Explore Seven Strategic Opportunities for Completing World Evangelization.

The Editorial of Ralph D. Winter
Founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission
This issue grasps for insight into "the new horizons" of mission. Not because we are running out of things to do. No… but because these stirring  NEW HORIZONS are piling up on us. Like the unexpected power of a huge  volcano, the global success of the Gospel has forced major changes in the landscape.

MF Behind the Scenes
by Rick Wood, Managing Editor
Are You Seeking to Find the Best Mission Strategies? Here Are Few to
Chew On.
They are coming at us more and more every day. This group or that appeals to us to support this mission strategy or another.But which strategy is best.

Letters to the Editor

Horizon One: Grass Roots Mobilization
Fueling the Passion in the Pew
The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod opens a seat at the table for the people in the pew and watches its mission double. Perhaps we can learn something from their example.

Horizon Two: A Pre-Candidate Network
Global Links with Local Touch
by Greg H. Parsons
Could we work together on a joint, nationwide pre-candidate network to move God's purposes forward? The idea of working together is not new. The question is: how deeply will mission agencies work together?

Horizon Three: Re-thinking Mission Education
The Breakthrough for On-Field Mission Training
by Ben Sells
The amateurization versus professionalization debate--the two long-standing extremes in the training dimension of missionaries--is being substantially diminished as distance education reshapes the educational landscape of North America.

Horizon Four: Avoiding Dependency
Mobilizing Local Resources
by Glenn J. Schwartz
Often we seek to mobilize global resources for local projects "over there" that we are convinced will work. Glenn Schwartz proposes a new set of priorities.

Horizon Five: DeWesternization/DeContextualization
DeWesternization Tomorrow
Are we really ready for tomorrow's Kingdom?
by Ralph D. Winter
As we take the Gospel to new cultures, can we separate our faith from our culture? As Biblical faith penetrates these cultures are we as Evangelical Christians prepared for the strange cultural forms the Gospel may take?

Horizon Six: Using Biculturals
Their Day Dawns Again
by Ian L. Downs
The strategy that catapulted the Church across the Roman Empire may foreshadow mission breakthroughs on the final frontiers.

Horizon Seven: Microscopic Spiritual Warfare
Massive Blind Spot?
by Ralph Winter
Are you and I culturally blind to certain realms of Satan's deadly activity? Take the realm of tiny microbes. Are Evangelicals duped into considering plagues merely a secular or scientific problem, not a Satanic problem, not a mission problem?

How the Film "JESUS" has become the Most Translated Film in History
Explore the five steps in the translation process that allows "JESUS" to speak another new language every week.

Self-Reliance or Interdependence
A Point-Counterpoint Discussion with
Gary Parker of Mustard Seed and
Glenn Schwartz of World Mission Associates
How does a mission agency avoid the dangers of dependency described by Steve Saint and commented on by Glenn Schwartz in the May-June 1998 issue of Mission Frontiers? These two mission leaders discuss the  possibilities.

The Escalating Filipino Force for the Nations
The Philippines have long been the target of North American missionaries. Today, they host over 3000 foreigners focused on the Master's missionary work. But a burgeoning number of Filipinos are no longer content to be relegated to position of host.

Perspectives on the World Christian Movement Course
Spring 1999 Class Schedule
Don't miss a chance to visit a class near you. It could be the most important thing you do all year.

Uphold the USCWM in Prayer!
We are exhorted from 1 Thessalonians 5:17 to pray without ceasing. Many of the needs of the U.S. Center for World Mission require ceaseless prayer. Our campus is a major battlefield of spiritual warfare.

KIDS KORNER
Gerry Dueck
Great mission resources for kids.

News from the Frontiers
Frontier mission news from Korea, Bangladesh and the U.S. Center