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The Changing Face of World Missions: Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends is unavailable, but you can change that!

The latter part of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first have seen dramatic changes, both in global society and within the church. These changes have ramifications for the task of missions in the new millennium. The Changing Face of World Missions identifies and interacts with 12 significant trends that today’s student of missions needs to understand. These trends include...

have helped over 1,850 families in Baghdad, Mosul, and Kirkuk (Reapsome 2002, 1). In addition, nongovernment organizations, frequently Christian, provide more services in many majority world countries than governments are able to deliver. Many of the hospitals established by Western mission agencies now function effectively under national Christian direction and staffing. As Steven Fouch says, “Today there are thousands of hospitals, clinics and healthcare projects around the globe set up and run
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