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MKs respond to questions.

Ten Urbana missionary conventions have come and gone between 1946 and 1974. What will future historians say of them? Will they be seen as an effective stimulus to missions or not?

Let us imagine a child (call him John) of six years, who must go to the mission boarding school. Let us reconstruct a fairly typical experience for him.

In order to appreciate the far-reaching consequences of traditional religion on the Latin American mentality and way of life, it becomes imperative to look historically at the phenomena which we may call in borrowed symbolism “Miracle, Mystery and Authority.”

Mission leaders are aware that contemporary attitudes toward evangelism are currently undergoing some very basic changes. Furthermore, these changes will undoubtedly become more and more prominent in the decade to come.

What will the trends of the past decade mean to the work of the gospel in the coming ten years?

At a recent church growth/evangelism workshop in Colombia the national pastors and missionaries were asked to list the major obstacles to the growth of their churches.

Reports from around the world.

Some significant happenings in Asia during the last ten years.

As a layman who his had a deep interest in missions for many years, I am much concerned about several observations I have made, and I feel that it would be profitable to bring these out into the open for consideration.