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It’s one of those projects that often gets put off until furlough looms. Or it’s a requirement of new missionaries who have so many other new and confusing tasks to accomplish.

Church life in North America is changing and some of these changes are welcome. Less welcome is the tendency for prayer meetings to get dropped because few attend.

This morning’s paper carried a picture of a weather-beaten, dilapidated one-room school near here. It looked like it belonged in the Smithsonian. For years, no children have etched their names in the desks. For years, no teacher has cracked knuckles with a ruler. I know about such things, I started out in one of those schools.

Marshall was a fellow soldier who liked to boss people around. Because I outranked him by a few weeks, he informed me that he hated me. I avoided him after that.

Last time we considered three controversial issues: (1) Are we winning or losing? (2) How believable is the A.D. 2000 movement? (3) Why not let the nationals do it? We concluded:

Within the last 18 months three missionaries have been taken hostage in Panama, Colombia one in the Philippines, and one in Cambodia.

Introduction
TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) has long been touted as an ideal profession for those who wish to proclaim the gospel in both open and closed countries (e.g., Baurain 1992).

We all have pictures of the past indelibly printed on our minds. Sometimes we wish we could simply forget those images. Other times we’re thankful we can’t.

One of the greatest challenges for today’s mission is the former Soviet Union, also known as the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.). After 70 years of religious restriction, the open promotion of the gospel has been allowed again.

Have we failed to reach Muslims at their point of deepest insecurity?