June 2006 Few people are aware that China is a Bible-producing country, yet over the past two decades, forty million complete volumes of scripture have been produced by the Amity Printing Company alone, not counting Bibles produced for the Catholic market in China. During the recent groundbreaking ceremony for the new Amity Printing Press facilities, […]
June 2006 Aid agencies around the world have mobilized to rush assistance to Indonesia’s island of Java where at least 4,900 people are reported to have been killed and another 200,000 left homeless by a powerful earthquake near the city of Yogyakarta. In Geneva, the global Action by Churches Together International alliance announced that the […]
June 2006 A multi-lingual online database of training courses that will allow evangelical colleges, missionary training organizations, Bible colleges and non-formal training programs to input information about their courses online has been developed. The Evangelical Training Database is available online at www.trainforChrist.org and is searchable worldwide in all major languages. The database is a partnership […]
June 2006 The decision by the two biggest Protestant denominations in France’s eastern Alsace-Lorraine region to form a union of churches will strengthen Christian witness, says a World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) top official. “In the face of gross injustices in the world, the need for people to hear the gospel clearly and the […]
June 2006 In efforts to “make Jesus famous to the next generation of Hondurans,” 274 El Salvadoran youth (ages nine and up) and their leaders traveled to Honduras to minister in eighty-four Assemblies of God churches. The missions trip was known as Transformation Honduras 2006, and took place 8-15 April—the week before Easter. Don and […]
By Norberto Saracco “You are part of the same Church,if you follow the Calvary path,if your heart is like mine, give me your hand and my brother you are.” For decades the lyrics of this song have been sung by millions of Evangelicals all over Latin America. It has been something like a motto hymn […]
By James Kaiser The Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), one of the biggest national alliances of evangelical Christians and organizations in India, has members from nearly forty-five Protestant denominations and more than eighty-eight church-related mission organizations. There are also thousands of individual members. EFI functions with the three-dimensional focus of networking, capacity-building and advocacy. Every […]
By Jan-Peter Graap Millions were impacted throughout Europe during ProChrist 2006. On 26 March 2006, the European-wide evangelistic campaign ProChrist concluded after eight days. From 19-26 March 2006 approximately 1.5 million visitors at the central site in Munich, Germany and at local sites in many European countries were reached with the gospel of Jesus […]
By Kumar Abraham The Bible mandates the spiritual gift of the evangelist (Ephesians 4:11; Acts 21:8). With everything God created, the Bible says, “And God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:10). I am sure he said the same after he gave every spiritual gift. However, the situation with enlisting, equipping, empowering and employing those […]
By John Godson Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit” (John 3:5-6). Prayer is communion with God. It is going into God’s presence to be with […]
By Timothy Huff and Julia Goodhew From 29 March to 1 April 2006 nearly 350 individuals, representing some seventy organizations from across Canada gathered at the Westin Hotel in downtown Ottawa, Canada, to participate in StreetLevel 2006, a conference for people who are passionately engaged in finding solutions to poverty and homelessness Participants represented ministries and […]
By John Edmiston Praying for the Lost Works In 1993 I led a Bible study series with a group of twenty or so rather boisterous university students who asked to be taught about prayer. In the process we had a book for the prayer points. This book contained three columns: Request, Date Entered and Date […]
By Helene NSIN OUM What is World Evangelism? Evangelism is a way to gain unbelievers to God. We cannot evangelize without prayer. Prayer is the key ingredient in evangelism; we must pray before, during and after we tell others about Christ (1 Thessalonians 5:17). Fasting is choosing to remove the distractions, giving the Lord God […]
By Tom Douglas Millions in China need to hear the gospel. Over 140 years ago, Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (now OMF International), wrote a small book entitled China, Its Spiritual Needs and Claims. The book introduced the Chinese people to the Western world and sought to mobilize more prayer and […]
