EDITORIAL COVERAGE 2008

The editorial coverage contained within this year’s 100 full-color pages of Mission Maker Magazine 2008 consists of 3 major categories:

1. Feature Articles

• GodSpace08 (Surveying All He Loves) — Learn exactly how many people alive on New Year's Day 2008 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 whether Christianity in 2008 has moved to the city ( presented by Mission Maker Magazine staff, with help from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary).
  
• The Mission of Christ's Supremacy : Placing All Things Under the Feet of Christ — In 1882, Nietzsche claimed “God is dead.” Yet after he went insane and took his own life in 1900, Nietzsche learned the Truth. It seems as though human beings’ very genetic code urges us to submit to something or Someone greater. It’s as if we are created to worship ( by Scott Bessenecker).
• Above the Storm : Short-Term Mission Volunteers Hear God’s Call After Hurricane Katrina — Relief to recovery. Recovery to restoration. They come with tools, a willingness to serve, and listening ears. “Go back up there and tell people it isn’t over yet. There’s still work to be done down here” (by Deborah Wade)
  

2. Practical Articles

• Global Missions at Home — One million internationals study in North America — this is a sovereign act of God ( by Leiton Chinn).
  
• You’re Just a MySpace Away — Technology is transforming the ways we undertake the Great Commission ( by Sabrina Wong).
  
• Where We Are — The world is changing. The church is changing. Missions is changing. Our focus is changing. Will we change (by Stan Parks)?
  
• Revolution in Medical Missions — Jesus healed people because they were sick. He had no ulterior motives. He simply wanted to restore people to wholeness — physical, emotional, and spiritual — and restore their community ( by Dr. Dan Fountain).
  
• What Is Missions? — Define missions. Set missions boundaries. Categorize and distribute mission resources. Establish God’s glory ( by David Mays).
  
• Lessons from Business Travelers — What do New Yorkers call people who get out of taxis saying, "Gee, what tall buildings!” Tourists? No — New Yorkers call them victims. Explore personal safety for missionaries ( by Walter N. Clements).
  
• The Power of Story in Mission — Model. Method. Mentor. Mandate. How do we best reach oral learners ( by Caryn Pederson).
  
• Ten Tips for a Missionary-to-Be! — Go deep with God, Commit to character, Live flexibly — and 7 other highly-advisable tips ( by Rebekah).
• The Lighter Side of MIssions — Grasshoppers for Thanksgiving? Shining a flashlight down the pit? ( by Ann Dunagan)
  
• Prayer and Missions — No prayerless church can transport a praying religion, for a person who can pray is the mightiest instrument Christ has in this world ( by E.M. Bounds).
  

3. Action Items

• 4 Unreached Peoples — We'll help you pray for 25 million Malay of Southeast Asia, 22 million North Koreans, 3.5-million Bouyei of China, and 16 million WorkingClass Taiwanese ( by Mission Maker Magazine and OMF International).
  
• 8-page Mission Resource Catalogue — 70 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).
  

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