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The 747’s wheels crunched into the runway with a jarring thud. Their nine-hour flight completed, Joe and Sally and their kids scrambled to gather all their stuff tumbling out of the overhead bins. Forbodding questions pummled their minds as they staggered through customs and immigration.

Five years of tough work culminated in a radically new worship tool.

Here’s how churches can move from depending on mission agencies to relying on themselves.

This and other questions must be faced by the proponents of the unreached peoples movement.

As the year A.D. 2000 began to loom into view, Christian leaders started praying and dreaming about what could be accomplished by the the end of the century (and millennium).

What’s the only uncontested truth about unreached peoples? (1) They are eterenally lost without Christ, and (2) we are supposed to reach them with the gospel as eagerly as the apostle Paul set his sights on Rome.

Many of us have been taught that our relationship with donors means we receive money and prayer support, and they get information, nothing more. So our goal is to find churches and people who will give to us, expecting very little in return.

Do we offer run of the mill development, or transformational programs?

After two centuries in Latin America, church and state are no longer such cozy partners.

When I commented that she was getting thin, Kristina smiled and looked away in embarrassment. Getting thin in this survival society is not unusual, but as the widow of one of our preachers, she gets a small pension plus medical benefits.