Contents

Winter 2005

Discovering our Spiritual DNA
When we are reborn in Christ, He instills in us a sort of new “spiritual DNA” that makes us hungry to tell others about Him, that draws us to “younger” Christians we can mentor, that opens our hearts and makes us eager to accept our responsibility for the Great Commission.

Stirring the Waters
While seven out of 10 people in North America are lost, only 11 percent of Southern Baptist churches are growing through new baptisms. This second article in a series on church growth focuses on how churches can be revitalized to reach the lost.

A Reason for the Season Party
Make Jesus the center of your celebration with a neighborhood Christmas party designed to point children to Jesus in a fun way.

Planting Seeds Among Internationals
See the mosaic of North America as a worldwide mission field in your own backyard. Part three in a series on reaching the people groups on our continent looks at Chinese-Americans and Asian-Indians.

Setting the Captives Free Eternally
Christians are going inside the guarded walls and razor wire—from wardens to chaplains to security officers—andare counting on churches to respond with mission teams who will bring spiritual awakening to the nation’s prisons and jails.

Defusing Hostility
How to keep an evangelistic opportunity from blowing up in your face.

Sound the Shofar!
Reaching God’s chosen people with the gospel of Jesus Christ—the Messiah.

This is Why We Serve
Meet six people who have answered the call to serve Christ in North America as Mission Service Corps missionaries.

Staff notes by Carol Pipes
It takes a church...

Awakenings by Henry Blackaby
Multiplying our on mission friends

Answer His Call by Bob Reccord
Help for the harvest

Vitals

The Pulse