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Dr. Avery Willis interview 1998

Descrição:: Dr. Avery Willis was the Senior Vice President for Overseas Operations of the International Mission Board. The interview begins with Dr. Willis giving a background of his call to missions and his life in ministry (00:00-05:47). He briefly speaks on the restructuring of the IMB into regions (05:48-07:34). Dr. Willis defines the “new paradigm” of missions of seeking to find what God is doing in bringing people to saving faith (07:35-09:22). Dr. Willis defines the “cutting edge” in missions as being on edge of lostness, and he argues why they IMB needed to be restructured to focus on people groups and to get more laymen involved in missions (09:23-13:45). Dr. Willis defines the difference between “harvest field” and “unreached,” and this is reflected in the move towards looking at people groups rather than nations (13:46-15:13). He believes that there is a biblical mandate to reach everybody including both categories of the “harvest fields” and the “unreached” (15:14-16:09). Dr. Willis speaks on the how the funding for resources going towards the evangelization of unreached people groups has gone up over time and mentions how resources and have been shifted specifically for unreached people groups (16:10-19:36). Dr. Willis makes the prediction that a larger percentage of people will be involved in international missions, the third world will be producing more missionaries, and the center of the church will move to the third world by 2010 (19:37-22:20). Dr, Willis’ closing comment is that the church must always be listening to God and discovering his strategy for reaching the unreached, and he believes that today is the great day for mission (22:21-23:52).
Sujeito:: Missions, Reorganization, Ethnic groups, and Evangelistic work
O Criador:: Lewis A. Drummond Center for Great Commission Studies
Língua:: English
Data Criada:: March 1998
Tipo de recurso:: Audio
Identificador:: Dr. Avery Willis Mar98_orig_1_1

Dr. Cal Guy interview

Descrição:: Dr. Cal Guy was the Emeritus Professor of Missions at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The interview begins with Dr. Guy giving a background of his life in ministry and his interest in missions (00:00-04:23). He speaks about the mission vision of D.A McGavern that emphasizes bringing people to Christ, and he talks about the difficulty McGavern had in getting his books published and his vision to be accepted by evangelicals (04:24-11:16). Dr. Guy then speaks on McGavorn’s influence on his teaching, and he talks about the slow acceptance and implementation of McGavorn’s church growth and mission strategies in the Southern Baptist Convention (11:17-18:44). He points to the clarity of the mission strategy of the SBC as being connected to McGavorn’s influence (18:45-23:56). Dr. Guy believes that McGavern’s influence was a seed that flourished into the modern mission strategy of Southern Baptists, though there are now other components that did not originate with McGavern (23:57-26:30). Dr. Guy gives a final word praising the Lord for the opportunity he has had to train and recruit future missionaries (26:31-32:07).
Sujeito:: Missions, Church growth, and Methods (Gospel)
O Criador:: Lewis A. Drummond Center for Great Commission Studies
Língua:: English
Data Criada:: April 8, 1998
Tipo de recurso:: Audio
Identificador:: 01 Dr. Cal Guy 8Apr98_orig_1_1

Dr. Michael Stroope interview

Descrição:: Audio is low quality. Dr. Michael Stroope was a Southern Baptist area director of missions in Sri Lanka. The interview begins with Stroope giving the details of his background and call to missions, and he talks about the influences that shaped his own theology and ethos of missions (0:00:00-0:0:18:17). Stroope speaks about the vision of his work as area director of missions in Sri Lanka, and he describes the administrative day to day operations on the field and how it fit his missions ethos (0:18:18-0:37:53). Stroope says that his model for missions prohibited the establishment of western institutions such as schools and conventions to not hinder indigenous church growth, and he defines the strategy his team used to enter a country or region and how they engaged the indigenous population (0:37:54-1:00:57). Stroope speaks about how the missionaries leveraged resources on the field through multiple sources, and he describes the reasons why the International Mission Board (IMB) restructured their mission strategy (1:00:58-1:10:56). Stroope speaks about the need of training missionaries by starting with the basics to avoid bad thinking and theological reasoning on the field, and he says that he is hopeful that Southern Baptist will be motivated to use the best and most biblical strategy to reach the nations with the gospel in the future. He also believes that the IMB will be less centralized and focused more on cooperation in the future (1:10:57-1:18:46). The interview concludes with Stroope stating that Southern Baptist must hold on to their distinctive while at the same time prioritizing the biblical mandate, and part of this priority means guarding the autonomy of indigenous churches (1:18:47-1:26:51).
Sujeito:: Indigenous church administration, Missions, and Sociology--Fieldwork
O Criador:: Lewis A. Drummond Center for Great Commission Studies
Língua:: English
Data Criada:: February 25, 1998
Tipo de recurso:: Audio
Identificador:: Dr. Michael Stroope 25Feb98_orig_1_1

Missions 1990's

Descrição:: CDI-01-0815: Archbishop Theophones Bethlehem; CDI-01-0816:This photograph is part of a set from a Kenya mission trip and is noted as such on the back of the photo.; CDI-01-0837: Bill Hedgpeth
Sujeito:: Missions, Evangelistic work, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Short-term missions
O Criador:: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Língua:: English
Data Criada:: 1990 to 1999
Tipo de recurso:: Graphic Materials
Identificador:: CDI-01-0802/0844