After serving for the past eight years in South Africa, Jonathan Wilson will be serving as executive director for World Team Canada. Born in the United Kingdom, Wilson was a missionary kid for seventeen years in Papua, Indonesia. In South Africa, Wilson served as Pan African training director and helped establish and coordinate the Marriage […]
In the spring of 2005 I presented a paper at the Midwest regional conference of the American Academy of Religion held at DePaul University in Chicago (USA). The paper addressed factors that contribute to the growth of a contemporary Pagan religion. After the presentation, several in attendance came to me with questions. One question stood […]
Wherever the Church is, regardless of cultural context, it has the universal obligation to be true to Christ and his word. The Church of Jesus Christ is that body of people in any given socio-cultural context who have committed their lives to Christ and who worship and follow him in obedient discipleship, faithfully receiving […]
Purpose and Overview Urban Impact (UI) is a unique ministry that focuses on reaching the 10/40 Window by raising awareness of the need to reach unreached people groups and by evangelizing the unreached people groups who have come to the United States. Urban Impact seeks to evangelize Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs who have come […]
Rwanda is a country deeply scarred by a movement of genocide that just seventeen years ago killed over one million people in one hundred days. Neighbor turned against neighbor and family member against family member. In the midst of this horror, how can there be true reconciliation when trust and forgiveness is still not easily […]
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 […]
