Links: Current Internet Resources

Spark has been developed by the Vernacular Media Services department at JAARS. It provides information about producing dubbed Luke and Jesus videos, vernacular audio cassettes, and creative ways to implement these in a language project. You can also contribute useful ideas you have used or developed to facilitate Scripture use.



 

Explore this treasure box of resources on how to implement Bible storying and understand Oral communicators in order to be effective in communicating the message.



International Journal of Frontier Missions now has all their issues online at no cost. Each article is a separate .pdf download. Articles by SIL and others address a wide variety of Scripture promotion and missiology issues.

 



 

Wycliffe is partnering with Campus Crusade, IMB (Southern Baptists), YWAM (Youth with a Mission), Trans World Radio, and The Seed Company to develop vernacular Bible storying — both as a promoter of Scripture use where vernacular Scriptures are available, and also in pioneering situations where no Scriptures are yet translated. This a wonderful 2-year mission opportunity.



Wheaton College maintains this, the best place to start searching for mission and Christian teaching information.

 



Join the strategic network of missions working in frontier situations. Developed by Scott Moreau, current chair of the Wheaton College Anthropology Department.

 



 

The parent site of Christianity Today magazine has many links to other Christian sources and information, such as Christian History magazine, as well as to mission news.



Gospelcom.net, a production of Gospel Communications, is good for Bible teaching resources, including Bibles in many languages.

 



 

Net Ministries contains a vast list of denominational web sites, good for finding out about a denomination in preparation for speaking at one of their conferences or Bible colleges.



The Gospel and Our Culture Network has some fine articles on gospel and culture; its focus is the Gospel and Christian living in American culture.

 



 

Here you will find the only online missiology “journal” - the occasional paper put out by Gailyn van Reenan, at the Church of Christ College in Abilene, Texas, director of Mission Alive. These reflections cover a wide range of practical missions issues and attempt to offer missiologically and theologically sound suggestions.



 

Brigada is a good beginning point for lay people wanting to be involved in missions and for short term (under 2 month) mission activities.



 

This modern Native American Christian movement, with which Richard Twiss is affiliated, is a good source for some key missiological ideas, especially about appropriate cultural expressions of Christian faith. Wiconi links to several other similar Native American ministries.



Evangelists, nationals, and missionaries rediscover successful methods for reaching the lost by presenting the Bible just as Jesus, Stephen, Peter, and Paul did.

 



 

Peoplegroups.org provides information on people groups around the world. It sorts the people groups by country, and it is fully searchable. It gives information on a group’s official name, other names the group is known by, their primary language, primary religion, and population. If you have information on a people group, or wish to add one to their database, you have the opportunity to submit that information.