COVER SECTION

How does your missions garden grow?
This spring, Take your churchs missions strategy from good to great
Youve probably seen the book and heard how the process works. Jon Walker shows us how churches can apply the Good to Great corporate principles and become hedgehogs in fulfilling the Acts 1:8 Challenge.

FEATURES

Reaching lindsay
When the Good News seems anything but relevant to some people, how do we reach a generation with a postmodern worldview?

planting seeds among internationals
See the mosaic of North America as a worldwide mission field in your own backyard. Part one in a series on reaching the nations on our continent looks at French-Canadians and Haitian-Americans.

Dropping anchor AT THE CROSS
Set afloat by tragedy and disillusionment, a soul finds solid ground in the words of truth from an on mission Christian.

Whatever-it-takes churches
Three churches doing whatever-it-takes to make a difference: reaching urbanites through the arts; college students with coffee; and down-and-outs and addicts with education and outreach.

Church growth: when the formulas dont work
Move from cookie-cutter to missional-minded in your outreach. Plus, hear from four pastors who are moving outside the box into their communities.

The old, old story
Learn the importance of storying and other techniques in reaching the growing population of oral communicators in your community.

The five w's for five days
What are you doing in your neighborhood? Reach the kids down the street with Backyard Bible Clubs.

Donning the armor
Learn how five on mission Christians prepare daily to share Christ in the real world.

COLUMNS

Staff notes  by Carolyn Curtis
What I learned from Ocimar

Awakenings  by Henry Blackaby
Moving missions beyond programs

Answer His Call  by Bob Reccord
Make every day extraordinary

DEPARTMENTS

Vitals

The Pulse

Acts 1:8 missionaries