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Finland (Prayercast)
Government: Parliamentary Republic Major People Groups: Finnish (Finn), Swedish (Swede), Karelian, Somali, Tornedalen Finnish (Finn) GDP Per Capita: $47,300 Literacy Rate: 100% Unreached:...
Finland (World Factbook website)
Area: 338,145 Population: 5,571,665 July 2020 est. Life Expectancy: 81.30 Net migration rate: 2.60 2020 est. GDP (real growth rate): 1.15 2019 est. Internet Users: 4,922,163 For more information...
Finland (WorldBank)
NOTE: The most recent year's information is shown below. Click on the year to see all years for this indicator. COMMUNICATION2022 7,130,000 Mobile cellular subscriptions2022 93 Individuals using the...
Finland flag
·Type: Images ·Collection: World Factbook country flags ·Small size: 88 x 54 px ·Large size: 492 x 302 px ·Categories: Collection :: World Factbook country flags Country :: Finland Partners :: U.S. Government...
Finland map (World Factbook)
·Type: Maps ·Description: Finland (Factbook) ·Map Date: 2007 ·Producer: US Government ·Collection: World Factbook country maps ·Size: 329x353 px, landscape ·Categories: Type :: Maps Continent/Region...
Finland map (World Factbook, modified)
·Type: Maps ·Description: Finland (World Factbook, modified to add country name) ·Map Date: 2007 ·Producer: US Government modified by Joshua Project ·Collection: World Factbook country maps ·Size: 329x353...
First Frontier: Evangelizing the Disoriented
·Type: Maps ·Description: Evangelizing the Disoriented is the First Frontier ·Map Date: 1999 ·Producer: Global Mapping International ·Collection: Omega Model of Mission (WV 2002) ·Size: 8½ x 11...
First Frontier: Evangelizing the Disoriented
·Type: Maps ·Map Date: 2006 ·Data Source: Integrated Strategic Planning Database (SBC-IMB) People group locations from World Language Mapping System, 2006 ·Producer: Global Mapping International ·Collection: Omega...
First Frontier: Evangelizing the Disoriented (BW)
·Type: Maps ·Description: Evangelizing the Disoriented is the First Frontier ·Map Date: 2002 ·Producer: Global Mapping International ·Collection: Omega Model of Mission (WV 2002) ·Size: 8½ x 11...
Fishing Where the Fish Are
·Type: Maps ·Description: Fishing Where the Fish Are ·Map Date: 2001 ·Producer: Global Mapping International ·Collection: Missions Minute (WorldVue 2002) ·Size: 8½ x 11 Inches, portrait...
Fishing Where the Fish Are (BW)
·Type: Maps ·Description: Fishing Where the Fish Are ·Map Date: 2002 ·Producer: Global Mapping International ·Collection: Missions Minute (WorldVue 2002) ·Size: 8½ x 11 Inches, portrait...
Five Pillars (Prayercast)
pray for Muslims practicing the Islamic rituals Over a billion people earnestly strive for Allah’s mercy and favor through the Five Pillars of Islam. Yet fear and uncertainty remain. For more information go to Five Pillars on the Prayercast...
Flor’s Story (Somalia) (Prayercast)
gripped by the beauty of Christ Most of the people in Somalia follow Islam. But no one is beyond God’s powerful and saving hand! Jesus died so that every Somali Muslim would have access to eternal life. "Flor" is one such Somali woman. For...
Flourishing Teams (Missio Nexus)
The health and engagement of missionary staff is absolutely crucial to global evangelization. These cross-cultural workers are key players in what God is doing to reach the nations. Take a journey through some of the findings of GMI’s latest...
Folk Muslim (Prayercast)
seeking protection through rituals, practices, and people The term Folk Islam, or Popular Islam, refers to religious beliefs and practices that are distinct from the more orthodox Islamic beliefs and practices. Folk Islam is often seen as the way...
Following Christ in the Workplace
Bob Doll’s personal testimony gives insightful wisdom about representing Christ through word, deed, and attitude in the workplace. He quotes Billy Graham on the importance of the marketplace: ‘Marketplace will be to the gospel in this century...
Following Jesus (India) (Jesus Film)
Following Jesus (India) (Jesus Film) Following Jesus is a mini series designed to ground followers of Jesus in their faith and equip them to be fruitful members of Christ’s body. Using storytelling techniques and incorporating images and clips...
Following Jesus as his Community in the Broken World of Ethnic Identity
I. Defining Ethnicity II. Ethnes in Modern Thought III. Contemporary Explosion of Ethnic Consciousness IV. Ethnes in the Biblical Story of God’s Mission V. Ethnes in Modern Evangelical Missiology VI. Globalisation, Urbanisation, and the Ethnic...
Following Jesus as the Truth: Postmodernity and Challenges of Relativism
To proclaim Jesus of Nazareth as Lord and Saviour is to make an absolute and universal truth claim. When the church declares that he is the way to the truth about God and eternal life, she is making a statement about reality that is true for...
Following Jesus as Unique Lord and Saviour in a Broken Pluralistic World
Truth claims lie at the heart of every religion. The uniqueness of each religion is framed primarily in terms of its respective truth claims. In their attempts to construct a Christian the-ology of religions, leading theologians like John Hick, Paul...
Following Jesus in a World of Suffering and Violence
Suffering is a fact of life for many people in our world. With advances in our time of global communication and information technology, countless stories of horror, pain and suffering are brought daily into our living rooms. Whenever we switch on...
Following Jesus in Contexts of Power and Violence
I. Followers of Jesus and Christendom II. The Clash of Civilizations III. Following Jesus in a World of Violent Conflict For more information go to Following Jesus in Contexts of Power and Violence on the Lausanne Movement website. The above link...
Following Jesus in Our Broken World
‘The whole church taking the whole gospel to the whole world’. This is the resounding vision of the Lausanne movement. Emerging out of the epoch-making first Lausanne Congress of 1974, Lausanne has functioned as a forum for a wide range of...
Following Jesus in the Globalized Marketplace
I. God and the Marketplace II. Saints and the Marketplace III. The Church and the Marketplace For more information go to Following Jesus in the Globalized Marketplace on the Lausanne Movement website. The above link opens in a new tab.
Forcibly Displaced People
Human displacement results in the creation of strangers, foreigners, migrants, aliens, exiles, nomads, refugees, and servitude. Faith, hope, and love in the Christian faith are shaped on the anvil of displacement. This paper begins with short...
Foreign-Born Population by U.S. County, 2000
·Type: Maps ·Description: ·Collection: Projects 2007 ·Categories: Type :: Maps Country :: United States of America Topic :: Demography Partners :: Global Mapping International Collection :: GMI Map Collections ::...
Forming Disciple-Making Churches and Christlike Leaders
How can churches move beyond simply gathering people to actually making disciples who transform communities? Jason Watson talks with Mark Williamson, leader, coach, and pioneer behind One Rock International and Fresh Expressions UK. Mark shares how...
Forum for Language Fieldwork (SIL)
IL Forum for Language Fieldwork series Coverage: 2007-2017 This series was authored primarily by SIL staff and associated fieldworkers. FLF generally included brief papers on the broad range of topics that inform SIL’s work. These were published...
Fostering Redemptive Conversations at Work
Workplace Evangelism for the 99 Percent ‘The chief agents in the expansion of Christianity appear not to have been those who made it a profession…but men and women who carried on their livelihood in some purely secular manner and spoke of their...
Foundational Paper
Valdir Steuernagel and Maicon Steuernagel This presentation was given at the Lausanne Global Consultation on Prosperity Theology, Poverty, and the Gospel in Atibaia, Brazil, from 30 March – 2 April 2014. For more information go to Foundational...