By Howard Baldwin Ray Bearden When Jesus was in the region of the Decapolis, a deaf man with a speech difficulty was brought to him. After the man’s friends begged Jesus to lay his hand on him, Jesus took the man away from the crowd, put his fingers in the man’s ears, spit and touched […]
By Ron Forseth The mission of Outreach, Inc., www.outreach.com, is to empower Christian churches to reach their communities for Jesus Christ. To do this, we seek to identify and utilize timely and appropriate bridges of relevance by which churches can engage the culture. These bridges are comparable to the redemptive analogies found in cultures around […]
By Tom Newman Twenty years ago, I led a group of young people on a tour through England with the stage show “Toymaker & Son.” After performing on a makeshift stage in a packed room at a local YMCA, I felt inspired to take the microphone and communicate a vision that had been emerging in […]
By Jim Green “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20) […]
By Adrian de Visser Sri Lankan beaches are the most picturesque in the world. Soft sounds of the waves lapping, an endless strip of white, sandy beaches contrasting with deep, blue waters and coral reefs that are home to many types of tropical fish—these are the wonders of the Sri Lankan coast (www.triptosrilanka.com). In December […]
By Durk Meijer A provocative call to radically rethink our communication of the gospel was the central theme of the 2005 International Orality Network (ION) Annual Working Conference held recently in Anaheim, CA, USA. ION participant shares her expertise in storytelling. Two hundred ministry leaders, field practitioners, educators, media producers, pastors and interested lay people, […]
By Justin Long The amount of media evangelism among the unreached really is amazing. The Western world is media-rich, and missionaries worldwide have learned to use this medium very effectively. Audiocassettes and CDs are widely used in some countries. For example, the North Africa Partnership has used tapes with recordings of the JESUS Film for […]
[Cybermissions: The intentional front-line cross-cultural use of computers and the Internet to facilitate the Great Commission.] Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN can help hundreds of millions of people who are interested in searching for faith to find the gospel. In fact, “God” is one of the top online search terms. For the […]
By Martin Johnson Over one and half million people live in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. That is half the city’s population. More than 300,000 people are crowded together in Karagoche, Nairobi’s worst slum. Families live in extreme poverty and struggle to make a living. People are selling things at every corner: small bundles of […]
By Carl Moeller North Korea, which tops Open Door’s World Watch List of countries where persecution of Christians is the worst, was one of the countries spotlighted during the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church 13 November. The communist country has topped this list for three straight years. However, thousands of churches around […]
The Spread of AIDS in China The first AIDS case in China was reported in 1985. The following years witnessed rapid growth of the HIV-positive population. Geographically, HIV-positive cases have now been reported in each and every one of the thirty-one provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of mainland China. By the end of 2003, the […]
By Grace Tazelaar Among students in the health professions, the Annual Global Missions Health Conference (GMHC) in Louisville, KY, USA, is quickly becoming known as the “Urbana” of healthcare missions. (Editors note: the author’s reference to Urbana relates to the Urbana Missions Convention, www.urbana.org, held since 1946 by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) Louisville’s Southeast Christian Church […]
Every day 14,000 Africans become infected with HIV/AIDS. In an effort to counter the spread of this unrelenting enemy on the continent, international Christian broadcaster Trans World Radio (TWR) and Kerus Global Education have partnered to produce character-based radio programming geared toward helping African teenagers make responsible lifestyle choices. TWR and Kerus agree the best […]
By William Sunderland Where were you when the tsunami of 2005 devastated huge portions of Southeast Asia? I was celebrating the birth of Jesus, creator and savior of humankind, on a bright, sunny morning. However, it was not long before I began learning of the tsunami’s impact via reports on television. After listening to the […]
