Campus Crusade is mushrooming, and has begun to work in Great Britain. Every active Christian student at University is certain to meet up with this movement sooner or later, and it is only proper that he should know something about it as soon as possible. The movement stems from the United States of America, and […]
Food prices will undoubtedly rise in the United States in the next five years. Alongside the general climb in the cost of living, a major factor contributing to the rise will be the organization of migrant farm-workers into labor unions. Indeed, the most dynamic front in labor organizing today is among the under-paid, under-clothed, under-educated, […]
One of the most momentous decisions facing Our church this year is the one we must make regarding the training of ministers in Africa. The possible consequences of that decision for the future of the church in Africa arc beyond our ability to measure and its implications for our churches at home are no less […]
By November 13, 1968, three hundred fifty years will have passed since the first “ecumenical” Reformed synod was convened.1 Meeting in the venerable Dutch city of Dordrecht, it aimed at resolving the unhappy conflict between Arminians and Calvinists which rent the Reformed churches. No one should express surprise that the mention of “Dort” brings at […]
A MISSION PRINCIPLE One of the most difficult lessons that the Western Christian Churches have had to learn in their missionary practice has been that they must treat the converts and the churches whom the Lord has raised up through their witness as equals. Our churches have been earnestly trying to put that lesson into […]
The Theological College of Northern Nigeria has been the center of much discussion at the Board of Foreign Missions, at Synod, and on the Mission field. The issue surrounding the TCNN is much more important than many realize. It concerns our mission policy on the Nigeria field and others. And it also is a test case […]
In spite of coup d’etats, rioting, and civil war, the Church of Jesus Christ is growing in Nigeria. During the last ten years attendance at Sunday morning worship in the Tiv Church has grown from 23,000 to 163,000. In this same church the number of communicant members has risen from 1,700 to 10,500 in ten years. […]
It has been said that the example of the New Englanders in America and their success in converting the Indians to Christianity first aroused the energy of the Dutch for the conversion of the natives in Ceylon. A variety of motivations must have inspired Dutch ministers to sail to the East. Some came to gain experience and […]
Vasco Da Gama reached Calicut in India on the 28th May, 1498. With this discovery of a sea route from Europe to the East, a new era of history for India and Ceylon was begun. For the next four centuries European trade, culture, and religion powerfully affected the age-old civilizations of Asia. The history of Asian countries […]
Palm trees swayed gently against the delft-blue tropical sky as the Dutch admiral, Joris Van Spilbergen, on the 31st May 1602, stepped ashore on the island of Ceylon. He was not the first Christian to set foot on Ceylon soil. Tradition traces the beginning of Christianity in Ceylon back to Apostolic times. The existence of a Christian […]