How to help Muslim converts
Patrick Sookhdeo
Date posted: 1 Apr 1997
If you were a shopkeeper in Iran, you would have to put a card in your window stating your religion, ensuring that most customers would pass you buy, afraid to be seen entering. If you were a pastor, you would receive regular summons to the police station and threatening phone calls that you know are serious - another of your colleagues was killed last year.
And if you were a Muslim who had recently become a Christian almost anywhere in the Muslim world, the chances are that you would be living far from your family and home, perhaps in fear of your life.
Shanty town church
Pastor Daniel Ogutu
Date posted: 1 Apr 1997
Pastor Daniel Ogutu tells of the work in the Mathare Valley just outside the Kenyan capital of Nairobi
This slum is an eyesore, an endemic source of social and moral problems. With a population of 500,000 people, it is located on both sides of the Mathare river. It is only 5km from the city centre of Nairobi. Sadly, due to lack of sanitation, the river has changed into a dump for refuse and filth.
Evangelists in the team
Mr Eddie Tait
Date posted: 1 Jan 1997
A challenge to Christians to re-orientate their whole way of church life around people who need to know Jesus as Saviour and a removing of the traditional barriers between pastors and evangelists, has come from Stephen Gaukroger and Luis Palau.
Stephen, senior minister at Gold Hill Baptist Church as well as a regular Spring Harvest (Word Alive) speaker, and international evangelist Luis, gave the challenge as they toured Britain to share the vision of city and area-wide missions in the Bristol and Bath area, East Midlands and the North West. Luis will be leading the 'There's More to Life!' mission centred on Bristol's Ashton Gate football stadium this coming June, while the East Midlands regional mission will probably take place in 1998.
The Deep Sea Canoe Movement
Dr Michael Griffiths
Date posted: 1 Jan 1997
In God's providence, one opportunity for ministry is often used to enrich another.
My wife and I were on our way to visit the Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship in Papua New Guinea and Pacific Students for Christ in Fiji (both IFES-related movements like the British UCCF, but in countries we had never visited before, and about which we knew we were ignorant).
A Rocha
Mr Peter Harris
Date posted: 1 Mar 1997
Two men emerged and picked up the dead bird, probably destined to make a bedraggled trophy on a shelf somewhere. For many migrating birds of prey in southern Europe and the Middle East, that destination is almost as probable as the remaining woodlands of northern Africa. Estimates vary of the number of all kinds of birds who fall prey to hunters and trappers around the Mediterranean each spring and autumn, but it is probably over 20 million.
On this particular morning, at least, the eagle's demise did not go unlamented; there was an opportunity for A Rocha team members to explain to its hunters a little more of how the bird might have lived if allowed to continue on its way, and to ask them to consider whether they were happy with the idea that their grandchildren might never see the bird in the wild. That was a new idea, it seemed.
Finding faith today
Mr Paul Weston
Date posted: 1 Dec 1996
'All the statistical evidence goes to show that those within our secularised societies who are being drawn out of unbelief to faith in Christ say they were drawn through the friendship of a local congregation'.
So writes Leslie Newbigin. A statement like this is easily passed over. It seems rather obvious at one level.
Step by step to Peru
John Peet
Date posted: 1 Sep 1996
John Peet interviewed Cecily Maclagan, a Scotswoman, working with the Irish Baptist Mission in Peru.
JP: Where are you working in Peru, and who with?
CM: I'm working right down in the south of the country on the border with Chile, and I'm seconded by Grace Baptist Mission to the Irish Baptist Mission.
How we were called to Zaire
Will and Judith Sawyers
Date posted: 1 Sep 1996
How are Christians called by the Lord into missionary service? On this page and opposite are two examples. We start here with Will and Judith.
Long ago, in a galaxy far away, lived a couple of normal Christian students...
Billy the Kid in Wales
Geraint Fielder
Date posted: 1 Nov 1996
In his 1960s' biography of the evangelist Billy Graham, John Pollock says that Graham began his ministry in Britain in the South Wales town of Gorseinon.
He has since corrected that. The first two meetings were held in October 1946 at the Gospel Temple in Bristol, which is now demolished.
How much do we care for the lost? (Bulldog for September)
Mr Stanley Davies
Date posted: 1 Sep 1996
I was startled when I first read the figures, I couldn't believe them - surely they couldn't be true! That the Christian world in general spends £999 in every £1,000 on itself. That left only £1 in every £1,000 to reach out to the non-Christian world.
But worse was to come as I read further. While 90 pence in every £1,000 was spend on the non-Christian world that had already been evangelised in some way, only 10 pence in every £1,000 was spend in reaching the unevangelised world. Is it really possible that we invest so small a part of our Christian giving on the lost, those who are without Christ and without hope in this world?
Chasing the wild goose
Peter Glover
Date posted: 1 Oct 1996
We are becoming used to hearing rumours about 'new moves of the Spirit'. Brace yourself, yet another may well be about to break upon the British church scene. EN investigates ......
In the partial lull after 'Toronto' many have been awaiting either the next 'movement of the Holy Spirit' or the next outbreak of 'counterfeit Christianity' - depending on one's perspective and biblical understanding.
God's valiant warrior
John Delaney
Date posted: 1 Oct 1996
'Dr. Livingstone, I presume' is one of the best known quotations in the English language but, for many people, this is all they know of the great man. John Delaney tells us more . . .
Perseverance
This is not yet another eulogy on this intrepid medical missionary, explorer, and national hero of the past. It is, rather, holding forth a life to encourage every buffeted and bewildered follower of Jesus.
