Missions

Urbana Missions Conference: 16,000 Students Urged to Listen to God's Calling

Dec. 29, 2012 - Some 16,000 Christian young people have come together in St. Louis for Urbana 2012, a triennial student missions conference hosted by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

InterVarsity's president and CEO, Alec Hill, told The Christian Post during a press conference earlier in the day that his hope was that students not only take back what they learned from the event to their campuses, but come away with a sense of God's calling.

Students will be inspired to go on short-term missions and commit their whole lives to mission.

Source:Christian Post

America Is One of the Fastest Growing Mission Fields in the World

Oct. 10, 2012 - An American Christian does not need to travel to a foreign land to be a missionary these days. Our neighbors and foreign students at near-by universities can be reached by the Gospel.

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau released earlier this year, there were nearly 40 million foreign-born people – or 13 percent of the total population – living in the United States as of July 2010.

Unfinished magazine's fall issue encourages people to adopt "go to" approach to reaching people and spend less time on a "come to" approach.

Source: Christian Post

Unfinished Magazine

Gobal 4/14 Day Set for April 14, 2012

Dec. 19, 2011 - An international coalition of Christ followers and Christian leaders, known as the 4/14 Window Movement, have partnered together to launch Global 4/14 Day on April 14, 2012, the group announced in a statement released this morning. It will be a day of prayer for children between the ages of 4/14 to become Christians

Source: ChristianNewsWire

Global 4/14 Day

Christianity taking over planet?

Dec. 31, 2010 - According to the book "Megashift," by Jim Rutz, evangelical Christianity is the fastest-growing faith on Earth.

Rutz makes the point that Christianity is overlooked as the fastest-growing faith in the world because most surveys look at the traditional Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church while ignoring Christian believers who have no part of either.

Rutz claims there are 707 million "switched-on disciples" in this exploding "church," and that if present trends continue, the entire world will be composed of such believers by the year 2032.

Western Christianity is no longer the primary source of missionary activity. Non-Western evangelicals now outnumber Westerners by seven to one! They are nearly invisible to Western observers because they are not associated with the institutional churches at all. In fact, for the most part, they meet in secret, and their evangelism is often validated by miracles.

Source: WorldNetDaily

Jim Rutz: The 'Megashift' of the Worldwide Church - CBN

Caution/Balance: Megashift or Megaslip - Let Us Reason

Ed. note: It is difficult to confirm many of the claims of this book/movement, and it could lead to the unbiblical conclusion that these new evangelicals will usher in the Millennial Kingdom without the well-known prophecies of the End Times being fulfilled first. We should watch this trend prayerfully and evaluate it biblically.

See Ron's Blog: Evangelism and Prophecy

See earlier Articles: before Jan. 1, 2010