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Confirmation

has

been

received

from

Woodrow

Phillips,

President

of

San Jose Bible College,

that

he will participate

in

a Mass

Communications forum

in Santiago,-

Chile,

S.A,

dwraag

May 1 8

-

26, 1975* The purpose of the meeting

is

to analyse

the

mass

communications work

of the Church of

Christ.,

Christian

Church missionaries in Chile.

The Chilean Bible

Corresponf^ence

program has more than

23,000 students enrolled in its four courses. The entire pro

gram consists of a four-step plan: 1 contact; 2 conversion;

3

new

church

establishment;

and

i | . ) leadership training. The

program has

just recently moved into

the

second

and

third

phases.

Besides analysing

the

first step (contact). Brother

Phillips

will

devote one week to discussion with the missionaries

about how to attain successful

results

in

the remaining

three

phases

of

the

program. If other missionaries or recruits are

interested

in

participating in the seminar, or would like to

know more about

the Chilean

work, write to:

Centro de Difusi n Cristiana

Casilla I I 4 . O I 7 Correo 21

Santiago,

Chile

S.A,

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W h e r e

W e A r e

T o d a y

I n

M i s s i o n s ?

- W o o d r o w

P h i l l i p s

9 0 0 \ v o r d s

Every

great

missions movement tends to reach a plateau, remain

at that level for serveral

decades

and then

decline.

Since the close of

World

War

II

our Direct Support Missions move

ment has been one

of the

most rapidly expanding adventures in world

evangelism among

Bible

believing people.

Mow,we are

at a plateau*of

achievement i n fields entered, missionaries supported, churches es

tablished, benevolent work underwritten

and converts

reached with the

gospel.

The easy course is to be'isatisfied

with

consoliding this tremen

dous growth. After three decades of almost uninterrupted

advance,

the temptation

is

to see the mounting costs of missionary

recruitment,

training and commissioning

as

well as the

logical

case formore

of

the

work being done by the national

-coverts

in their own fields, and to

use

these

facts as our

psychological

brake

against-futther outreach.

W e - as

a

people enlisted as disciples under the commission

of

Jesus Christ, dare not let these.achievements deter us from even great

er mission

thrust.

Our

crossroads

of

missionary destiny is

either

already here

or

immediately in bur

future.

To count the cost

for

world mission and

curtail

our expansion because

of

the high

investment

in lives, prayers

- a n d funds it requires

is

to leave

the

task unfinished at the one moment

in history v d i e n

globe

girdling

evangelism

is

possible.

We may

argue

for

better teaching

of

the conVerts already

won.

We

see the need for more benevolent

v / o r k

in medicine, orphan

and aged care

as vital

in the

fields already

opened.

New printing ventures and more

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tive

strategy

for expansion.

Never

have so many

seriously

searched

again through the Scriptures, early church

history, great

missionary

movements of the past and peoples

movements

of today to see patterns

for

church

g r o v / t h .

Never

have trained minds

committed to

mission worked

so

hard

to

borrow a l l that i s good a n d h e l p f u l

from

every mental discipline men

know to apply their

gleanings

to gospel proclamation,

V / e

are at an

apex

in mission interest and involvement in all

evan

gelical Christendom, The free exchange of knowledge, ideas and

results

has brought a unity in Christ on

our mission

fields,never

before

pos

sible, Without

compromise

of our commitment

to the New

Testament we

are crossing old lines of separation

that

can

only

lead to further

 oneness

in

the

gospel message and

mission work,

Bible translation is rapidly reducing the number of tribes and

people

who cannot

be

taught

the

Word

of

God

in

their

own

tongue

i n

their own culture.

Now is the day

when the church can triumph

by

the power of

the

Holy Spirit

in

His

Word and in His people.

We stand

at

the threshhold of

opportunity

for church growth un

precedented

in 20

centures

of

Christian history. It is a day to put

all

we are

and

all we are

provided

by

His

grace into the missionary ad

vance that

can

change the

history of the

human family.

The

technical

toolfe,

the travel

opportunities,

the financial

re

sources, the

potentialimanpower

are

all ours

to marshall for

world

wide sharing

of

the good news .

Today is

the day of

salvation

for all

and

a

challenge we can

meet

to bring

glory

to God and our Savior

Jesus Christ,

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The

t i m e t o

act

i s u p o n u s . It

c a n n o t

w a i t

for

n a t i o n a l

conveo"

t i o n s

o r

e v e n

c h u r c h b o a r d

a c t i o n .

T h i s r e n e w a l

m u s t

b e g i n

w i t h

e v e r y

individual disciple.

W e are, r i g h t n o w , at

t h e

m o m e n t of o u r g r e a t e s t

d e c i s i o n

a s a

B i b l e

p e o p l e .

W e c a n

m o v e

f o r v ^ a r d i n f a it h t o b e c o me t h e

g r e a t e s t

v e h i c l e f o r w o r l d m i s s i o n t h a t h a s e v e r b e e n

k n o v / n

o r w e c a n p l e a s a n t l y ,

b u s i l y s t a g n a t e

o n o u r

h i g h p l a t e a u o f c u r r e n t

e v a n g e l i s t i c

a c h i e v e m e n t j

s l o w l y a t r o p h y a n d

f a i l

t o

m e e t t h e h i g h c a l l i n g t o w o r l d w i d e

m i s

sion

that

is the open door we face NOW

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