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Some ideas that will help us to be more effective in communicating the gospel to Muslims.

Today’s missionary candidates bring new family expectations to cross-cultural missions. The question we must ask, though, is whether their expectations are biblical or simply cultural.

Dramatic political changes in the Soviet Union are having an unprecedented impact on the churches there as well as in other Eastern European countries.

The maturation of baby boomer missionaries has sparked not only new spheres of ministry but also new types of ministry.

Frank Severn, general director of Send International, Farmington, Mich., commissioned three members to submit papers on the new generation of missionaries to the mission’s International Council. Frank Allen compiled the substance of their papers for this summary report.—Eds.

From 1983 to the end of 1988, 2,338 house churches were planted in northeast Thailand through mobile training centers.

Whether we do village or urban evangelism, rural development or medical missions, our work flows out of a philosophy of communication.

Churches and missions faced with the challenge of destructive, deceptive cults must take, effective action to expose the cult’s teachings, inform the public, and mobilize the community. The danger of cults is too serious to meet it with worried prayers and feeble knees.

The ethnic and cultural face of North America has changed drastically over the few years. Although that’s been happening steadily ever since the first Europeans steeped ashore, the change has been particularly dramatic in the last two decades.

The subject of territorial spirits and world missions is surfacing on the agendas of many church, seminary, and mission leaders.