Completed?

Last month we reviewed the remarkable growth of the church here and there around the world: 50,000 sisters and brothers in Mongolia, up from a handful three decades ago; a million more in Nepal; nearly half-a-billion on the continent of … (read more)

The Wrong Question

May I be perfectly frank? Sometimes I wonder what, precisely, we have accomplished in seventy-five years. We have prayed many prayers, it is true. We have sent many hundreds of missionaries. We have received the donations of faithful sisters and … (read more)

“Not alone…”

The World Mission Prayer League has been at work in Africa since 1968, as you will read in this month’s newsletter. We were centuries late to the scene. The gospel has been at work in Africa since New Testament times … (read more)

History’s Sovereign

One of the largest and most dynamic Christian communities in the world today is the Christian community in China. But it was not always so. One hundred years ago, Christians in China numbered less than two million, approximately 0.4% of … (read more)

The Task Remaining: Unreached Peoples

In some circles, as we observed last month, it has become fashionable to maintain that the missionary task of the church is completed. The church was sent into the world, it is true, once upon a time. Then we got … (read more)

Copiapo Accident

Rescue! … From Cape Town to Copiapó

Like many of you, I am sure, I have been mesmerized by the stories emerging from “Camp Hope” in the mountains of Chile over the past few weeks. The entire world, it seems, has followed these dramatic events. You may … (read more)