzled as to what was clearly the inspiration of her wonderfully attractive life. She and others […]

“We need help, but we need hope. We need help, but we need hope,” a person living with HIV/AIDS told the ninety participants at the international consultation for the “Bible Engagement in the Context of HIV and AIDS in Africa,” sponsored by the Forum of Bible Agencies International and the Africa Forum of Bible Agencies. […]

Helping the poor without changes in policy is as effective as using a Band-Aid to cure cancer. Conditions for Sustainable Change Working at the grassroots level is essential in dealing with poverty; similarly, efforts to bring about change at both the government and institutional levels are essential to support those working on the frontlines in […]

At the time, it seemed very innovative, and, indeed, odd. Go to worship God in someone’s home? But while the Chinese Home (or House) Church Movement had started in the 1950s as a reaction against the religious clamp-down of the Communist takeover in 1949, and the burgeoning African Independent Churches had been meeting in homes […]