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The Ralph D Winter Research Center is the new home of the Mission Frontiers archive!

Mission Frontiers Magazine has been serving practitioners in frontier mission for four decades. A publication of Frontier Ventures, Mission Frontiers Magazine is best summarized by longtime editor Rick Wood in the…

Wycliffe Bible Translators: Racing to Start a Translation in Every Language That Needs One by 2025

Mission Frontiers Wycliffe Bible Translators: Racing to Start a Translation in Every Language That Needs One by 2025 SEPT/OCT 2018 Issue 40.5 04 From the Editor by Rick Wood 06 Bible Translation as We Approach 2025 by…

Finding “Fourth-Soil” People: A Field Strategy for Movements 

Mission Frontiers  Finding “Fourth-Soil” People: A Field Strategy for Movements July/Aug 2018 Issue 40.4  04 From the Editor by Rick Wood 08 Finding Fourth-Soil People by Kevin Greeson 16 Fourth-Soil Person or Person of…

Inside North Korea: Bringing Hope and Healing to the Toughest Places 

Mission Frontiers  Inside North Korea: Bringing Hope and Healing to the Toughest Places MAY/JUNE 2018 Issue 40.3  04 From the Editor by Rick Wood 08 A Living Witness: Finding Pathways to Hope and Healing in North Korea…

Movements: Learning to Cross the “Bridges of God”

Mission Frontiers Movements: Learning to Cross the “Bridges of God” MAR/APR 2018 Issue 40.2 04 From the Editor by Rick Wood 06 Indigenous Movements: How Peoples are Reached by Robby Butler 16 Planting Churches: Learning…

Are you in? 24:24 The Coalition to Foster Movements in all Peoples by 2025

Mission Frontiers  Are you in? 24:24 The Coalition to Foster Movements in all Peoples by 2025 JAN/FEB 201 Issue 40.1 Table of Contents  04 From the Editor by Rick Wood 06 24:14 The War That Finally Ends by Steve Smith…

Making a Killing – The Global Death Industries & Missionary Response

Mission Frontiers  Making a Killing – The Global Death Industries & Missionary Response SEPT/OCT 2019 Issue 41.5  04 Challenging Death Industries: Duty or Distraction? by Rebecca Lewis 06 Toward the Edges by Kevin…

24:14–A Call To Foster Movements In All Peoples

Mission Frontiers  24:14–A Call To Foster Movements In All Peoples JUL/AUG 2019 Issue 41.4  04 From the Editor by Rick Wood 08 Dr. Steve Smith’s Extraordinary Vision and Legacy 14 24:14—The War That Finally Ends by…

India: The Greatest Challenge to World Evangelization

Mission Frontiers  India: The Greatest Challenge to World Evangelization MAY/JUNE 2019 Issue 41.3   04 From the Editor by Rick Wood 06 India: the Greatest Challenge to World Evangelism 12 Why the Community/Caste Focus…

Movements Everywhere: Why So Few In the West?

Mission Frontiers  Movements Everywhere: Why So Few In the West? MAR/APR 2019 Issue 41.2  04 From the Editor by Rick Wood 08 Unleashing the Kingdom on Toxic Worldviews and Declining Churches by Jerry Trousdale &…