The Works of a Local Church and How to Start One
What do we mean when we speak of the "churches" in North Africa and elsewhere on the mission fields of the world?
Category: Volume 17 – Issue 4
Editor’s Analysis: Missions Persuaders
By and large, if you're a missionary motivator, you can take one of two routes. You can either point to the great progress the church has made in fulf…
The Homogeneous Unit Principle: Another Perspective
As one follows the debate on the subject of the homogeneous unit principle, one cannot help but wonder if it is more academic than real. That is, are …
Melanesian Millenarian Movements
The first big question we face when we some to the subject of Melanesian millenarian movements is to know what terminology we should use in designatin…
Wanted: Mission Administrators
The square pegs are missionaries and the round holes are the positions into which they are being forced.
Mission Funding in the 1980s
On April 7, 1981 eight foreign mission agencies met in Chicago under the auspices of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.
If I Could Repeat My First Term
"Salamat datang." These were the first Indonesian words we heard as we set our feet on Indonesian soil in January, 1970. "Happy welcome" came the read…