When U.S. President Obama met with his Venezuelan counterpart in 2009, he received an unusual present: Hugo Chávez presented him with a copy of Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America, a classic survey of five centuries of foreign domination in the continent. An unusual gift from one president to another perhaps, but one that […]
Q. Please tell us about your family. A. For forty years I have been married to a freelance graphic designer. We have three children, two of whom are married. I was a primary school teacher and have worked in this profession for twenty-six years. I belong to the Pentecostal Church and live in northern Germany. […]
(Editor’s note: This article was updated from its first release in MAI’s Trainer Network newsletter article, “Brazil’s Publishing Universe,” May 2006.) The size of Brazil’s evangelical Church continues to soar. Pentecostals (by far the largest evangelical group), together with Presbyterians, Methodists, and many other Protestant denominations comprise about thirty-six million people, or nearly twenty percent […]
(Editor’s note: This summary was written by Lasse Holmgaard Iversen on behalf of the Danish Cape Town 2010 participants.) The 24 January 2011 meeting was the first time the Danish participants who attended Cape Town 2010: The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, met after the Congress. The meeting included the following: Bible reflection […]
The results of the 2005 English Church Census were published in September 2006 in a book called Pulling Out of the Nosedive. The detailed county results are given in Religious Trends No. 6 2006/2007. Both were published and distributed by Christian Research in September 2006. Figure 1 shows the distribution of churches of different sizes […]
Introduction This article intends to present some of the conditioning factors that might have contributed to the current and meaningful membership growth over the last thirty years in one of the evangelical Christian churches in Peru. The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) in Lima has grown from one congregation in 1973, with a membership of […]
A Global God for a Global Village The primary purpose and meaning of the universe is to bring into existence, out of all God’s offspring, an eternal Bride for the Lamb. God so loves this rebel planet that he conspires with the world affairs to graft into his body a multitude from every nation, tribe, peoples, […]
In the 1980s and 1990s, the AD 2000 & Beyond Movement had this slogan: “A church for every people and the gospel for every person by the year 2000 and beyond.” This was a masterful way of both stating the goal while keeping the rallying point somewhat flexible. The problem was that most workers rarely […]
Donald E. Miller and Tetsunao Yamamori. University of California Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California, USA 94704-1012, 2007, 261 pages with accompanying DVD, 24.95 USD(paperback). Are you ready for a “mental image test” using word association? Here is the word: “Pentecostals.” If your first image was that of a lively worship encounter including throngs (or a […]
The wonderful missionary work of house churches throughout the Majority World is no surprise to anyone reading this article. We continually hear reports of rapid church growth occurring through the ministries of such churches. However, when one thinks of house churches that are making an impact for the kingdom, he or she generally does not […]
Northeast Asia is home to fifty-five people group clusters. Of these, just eighteen are larger than one million people in size. These clusters include: People Clusters Population (in millions) Bouyei 3.0 Chinese 1,218.7 Hui 17.2 Hani 1.8 Japanese 127.6 Kazakh 1.8 Korean 72.3 Li 1.8 Miao 9.1 Mongolian 10.9 Mon-Khmer 1.1 Nosu 2.9 Tai 6.0 […]
The response to the gospel outreach ProChrist, organised by an alliance of different local churches, exceeded all expectations. In eight evenings, from 6-13 April 2008, about twenty thousand of the eighty thousand visitors to ProChrist in Poland accepted the invitation to come to faith. That’s one-quarter of the people! The main speaker, Rev. Ulrich Parzany, […]
“Ma’am, there is a 2-month-old infant born in a pushcart to a scavenger family,” Lisa, a gaunt-looking young woman, reported to me after dinner one night in January. She, her husband Freddy, and daughter Claire have lived in the streets of Metro Manila for eleven years. A few nights earlier, after listening to tale after […]
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 I had never understood before.” Hearing and understanding […]
