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Mission Frontiers January-February 2006
Which Peoples Need Priority Attention?The Global Status of Evangelical ChristianityChurches and Agencies Focus on “Finishing the Task”Minimizing the Bible?Reviewing the September-October Mission FrontiersMaximizing the Bible!Read More in the...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2007
God’s Patchwork Quilt: The Peoples of South SumatraUrbana and PerspectivesGod’s Patchwork Quilt: the Peoples of South SumatraThe State of the Gospel in 2006Which Peoples Need Priority Attention?Frontiers of PerspectiveOutside the LinesHow Can We...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2008
God Cannot Lead you on the Basis of Information that you Do Not HaveResponse to Ralph WinterOver 9,400 Days of Prayer… and CountingFind Your Role in MobilizationWhat is Insight?WCF and WCIU in RwandaIs a Ph.D. at WCIU a Part of Your Utmost for His...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2009
What Kind of an Amazing Mission Conference in 1910… Would be Commemorated by four Global Conferences in 2010?Edinburgh 1910 in the Year 2010Mission Collaboration 1910 to 2010A Case for Another Meeting of the Global Network of Centres For World...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2010
Recapturing the Role of SufferingDoes God Have a Purpose For Our Suffering?Recapturing the Role of SufferingFilling Up the Afflictions of ChristThe Other Side of the CrossSuffering By DegreeThe Incredible Progress of the Frontier Mission...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2011
Discipleship Revolution: Avery Willis’ Last DreamThe Key To Discipling All PeoplesAvery Willis’ Last DreamTraining for Trainers ProcessJoining the Discipleship Revolution75 Years as a Disciple-MakerA Passionate Call for Maturity that ReproducesThe...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2012
Can Short-Term Teams Foster Long-Term Church-Planting?Learning from the Mission Field How to Plant ChurchesThe Greatest Blessing Is to Train Others to Start ChurchesShort-Term Trips, Bible Storying and Church-Planting“In Praise of Short-term...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2013
Reaching the UnengagedThe God-Given Right to “Access”It’s Time to ActCultivating a Passion for All PeoplesThe Most Abominable “Word”Disciple-Making Movements Among Unreached MuslimsEffective Engagement After 6 YearsA Call for Reaching the Under-Engag...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2014
Breaking the SilenceTo See All Believers Equipped to Disciple Others, Including the DeafThe DeafReaching the DeafDeaf BibleWhy Sign Language Bible Translations Are Essential in Reaching the DeafEquipping the Deaf, Transforming Lives: Reaching the...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2015
The Power of HonorRestoring What Was LostWhy Has Nobody Told Me This Before?Why has the Church Lost “Face”?Honor and Shame in Latin American CultureGood News! God Honors Us By Entering Our StoryHonor/Shame Sub-Cultures in the U.S.The Gospel of...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2016
Women Engaged in Church-Planting Movements Among UPGsMovements Without Women?Women Engaged in Church-Planting Movements Among UPGsWomen and Vision CastingEmpowering Local PartnersOrdinary Women Empowered by an Extraordinary GodYour Kingdom...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2017
Nomads: The Challenge of Reaching People on the MoveRediscovering the Biblical Church that Can Reach Every PeopleWhy Focus on Nomads?What is a Nomad?Here, There, or Far AwayBreaching An Invisible BoundaryThe Nomad ChallengeWhen They Don’t Show...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2018
Are You In? 24:14 The Coalition To Foster Movements In All Peoples By 2025How to Get Involved24:14, The Best Hope for Reaching All Peoples. Are You In?24:14, The War That Finally ENDSThe Brutal FactsGod Is Using Movements To Reach The...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2019
Is the End of Extreme Poverty in Sight? What’s Working?Understanding the Remaining Mission TaskThe Poor Do Not Always Have to Be With UsEnding Poverty: Three Hopeful SignsHow Cultures Move from Poverty to ProsperityHope for the Nations: Book...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2020
Catching the Vision for MovementsLearning to do Church from the Mission FieldFrom Big to Small-for a Big MovementReaching "PIPSY" PeopleDMMs-More Than a Fad or Amazing New StrategyInterview with Pastor Chris Galanos of Experience LifeThe Rise and...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2021
Home Grown MovementsMovements Can Happen Here Too, If We Are Willing to Work for ThemCan Kingdom Movement Strategies Work in North America?Kingdom Movement Strategies in a Small/Medium-Sized Church Led by the PastorKingdom Movement Strategies in...
Mission Frontiers January-February 2023
Kingdom movements (four or more generations of churches planting churches, in multiple streams) are happening outside the direct personal experience of most of us. We didn’t come to faith in a movement and we’ve not catalyzed a movement. We know...
Mission Frontiers January-March 1985
Student Missions Urbana ’84: Biggest & Best YetMy Turn looking back at six “lost months”A Little Girl Fell Down A Well ShaftThree Ways ForwardThe Deep Roots of the U.S. Center for World MissionStudent Missions Urbana ‘84: Biggest & Best Yet!H...
Mission Frontiers July 1980
ChinaLots of Good Things!YWAMWhere do we standMissions in the BibleTeam Play
Mission Frontiers July 1982
We Want to Rejoice!Frontier Fellowship Daily Prayer GuideBilly Graham and Evangelicals in RussiaThe Anatomy of the Evangelical MovementTime Features Missiologist’s MasterpieceCounting Every Soul on EarthThe Spain/Rome Connection
Mission Frontiers July 1985
The Expanding Vision. Now Four North American CentersFour North American Centers for World Mission Spread Frontier Mission Vision Throughout ContinentThe Church in ChinaGod Reigns in ChinaThe Great Paycheck AdventureUSCWM Opportunities For...
Mission Frontiers July 1986
Amsterdam ‘86. Are National Evangelists Missionaries?As I See ItThe Last $1000 PlanAmsterdam 1986What’s Happening?Working Together to Reach MuslimsRestricted Access Countries
Mission Frontiers July-August 1979
Founder’s Reference Issue Three USCWM PrioritiesThe Hidden PeoplesQ & A With the DirectorThree Miracle YearsThe Ebbing of the TideFinancial Inside Facts
Mission Frontiers July-August 2002
God’s Purposes & Our PlansThe Inside Story Behind the “World Christian Global Action Plan”Mission Leaders Critique the “World Christian Global Action Plan”What’s Wrong with the Label “Managerial Missiology”Kids’ KornerHuman Strategy vs. the Holy...
Mission Frontiers July-August 2003
Download the whole issue or go here for individual articles: Have Missions Really Made a Difference? A Look at the Unprecedented Global InquiryListening to the Heartbeat of God’s PeopleInternational Coalition Steering Committee...
Mission Frontiers July-August 2004
Shackled: Student Debt and Missionary ServiceA Hurdle Too High for “Impact” MissionariesWhat Are Mission Agencies Saying and Doing about Student Debt?Release the Indentured Generation!Training Missionaries and Other Leaders Through World Christian...
Mission Frontiers July-August 2005
The Global Network of Mission StructuresIntroducing the Global Network of Mission StructuresHistorical Precedents and Foundations for the GNMSWhy We Buy Things We Don’t NeedAre We Trifling With Missions?Who Cares About the Millennium Development...
Mission Frontiers July-August 2006
DNA, Apostles and Kingdom CommunitiesWhat DNA Are We (Really) Reproducing?Nurturing a New Generation of “Pauline” and “Petrine” ApostlesVision 2025 Rapidly Accelerating the Pace of Bible Translation
Mission Frontiers July-August 2007
The Global Slave Trade: A Cause for Our TimeThe Global Slave TradeFinding Slavery in my Own BackyardThe Age of WilberforceThe Wilberforce LegacyThe Surprising Relevance of the Three-Self FormulaDisruptive Missiology Part 1