April 2006 The board of trustees of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) has appointed Ida Mutoigo to the position of director of the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC), Canada. If the appointment is ratified by Synod 2006, Mutoigo, who currently serves as CRWRC’s team leader for East and Southern Africa, will be the first […]
April 2006 The Rev. Walter Altmann, a Lutheran theologian from Brazil, has been elected the new moderator of the central committee of the World Council of Churches, a WCC official said on 24 February. Altmann is president of the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB), a post he has held since the […]
March 2006 By S. Kent Parks Ethnê06, is a global gathering of people, churches and organizations focused on ministering to Unreached People Groups (UPGs). The gathering will be held 7-10 March 2006 and is designed to energize the body of Christ for continuing work among the twenty-seven percent of the world which has little or […]
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March 2006 By S. Kent Parks Ethnê06, is a global gathering of people, churches and organizations focused on ministering to Unreached People Groups (UPGs). The gathering will be held 7-10 March 2006 and is designed to energize the body of Christ for continuing work among the twenty-seven percent of the world which has little or […]
September 2005 Ethnê to Ethnê … This Generation: A Global Gathering of People, Churches and Organizations Committed to Reaching the Unreached People Groups Preparation and planning for Ethne 06, a global movement and gathering of people, churches and organizations committed to sharing the gospel with Unreached People Groups (UPGs), is moving forward. More than 650 […]
By Carl Moeller A record number of Americans traveled to China in 2005. And even more are expected to visit in 2006 and beyond. The World Travel and Tourism Council estimates that tourism spending in China from tourists of all countries will increase about three and a half times by 2014, from US$87 billion to […]
The significance of Internet ministry today and tomorrow calls for an international Lausanne consultation dealing specifically with this issue. If you are interested in being part of such a consultation dealing with both theological and practical issues related to the use of the Internet in Christian mission and other ministry, please contact Birger Nygaard at […]
April 2006 The board of trustees of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) has appointed Ida Mutoigo to the position of director of the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC), Canada. If the appointment is ratified by Synod 2006, Mutoigo, who currently serves as CRWRC’s team leader for East and Southern Africa, will be the first […]
April 2006 As North Queensland experiences its worst cyclone on record, Anglican offices have been shut down, a church hall has been destroyed and a rectory roof has been ripped off. The town of Innisfail was most affected by Cyclone Larry, where houses were ripped apart by gusts of nearly three hundred km/h. “Innisfail is […]
By Laurie Fortunak In a country where nearly ninety-two percent of the one billion plus people profess to be either Hindu or Muslim, Christians in the nation of India are working hard to get the gospel message out to those who have never heard. One of the ways this is being done is by integrating […]
By Wing Tai Leung Asian Christians creatively make use of folk media as well as modern communication technology for evangelization purposes. Evangelism is more than transmission of information, it is also relationship building, giving voice for the voiceless and enabling people to search for their identities. Folk Media Evangelism In Thailand, Chiang Mai University students […]
By Harvey Hoekstra The advent of the “Talking Bible” revolutionizes how we can make the translated scriptures available in audio for non-readers. The “Talking Bible” dramatically increases the value of every Bible translation. It creates new possibilities we could not have dreamed of just a few short years ago. Using the Talking Bible is simple […]
By Glenn Carlson For the first couple of decades following its founding in 1959, TransWorld Radio’s German sister ministry, Evangeliums-Rundfunk (ERF), based in Wetzlar near Frankfurt, kept fairly close to the extended family’s radio-only mode. However, with the advent of VHS tape distribution in the 1970s, ERF slowly edged its way into video production and […]
