The Episcopal Church and the Church Pension Group (CPG) are collaborating in a historical research project known as the Episcopal US Congregational Life Survey. Congregations were selected at random, and include communities of various sizes in rural, suburban and city locations. Each congregation’s response will provide an opportunity to better understand its participants; its strengths […]
AROUND THE WORLD: Global Prayer Initiative to Launch Annual Day of Prayer for the Poor and Suffering If the leaders of Convoy of Hope’s Global Prayer Initiative have their wish, hundreds of thousands of people will pray every year on 12 December for the world’s poor and suffering. The 12.12 initiative “is a network of […]
Everyone has a story. It is where your people came from and why you are who you are. Mine is a story of nineteenth-century German immigrants who laid hold of the American dream to have our own land and get our children a good education so that they could live at a higher standard than […]
Here, no one has a first name. Here, obtaining a meal is a matter of fighting off rats and buzzards for scraps of rotten produce. Here, employment means chasing garbage trucks, hoping for first dibs on the prized cargo they bring. Here, children die from eating disease-filled scraps. Here, the only aspiration is survival. This […]
St. Louis, the gateway to the American Frontier, will become the gateway to world missions for nearly twenty-five thousand of Christians who attend InterVarsity’s twenty-first student missions convention this month. The theme of Urbana 06 is “You Have a Calling” and it will be held 27-31 December 2006 at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri, […]
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 […]
This is the second installment of a 2-part review of how prayer related to evangelization has increased and changed in phenomenal ways. In the first installment, Hawthorne wrote that in the past two decades evangelicals have not merely prayed more, but have come to mobilize and to organize prayer for world evangelization differently. The most […]
Ninety-nine percent of the Jula of Mali still lack a relationship with Jesus Christ. The Jula of Mali are descendants of the Malinke (Mandingo) inheritors of the ancient Mali empire. By the 1500s the Jula began settling in towns where they often became politically subservient to the kings and chiefs of other ethnic groups. As […]
AROUND THE WORLD: Global Media Outreach Reaches a Milestone For the first time, Global Media Outreach (GMO) saw over one million people indicate decisions for Jesus Christ in a single month. In June 2009, 1,030,581 people indicated either a first-time decision to follow Jesus or a decision to recommit their lives to Christ through one […]
Invitation to the Banquet The spirit of Lausanne has often been summarized by several keywords: network, partnership, and kingdom mentality. Many areas of world evangelization are too big to be handled by a single agency. Collaboration and partnership are, without a doubt, foundational building blocks for world evangelization. At the same time, the center of […]
Over the past few years at conferences and Bible studies I have asked participants what they think about globalization. Sometimes people express frustration that they often hear the word but do not really know what it means. Others laud globalization as a move of God to enable the completion of the Great Commission within the […]
On 1 January 2007, the United Bible Societies began the next stage of an ambitious project designed to bring God’s word into the homes and workplaces of many residents of Côte d’Ivoire who have little knowledge of the Bible. On this date, three radio stations were to begin broadcasting La Bible sur les ondes (“The […]
Working Definitions and Facts “Urban poor” defined: Those living on less than US$1 or US$2 per day (Millennium Development Agenda). Those living with inadequate income, shelter and access to infrastructure and basic daily services. Those who have an unstable asset base, little to no access to their rights as citizens and are voiceless and powerless […]
A coalition of volunteers from American mission agencies and mission-minded churches is planning a conference in June 2007 that will incorporate speakers from the Majority World as well as from traditional American mission agencies. The Coalition On Support for Indigenous Ministries (COSIM) is planning its 11-13 June 2007 conference at Wheaton Bible Church in Wheaton, […]
