This article is in response to the EMQ article "Why I Don't Pray for China to Open," by Ralph Covell, January 1995.

Now that Eastern Europe is being flooded with American missionaries, the expectation is that China will be the next country to open. China is top priority on my daily prayer agenda, but I do not pray for her to open.

Like a catastrophic earthquake, tiny Rwanda has shaken the world missions community to its roots.

Reading current missions literature, you might get the idea that Asian, African, and Latin American missionaries have blown past their Western counterparts like an Indy car in a race with an Amish horse and buggy.

This article is a response to the EMQ article “Post-missionary Asia: One Size Doesn’t Fit All,” by Roger Hedlund, January 1995.

Throughout much of Asia, where the world’s least evangelized peoples dwell, the foreign missionary era has for all practical purposes ended. This is cause for our concern, reflection, and response.

Case study from Mexico City shows how it was done.

Spiritually speaking, Austria is a country living in the Dark Ages.

As we approach the dawn of the 21st century, the church faces certain critical strategic questions: Who will be the missionaries of this era? What and where is the mission frontier? What models, patterns, and methods shall we use? What Christ shall we present? And, for us Africans, what is our place in all of this?

This article is a response to the EMQ article, “Manging the Super-Motivated Missionary,” by Meredith Long, January 1995.