The Christian Reformed Church in the Dominican Republic (ICR-RD) began with missionary contacts there in 1975 and 76 and since then has grown dramatically. Missionary involvement has increased from bi-annual visits in 1976 to the presence of 11 missionary families, 1 long-term volunteer and 1 short-term volunteer; church expansion and the increase of missionaries have […]
It has been eleven years since the R.T.C.N. was founded, and the Outlook readers may be wondering what has happened to this institution. At your editor’s prompting, I will try to acquaint you with what has been happening during these years. When we joined the college in 1975 there were just two classes, and with […]
Since the beginning of the war in Lebanon back in 1975, I have often been asked: are the Lebanese Christians truly Christian? Many Christians in the West did not even know of the existence of Christians in the Middle East prior to the tragic events associated with Lebanon. My response to the question often took […]
It is a disturbing fact in missionary history that what began as a sincere effort to go out and convert people of the world to believers in Christ has often eventually developed into a conversion of missionaries and their sending churches to paganism. That remarkable reversal should not altogether surprise us. The Lord had no […]
W. D. Graham is a missionary of the Free Church of Scotland in South Africa. In an address reported in the church’s March, 1983 Monthly Record, he said: There are many problems in South Africa, just as there are in India, Peru, Scotland. We can try to solve problems in different ways. But I go […]
DANGERS TO THE GOSPEL MISSIONS The missionary’s effort to bring the gospel to the world may encounter two especially formidable kinds of obstacles. One of them is the hostility of the people to whom he goes which may take the form of persecution. The other, often more subtle, but just as dangerous, is the pressures […]
The rise and growth of the Christian church in Korea has been one of the great success stories of missionary history. Samuel Moffatt, writing in the October 2 Christianity Today, informs us that Korea’s Christian grow four times as fast as the population, that six out of seven of them are Protestants and half of […]
In the special Summer 1981 edition of Jubilee in which the Wycliffe Bible Translators celebrate their 50th anniversary Luis Palau tells a story to gladden Christian hearts. Observing that “God runs history through faithful men and women, individuals like you and me, brothers and sisters who are obedient in little things,” he introduces to us […]
A Trend in Missions The above title appears over the leading editorial of the Feb. 2, 1981 issue of Getrouw, the Dutch monthly publication of the International Council of Christian Churches of which Rev. J. C. Maris is secretary. The article begins by comparing two unusually important missionary conferences, both of which were concerned with […]
The work of Christian Reformed missionaries in Mexico has recently been going through a crisis. Especially in this concluding article on Missions in Mexico, Rev. Neal Hegeman helps us to better understand the problems of our mission there. The Hegemans are at present at Apartado 100, San Francisco de Dos Rios, San Jose, Costa Rica, […]