Claiming to be descendents of Ham, Noah’s son, the Afar (Danakil) of Ethiopia have had a very turbulent history. The Afar are a proud people, valuing power and prestige, the latter which many times comes from killing one’s enemies. Other groups of Afar can be found in Djibouti, Somalia and Eritrea. As the Arabic word […]
The German theologian Helmut Thielicke once commented, “The Gospel must be constantly forwarded to a new address because its recipient is repeatedly changing his place of residence.”1 This is a very challenging yet true observation about the nature of mission and evangelism. One of the most significant Christian books of our era is Philip Jenkins’ […]
(Editor’s note: This article is also available in English. For the English version, click here.) Introducción Una de las primeras cosas que debiéramos tener en claro siempre que hablamos de evangelización es que ella representa mucho más que una mera técnica de transmisión de ciertas “leyes espirituales” o “cosas esenciales que debemos saber.” Ese tipo […]
The Church of God Chaplains Commission recently brought chaplaincy training to Kenya for the first time. Thirty-two pastors met at Discipleship College in Eldoret to learn from church leaders, Dr. Jake Popejoy and Dr. R. Williams. Eldoret is a rural community that has the distinction of producing more champion runners than any other town in […]
From 31 March to 1 April a series of evangelism training sessions was held in El Salvador for the purpose of equipping leaders with new regional evangelism resources to help renew the emphasis on evangelism in the local church. Among those present were leaders from El Salvador and Honduras. Also present were district superintendents, Nazarene […]
Amidst the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary president Chuck Kelley is reminding the church of the opportunity to both proclaim and minister. “We separated the two functions. Evangelism became proclamation and ministry became missions,” Kelley said in an interview with the Southern Baptist TEXAN. Kelley is reminding […]
IBS-STL South Asia (formerly International Bible Society-South Asia) and STL (Send the Light) OM Books India announced plans for a strategic alliance to collaborate efforts to distribute the Bible and Christian resources throughout the subcontinent and surrounding territories. Both organizations have appointed representatives to form a joint task force to review the areas of compatibility […]
The World Council of Churches (WCC) says it is launching a three-year joint study project with the Vatican aimed at developing a shared code of conduct on religious conversion where charges of proselytising can trigger tensions in societies. According to Rev. Hans Ucko, head of the WCC’s interreligious relations office, “The issue of religious conversion […]
An Internet Evangelism and Cybermissions course is being developed in the School of InterCultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, USA. The course designer is John Edmiston of Cybermissions.Org. In this brief report Edmiston answers some questions about the course. Q: What is the course called and what is its purpose? A: The […]
More than seven hundred Christians of diverse cultural backgrounds convened 27-29 April at the Rehoboth Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, for the sixth Ethnic Workers’ Summit, sponsored by the Ethnic America Network (EAN) and a local committee. The summit helped to equip and motivate North American Christians as they seek to reach out to those […]
The deepest desire of those of us in a broken world is to become what we were created to be: whole people in Christ. With its mission of “the whole Church taking the whole gospel to the whole world,” the Lausanne movement desires to first obey Christ in the Great Commission: “Making disciples of all […]
When seeking to connect with younger people, we want to be aware of their values and expectations. As people, we are shaped and formed by a wide variety of forces and influences, including our culture, language, religion, parents, and life circumstances. We are also, to an extraordinary extent, shaped by the era in which […]
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 […]
The grandmother, Rama, was an old acquaintance who had worked as a house-helper for some friends of ours. Her son and daughter-in-law sat with her on the floor of our sitting room—their clothes and hollow faces declaring their poverty, the quiet despair in his eyes highlighting the harsh life of a day laborer. Recently, I […]
