Category Archives: Missions
Autobiography of Canadian Missionary Evangelist John Abraham
Abraham, John. Living in the Supernatural Dimension: Right Choice Now—Best Life Forever. [Laurence M. Van Kleek, Editor]. Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press, 2012. A new autobiography of missionary evangelist John Abraham, Living in the Supernatural Dimension, shares the story of his … Continue reading
1981 Interview with Everett Phillips
Everett L. Phillips, former missionary to Nigeria, West Africa and former field secretary for Africa, is interviewed by Dr. Delbert H. Tarr at the Assemblies of God Graduate School, Springfield, Missouri, January 21, 1981. ID: V014
1981 Interview with Murray Brown, Sr.
Dr. Delbert H. Tarr interviews Murray N. Brown, Sr., in Springfield, Missouri, March 4, 1981. They are discussing Brown’s work as an Assemblies of God missionary in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), West Africa. ID: V005
Review: German Pentecostal Church Planting
Clark, Paul. German Pentecostal Church Planting, 1945-2005: Implications for Intentional Mission in the Twenty-First Century. Benton Harbor, MI: Priority Publishing, 2011. Pentecostalism is booming. From Capetown to Singapore to Rio de Janeiro, the barely hundred-year-old movement is making its presence … Continue reading
Seize the Moment
How will the current economic troubles affect the Assemblies of God? According to common wisdom, economic downturns bring spiritual upturns. As the theory goes, when people discover they cannot be self-sufficient, they look for spiritual solutions to their problems. But … Continue reading
1919 Assemblies of God Missionary: Compassion Must Accompany Preaching
“A Christianity that coldly sits down, and goes on its routine of formal work, and allows its fellowmen to starve, or to be obliged to go through all the hard sufferings and exposure connected with famine, without effort to help … Continue reading
Review: Good News in the Amazon
Good News in the Amazon: Heavenly Adventures in a Primitive Green Hell, by David E. Hansen. Rockleigh, NJ: The Author, 2010. David Hansen, an Assemblies of God missionary, gives a firsthand account of the mission work to unreached remote tribes in Peru in … Continue reading
Review: Healing Hands
Healing Hands: Touching the Suffering through Medical Missions, by Peggy Johnson Knutti. Springfield, MO: Access Group, 2010. It seems to be a common assumption in some quarters that, about 100 years ago, there occurred in American Protestantism a division between those who truly … Continue reading
Review: History of the BFP in Germany
Der Auftrag bleibt: Der Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden auf dem Weg ins dritte Jahrtausend, by Dieter Hampel, Richard Krüger, and Gerhard Oertel. Erzhausen, Germany: Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden, 2009. Der Auftrag bleibt: Der Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden auf dem Weg ins dritte Jahrtausend … Continue reading
