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, […]
In the first article on Mexico we described the entry stage of the mission work of the CRC in Mexico. The CRC made contact with migrants in the late 50’s, did follow-up work in Mexico, were invited to work with the Independent Presbyterian Church in Mexico and commenced their mission work in the early 60’s. […]
In this article Rev. Neal Hegeman who has worked on our mission field in Mexico introduces us to the complex and recently troubled work there. He has graduated from our seminary and is to take up work under the Christian Reformed Board of World Missions in Costa Rica. Recent issues of THE OUTLOOK have contained […]
Thirty years ago the Christian Reformed Churches adopted an indigenous mission policy making it their aim from the beginning of work in each field to establish self-propagating, self-governing and self-supporting churches. Such an aim is easier to adopt than to realize. Today our missionary efforts face new pressures to have the churches in the various […]
Dr. Timothy M. Monsma, veteran of twelve years of missionary service in Nigeria and at present professor of missions at Grand Rapids, Michigan’s, Reformed Bible College, in this and a following article, calls our attention to the bearing of our Reformed creeds on our missionary activity. This material is also being published under a slightly […]