The Directory of Articles for July-October 1997 Cover Story: The Southern Baptist "Transformation" Taking the Denominational Lead in Reaching the Unreached Peoples

Welcome to the July-October 1997 Directory for Mission Frontiers, the bulletin of the U.S. Center for World Mission. In this issue we feature the amazing changes the have taken place in the missions work of the Southern Baptist denomination. The International Mission Board, previously known as the the Foreign Mission Board has made some major shifts to focus more closely on unreached peoples worldwide.  Also we report on what happened at GCOWE '97, and discuss the upcoming praying and giving campaigns for the 10/40 Window.

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
#1. The “Story After” is always more exciting. What really happened in South Africa?
#2. Are we harvesting nickels in missions today?
#3. Would you and your family be willing to consider becoming a “missionary family”?
#4. Okay, there’s now no problem in recognizing “intelligent design,”   What about the evidence of “destructive” intelligent design? Does this have anything to do with missions?

MF Behind the Scenes
By Rick Wood
The Southern Baptists: A Glorious Transformation in Process
They are the largest Protestant denomination in the world with over 15 million members. Their missionaries cover the globe with an historic record of missionary outreach spanning over 150 years. Certainly with enough resources and effort they could do anything, perhaps even complete world evangelization —or so they thought.

GCOWE ’97
Launches Africa and the World into the Final Push for “a Church for Every
People by the Year 2000.”
--Rick Wood
With growing global momentum in reaching the unreached peoples, 3,930
delegates from 135 countries gathered in Pretoria, South Africa on June 30th for the opening session of GCOWE ’97 at Hatfield Christian Church. Discover how they will be pushing forward in the next years.

GCOWE ’97: The Process of Partnership Development Moves Forward
—Mats Tunehag
The Gospel is all about restored relationships. And through partnership we can embody the message, by being restored not only to God, but also to one another. At one of the consultations at GCOWE ’97, two members of the Partnership Task Force spoke on partnership. Find out what was said.

GCOWE ’97
Mission Executives Meeting
The Dream of William Carey Becomes Reality
The largest global meeting of mission executives in 87 years and the most representative in history.
--Rick Wood
William Carey, in 1806, thought that it would be a good idea if all of the missionaries in the world were to meet together four years later at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, in 1810. It took 191 years, but William Carey’s dream of a global missionary meeting in South Africa became a reality at GCOWE ’97 in July. Learn what was accomplished.

The Southern Baptists Restructure to Reach the Unreached Peoples
An Interview with Jerry Rankin, IMB President and
Avery Willis, Senior Vice President for Overseas Operations
—by MF Staff
The largest Protestant denomination in the world, the Southern Baptist Convention, with over 15 million members, is going through a renaissance of mission strategy and structural change that is earthshaking in its magnitude. As this transition to a new organization and name takes place, we asked Jerry Rankin and Avery Willis of the new International Mission Board to give us their
perspective on these massive changes.

Of ‘Jesus Mosques’ and Muslim Christians
Reprinted from the August 1997 - COMISSION
Are mosques for Muslim believers in Christ a form of syncretism, or is God doing something we need to take off our cultural blinders to see?

A Different Kind of Mosque
Reprinted from the August 1997 - COMISSION
A new idea buys time for new Christians to grow.  Muslims who accept Jesus as Savior often face intense pressure from the Muslim community. Families disown them. Friends shun them.  Employers fire them. Militants abuse them. And traditional Christian churches usually are slow to accept them. Is there an answer?

What Color is Jesus? or How Can We Present Jesus to a New Culture Without Bringing Our Own?
—David L. Learner
Regardless of how hard I tried, I could never make Jesus look just right to another culture... I could not know my host culture well enough to present Jesus in a perfectly contextualized manner.  I asked God to give me a local cultural informant who could take Jesus as I know him and present the essence of who Jesus is in a meaningful way to his culture.

Mission Training File
-By Ben Sells
Global consultation commencing; Training alliance catalyzing;  ACCESS conference coming; WCF finishes... read on for an update

Missions in a Suitcase
Visalia E-Free Church Shares Their Secrets for a Successful People Group Adoption
Missions In A Suitcase, is an innovation that Visalia has developed as part of their successful Adopt-A-People program. This church of 275 people proves that you don’t have to have a large church to be involved in world missions to unreached peoples.

The Prayer Siege Continues!
Praying Though The Window III
Zeroing in on the peoples of the 10/40 Window
–Edited by Ian Downs
This year millions of intercessors worldwide will unite to pray for the unreached people groups living within the 10/40 Window. Each day, about four “people group clusters” will be targeted. This article gives an overview of Praying through the Window.

You CAN Make a Difference!
One amazing reality in missions is how much God continues to accomplish through the few who sacrificially share His love with the nations. The more you already do personally, the more likely you are to be asking, “What could I do to make a bigger difference?”

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

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