Front Cover [Do not print] Replace with page 1 of cover PDF WILLIAM CAREYWILLIAM CAREY LIBRARY LIBRARYFEATURED BOOK From Seed To Fruit Global Trends, Fruitful Practices, andd Emerging Issues among Muslims The revised and enlarged second edition of J. Dudley Woodberry’s From Seed to Fruit expands on the next stage of the ongoing collaborative research and reflections of many people from many organizations desiring to bless Muslims. Seven additional chapters survey major trends in global Islam today and explore themes that prove to have considerable influence on fruitfulness, including a new chapter on building Christlike relationships with Muslims. The Global Trends Research Group hass continuedcontinued to update the demographic materials on MliMuslim people l groups, their hi access to Christian witness, and when and how Christian groups covenant to provide meaningful access. This is included in the updated CD-ROM that accompanies the new edition. From Seed to Fruit presents the most recent worldwide research on witness to Christ among Muslim peoples, using biblical images from nature to show the interaction between God’s activity and human responsibility in blessing these peoples.from mission history, explore liturgy as an appropriate vehicle for teaching, discuss appropriate means of communication, and point to both the need and contextually appropriate possibilities of greater involvement of women in training and ministry. ISBN: 978-0-87808-036-6 List Price: $20.99 Marvin Newell Our Price: $16.79 WCL | Pages 460 | Paperback 2011 3 or more: $11.54 www.missionbooks.org 1-800-MISSION Become a Daily World Christian What is the Global Prayer Digest? Loose Change Adds Up! Th e Global Prayer Digest is a unique devotion- In adapting the Burma Plan to our culture, al booklet. Each day it gives a glimpse we have simply substituted loose change of what God is doing around the world for rice and have added this educational and what still remains to be done. Daily and inspirational Global Prayer Digest. One prayer for that still-unfi nished task is at person’s loose change will average about the heart of the Adopt-A-People move- $100 per year exclusively for frontier ment. Condensed missionary stories, missions! When the national goal of one biblical challenges, urgent reports, and million Adopt-A-People Prayer Partners is exciting descriptions of unreached peo- reached, that will mean $100 million more ples provide a digest of rich fuel for your per year for the frontiers! own times of prayer for the world. Become a Daily World Christian Th e Global Prayer Digest is a key tool in a Devotional Ideas movement to help fulfi ll Christ’s com- How can you make the most of this prayer digest: mission to make disciples of all the peo- ples of the earth. Th is movement involves • Some people use it as a a daily discipline of learning, praying, and supplement to their regular giving to help reach the world’s nearly devotional time. 10,000 unreached people groups. Un- • Others enjoy reading and reached peoples are those groups which praying around the dinner table do not yet have a strong church in their with the entire family. own cultural and social setting. • We encourage you to gather Myanmar, Mothers and the monthly with other Christ Frontier Fellowship Movement friends who are involved in this Th e Frontier Fellowship Movement movement. is an adaptation of a custom among • Join the “Frontier Fellowship tribal Christians in Burma (now called movement” (left), a version of Myanmar) and elsewhere. As the the Burma Plan, to fi nancially mother in each family prepares meals support frontier missions. for her family, she sets aside a hand- Every day at the top of the page ful of rice in a special container, and you’ll fi nd the name of an unreached prays for their church’s missionaries to people group for which to pray. Th e unreached people groups. Rice from small maps will help you locate the families in the church is sold to support day’s feature. their frontier missionaries. 3 Editorial November 2014 RECORDS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS U.S. Center for World Mission 1605 East Elizabeth Street Dear Praying Friends, Pasadena, CA 91104-2721 Tel: (330) 626-3361 I am of English, Irish, and Swedish [email protected] descent. Eighteen hundred years ago MANAGING EDITOR my Irish ancestors were headhunters Keith Carey who drank blood from the skulls of ASSISTANT EDITOR their victims. A thousand years ago Paula Fern my Viking ancestors were so cruel WRITERS when they raided and destroyed Glenn Culbertson unprotected villages that they Patricia Depew made the Dark Ages much darker. Eventually the light of Patti Ediger Wesley Kawato the gospel turned many in these people groups to Christ, Arlene Knickerbocker the One who alone is the Light of the World. Th eir culture Esther Jerome-Dharmaraj changed, and they began to live more by the teachings of Christopher Lane Annabeth Lewis Jesus and less by the ways of the world. Robert Rutz Human history teaches us that without Christ people can Ted Proffi tt Lydia Reynolds be unbelievably cruel to one other. Jeff Rockwell Jean Smith Th is month we will be praying for the Pashtuns. It might Jane W. Sveska seem like we are judging these Afghan and Pakistani tribes. DAILY BIBLE COMMENTARIES But we must remember that without the transforming work Keith Carey of the Holy Spirit, we would be no diff erent than they are. David Dougherty Robert Rutz Th e Pashtuns have a cultural code of honor called CUSTOMER SERVICE pashtunwali, which puts a certain amount of restraint Dan Eddy on their behavior, but also spurs them to greater acts of Diane Tolsma violence and vengeance. For this reason, we will not only Lois Carey pray for specifi c Pashtun tribes, but also for aspects of the GRAPHICS pashtunwali code of honor and other cultural dynamics that Matt Anderson can keep Pashtuns from doing what God wants them to do. We will pray, not against certain behavior, but for the Holy PRINTER Diversifi ed Printers , La Mirada, CA Spirit to lead the people to ways that will honor God and save them from destructive behavior. WEB SITE www.globalprayerdigest.org In Christ, ISSN 1045-9731 Contents of the Global Prayer Digest © 2014 U.S. Center for World Mission 1605 East Elizabeth Street Keith Carey, editor, GPD Pasadena, CA 91104 Contents of this booklet may be We still need volunteers with web design, app, and reproduced if appropriate credit and computer skills. Let me know if you or someone you know subscription information are given. can help us strengthen this prayer movement. For subscription information, [email protected] call (330) 626-3361. For comments on content, call (626) 398-2241. 4 Feature of the Month Pray for a Discipleship-Making Movement in Every Pashtun Community Arabian Sea Bay of Bengal Tur k- menistan Kabul AFGHANISTAN Islamabad PAKISTAN INDIA India 5 To Help You Pray Better Will the Unconquerable Pashtuns Be Conquered By the Love of Christ? — by Keith Carey arriors, poets, and Bollywood actors. Th e Pashtun W peoples have excelled in all three of these roles. It is easy to put them in a simplistic box. For example, the violent and cruel Taliban are noted for being dominated by Pashtun individuals. Yet, as you will see on day 20, there are entire Pashtun tribes that adamantly oppose the Taliban. Most of the Pashtun people are very traditional and conservative, but those who are in the movie industry are most likely going to adhere to a liberal worldview. Th ere are many contradictions when someone tries to describe these 50 million people. Even the defi nition of what makes up a Pashtun depends on who is defi ning them. Most would agree that speaking one of the related Pashto dialects is a key qualifi cation. Others would stress issues of lineage. To be a Pashtun you need to have a father who is Pashtun. Background 6 The Pashtun People Th ere are cultural issues as well. A key ingredient to being Pashtun is adhering to pashtunwali, the Pashtun code of honor. Pashtunwali is so central to the Pashtun peoples that many of this month’s prayer entries will focus on various aspects of this cultural way of life. Pashtunwali keeps some semblance of order in their communities, but it also allows the “might makes right” ethic to dominate their communities. Some would say that you must be a Sunni Muslim to be Pashtun. Th is idea, however, is controversial; while most Pashtuns are Sunni, there are a few Shi’ite Pashtuns. Some of them are embracing Christ as we approach the day of His return, yet currently this number is only a trickle. Independence as a Way of Life Many countries have tried to conquer the Pashtuns. Some have succeeded… for a season. Th en the inevitable backlash comes, and the invaders must leave. At the height of the British Empire in the 19th Century, the Pashtuns caused so many casualties that the Brits eventually made deals with them and learned to settle for less than they wanted in South Asia. After the British had to give independence to their South Asian colonies in 1947, India was divided along religious lines. A good percentage of the Pashtuns lived in part of the new Muslim nation of Pakistan. Th e Pashtuns proved to be ungovernable, so the Pakistanis simply called their land the “Northwest Frontier Province,” and granted them a large degree of autonomy. To this day the government in Islamabad has little control over this province, which has since been re-named Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after the famous Khyber Pass.