Borge Schantz

WITH the cooperation of the Danish Bible Society, the Naerum Town Council Library, and a local Bible collection, the Naerum Seventh-day Adventist church recently had a Bible exhibition, "The Bible 73." It was immediately followed by a series…

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS are currently working in 189 of the 220 countries, islands, and island groups listed by the United Nations. We have publications in 199 languages and oral work in 367 additional languages. Thus the work of…

Missionaries, in the traditional view, are supposed to arrive in the field with all the answers. We tend to take it for granted that the Western way of understanding the gospel is superior and that Western culture is closer to the Biblical…

When missionary-minded leaders look at the world map and lay plans to "finish the work," they talk about unentered areas. And we Adventists report—with some justified pride—that we have entered 184 of the…

If I followed your advice on health," exclaimed a poor widow to the missionary, "I would exhaust my monthly pension in three or four days."

The missionary, a keen health reformer, had enthusiastically urged…

Woodberry, professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, draws his material from papers presented by 24 evangelical Christian scholars. They bring to this book their expertise on Islamics, missiology,…

In the beautiful congress hall of an Eastern European capital, tensions were mounting. Participants had gathered there for the first symposium on religious liberty and freedom of conscience. The bishop of an ancient Eastern rite church had…

After holding evangelistic meetings in a number of places in Pakistan in February, we returned last May to see how those who had been baptized were doing. We also wanted to find out if the "seed" sown in the hearts of those who had shown…

The foundation of evangelistic success lies in home visitation. This was clearly demonstrated in our program in Pakistan. Daily house-to-house visitation was the essential means of soul-winning activity.

Home visitation, especially…

Stefan Hoeschele’s volume deals with the history and theological/ecclesiological development of the Seventh-day Adventist mission and church in Tanzania 1903–1980.

Christians on the African continent belong roughly to three main groups:…

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has an estimated population of about 140 million. Of these about three million are Christians, or approximately 400,000 families. For religious, political and practical reasons Christians…

The church growth movement, with impetus from the "mission Fields," reached the Western world around the early 1970s. At the foundation of the movement was Donald McGavran, and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena,…

On August 17, 1999, I was scheduled to fly out from Denmark to Pakistan to visit some churches we had planted there. Wondering about some physical symptoms I had noticed in myself, the day before I left I met with…

As we have entered the twenty- first century, our church faces many challenges, one of the greatest being, How do we adapt to the ever-changing world we face while, at the same time, staying faithful to the message…

During recess at a Scandinavian elementary school, immigrant Muslim boys attacked a little girl who wore a cross necklace. They tore it off and threw it on the ground while cursing and shouting obscenities. When approached…