The Directory of Articles for May-June 97 Cover Story: Countdown to AD2000 With Three Years Left, Will GCOWE '97 Launch Agency Partnerships to Reach Every People?

Welcome to the May-June 1997 Directory for Mission Frontiers. In this issue we feature Gcowe'97 (Global Consultation on World Evangelization) in Pretoria, South Africa from June 30-July 5. Also included are several excellent articles on Stragtegic Partnerships, which is a central theme for much of GCOWE '97, and also recent Adopt-A-People info.

I hope that you enjoy these articles. Please feel free to write and let us know your response to these articles.

Editorial of Dr. Ralph Winter
Founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission
This issue is full of news of things past and things soon to come. The future includes our cover story, "Countdown to 2000." And that year 2000 is not very far in the future! What CAN be done by then?

MF Behind the Scenes
By Rick Wood
Just Three Years Left! What Can Be Accomplished?
But tremendous forces for World Evangelization have been unleashed by the growing AD2000 and Beyond Movement and the networks of Christian leaders that make it up. In this issue of Mission Frontiers we talk about two forces that have the potential of altering what is possible by the year 2000 and beyond.

Mission Frontiers Would Like to Give Birth, But We Need Your Help!
By Rick Wood
Yes, you read that right. Mission Frontiers would like to give birth, BUT not to children...

***Special GCOWE 97 Section***

GCOWE '97
(Global Consultation on World Evangelization)
Pretoria, South Africa, June 30--July 5, 1997
Willie Crew, The Director of the World Mission Centre in South Africa Gives His Thoughts on the Eve of this Meeting
--by Willie Crew, host of GCOWE '97
Find out what GCOWE is all about.

*GCOWE '97 Consultation Summaries*
Preparations are moving forward for the upcoming Global Consultation on World Evangelization called GCOWE ’97 in Pretoria South Africa, June 30-July 5, 1997. This consultation consists of ten separate consultations. In this article we present a brief overview of the ten consultations.

1. Mission Executives Consultation
2. Business Executives Consultation
3. The Consultation on Meeting the Needs of the Poor
4. African National AD2000 Initiatives Consultation
5. GCOWE 97 Training For Church Planting Movements Consultation
6. South Africa Local Pastors Consultation
7. Theological Institution Presidents and Academic Deans Consultation of GCOWE 97
8. University Students & Youth Leaders Consultation
9. Worship And Performing Arts In Missions Consultation
10. Children’s Ministry Consultation

GCOWE '97
Mission Executives Consultation
What Do 500 Mission Executives Hope to Accomplish?
An Interview with Avery Willis Co-Chairman
-MF Staff
For only the second time since 1910, mission agency leaders will be meeting on a global level to discuss cooperation and coordination of their efforts in World Evangelization. They will be meeting as part of GCOWE '97 in Pretoria, South Africa. We sat down with Avery T. Willis Jr., co-chairman of the mission leaders meeting with George Verwer of Operation Mobilization, to get his thoughts and hopes for this meeting.

***End of GCOWE'97 SECTION***

Does God take degrees seriously?
-By Ben Sells
One of today's global cultural realities (unfortunately?) is the general, even uncritical, acceptance of "a university degree." How can we approach this fact of our world? How do you feel about university degrees. Find out in this article.

Centers for World Mission: Why Do We Need Them?
-by Frank L. Roy
Find out how Centers for World Mission promote the mission movement as a whole. What is a Center World Mission? You ask... Read and Discover!

The " XGatewayX " People Cluster Consultation
April 17-19, 1997, USCWM--Pasadena, California
Laying the Foundation for Church and Agency Cooperation
--by Greg Fritz, President of Caleb Resources
On the 17th of April over 250 church and mission leaders gathered in Pasadena, at the facilities of the US Center for World Mission, for the "Gateway" People Cluster Consultation.They came together with the purpose of bringing greater definition and focus on the concept of Gateway People Clusters. Gateway People Clusters, or GPCs, are large groups of peoples that share a cultural affinity.

Partnerships and Advocacy for Unreached Peoples: An Effective Means of Mobilizing and Deploying
Kingdom Resources, But Facilitators and Advocates
Are Needed.
--Mats Tunehag
A growing number of international partnerships already exist for many unreached peoples. These partnerships bring together believers and their Kingdom resources from around the globe.

Partnership: Accelerating World Evangelization in the 90's
Find Out How Strategic Partnerships Can Help
Your Church or Agency.
--by Phill Butler, Director of Interdev, with Clyde Cowan
It's hard to build a house if the builders don't work together. It is hard to build a church among a people if ministry specialties don't work together. Find out how to work together.

Strategic Partnerships: Sixteen Key Effectiveness Principles
By Phill Butler and Interdev
Through many years of working to establish Strategic Evangelism Partnerships among agencies on the field, Phill Butler and the fine people at Interdev have learned that there are several key principles that characterize successful partnerships.

The Life of a Partnership Facilitator
Is It a Role That You Could Fill?
-MF Staff
Recently Mission Frontiers gathered together three individuals who have been filling the role of a Partnership Facilitator, sometimes called a Non-residential Missionary or Strategic Coordinator (SC). We wanted to get their first-hand accounts of their experiences in this role.

Adopt-A-People
A Truly Biblical Model of Mission
--by Debbie Wood, Publications Director, AD2000 and Beyond Movement
In a growing number of churches, a new paradigm is taking hold which goes directly to the point: a focus directly on the world's unreached peoples, and on reaching one people in particular. ADOPTION!

From COMIBAM to the Nations
The Regional Consultation for Adopt-A-People Coordinators
San Salvador, February 4-6, 1997
Lays the Foundation for Thousands of New Adoptions by Latin Churches
--By Phil Bogosian, Director, Global Adopt-A-People Campaign, Manila
See what God is doing in the Latin america Mission Movement!

KIDS KORNER
--Gerry Dueck
Great Mission Resources for kids!!

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