EDITORIAL COVERAGE 2009

The editorial coverage contained within this year’s 100 full-color pages of Mission Maker Magazine 2009 consists of 3 major categories:

1. Feature Articles

GodSpace09 (Surveying All He Loves) — Learn exactly how many people alive on New Year's Day 2009 know Jesus, and how many people still don't know Jesus. Learn where the world's missionaries are — and are not. Learn more about the world's 8 major cultural people blocs, and where the top ten least evangelized cities are nations are located. Plus — the 1st-of-its-kind overview on the current status of the 2.2 million short-term missionaries going out each year.
Water and Worldviews : The Power of Biblical Ideas in a Fallen World — While Christians pursue what could be with creative energy and what ought to be with moral conviction, a fatalistic worldview brings unnecessary suffering ( by Udo Middelmann).
Setting the Sheep on Fire : Igniting a Mission Passion in Your Church — If we don’t ease up on the busyness, we’ll never burn for Jesus among the nations. We’ll die tired and frustrated (by Shane Bennett)

The Lausanne Movement — A covenant, a global conversation, and an invitation ( by Julia Cameron).
What Guides Your Decisions? — 5 significant sets of sometimes opposing mission decision-making philosphies ( by Charles Gailey and Howard Culbertson).
I Thirst — Seizing woman-at-the-well opportunities in worldwide missions (by Mary Alan Woodward)
Narrative, Communion, and Developement — Get with it! Transformational short-term missions ( by Dan Rickett).
What Shoe Salesmen Know that You Don’t — How to bless donors and fund missionaries ( by Shane Bennett and Jeff Beeson ).
Getting Down to the Business of Mission — Discipling the nations through business ( by Susanna Shenk).
His Way is in the Whirlwind — Miracles in Myanmar ( by Deb Wade).
A Global Vision for Your Church — Great checklist for church mission departments and mission committees ( by David Mays).
This Isn’t Easy — God’s call to the parents of missionaries ( by Diane Stortz and Cheryl Savageau)
Finding Your Cross-Cultural Parnter — Critical questions both parties must ask of each other ( by Dan Rickett).
Missio Dei or “Missio Me”? — Short-term missions with the right vision ( by Roger Peterson).

3 Unreached Peoples — We'll help you pray for 0.5 million Wa of Myanmar, 1.1 million Maguindinao of the Philippines, and 73 million Vietnamese of Vietnam ( by Mission Maker Magazine and OMF International).
8-page Mission Resource Catalogue — more than 90 great mission books and mission tools to help you do a better job at regular mission, frontier mission, and short-term mission ( by STEM Press).
QuickScan Listings and Directory Indexes — Need to find someone who can help you fulfill that passion God has put in your heart? Find dozens of organizations ready to help you: Sending and Receiving Organizations; Mission Ministry Equippers; and Product and Service Providers ( by Mission Maker Magazine's great Advertisers).