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Warnln : Not readin this ro ect could serlousl dama e our heal h Baptist Theological RECEIV ' D i nary Library ague 3' 0 -08- 1999 ublic ONTENTS features 10 The BMS millennium starts here! Is Geoff Bland a party-pooper? Important dates in Brazil 14 When time stands still Delyth Wyn Davies discovers African time 18 Four new years in 365 days? Getting in step with the Nepali calendar regulars A new series about emerging church leaders 20 Our Town Featuring Lisbon 26 Volunteers and Action Teams Where's Wigtown? ask an Action Team 28 People, Projects, Prayer Latest news and updates credits General Director Alistair Brown Managing Editor Richard Wells Editor Jan Kendall Regular Contributors Alistair Brown, Owen Clark, Steve Flashman, Sam Gibson, Jan Kendall, Dik Lapine, Vinoth Ramachandra Design Editors Sarah Prentice, Carolyn Tabor Director for Missionaries David Kerrigan (for enquiries about service) Printed by Halcyon Print & Design, Heathfield, East Sussex Subscriptions for 1999 mh and BMS Prayer Guida are published as a complete package, £6.60 through church mh distribut~rs, £9.30 by direct mail (incp &p). Six issues of mh plus three of BMS Prayer Guide. Overseas £19.20 The views and opinions expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of the BMS. Address PO Box 49, 129 Broadway, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 8XA Telephone 01235 517700 Fax 01235 517601 Web site (until mid Sept) www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/bms/index.htm Web site (from mid Sept) www.bms.org.uk E-mail Editorial: [email protected] E-mail Other departments: [email protected] Registered charity no 233782 COVER PICTURE MONTAGE BY SARAH PRENTICE CONTENTS PAGE PICTURE CHURCH AT UPOTO IN THE SUNSET © Copyright 1999 Baptist Missionary Society ISSN 0264-1372 . m/J (Missionary Herald) The magazine of the Baptist Missionary Society Publications mh september 1 october 1999 3 ........... ... .... .......w.o.rld .:..n .e.w.s. CD Q. -· Tme -it either flies by or hangs r+ heavy. If you're engrossed in something requiring an attention 0 to detail or having fun, then it 0)' swiftly passes; if you're bored, restless, lonely or ill, then it can drag. We try hard to give coverage to a wide range of issues and subjects in mh 0 are unable to walk because of over the year. Some will, by their very birth defects or accidents; CD wheelchairs and other such nature, be more upfront mission- Q. related topics; others will serve as aids are not available because r+ background material for developing of a lack of funding. our understanding and broadening 0 The Anastasis, one of YWAM's Mercy Ships fleet, horizons of mission work and 0)' missionary activities. had just completed a three With millennium fever gripping the month outreach in Guinea, UK, we thought we would take a West Africa. The ship's slightly more oblique look at a topic 0 carpenter,Juris Zvaigne, was this time - that of time, and the so touched by the people's CD plight that he turned to his importance different nations and Q. people groups assign to it. And as for -· workbench, to make recycled us living at the dawn of a new r+ 'shoes.' "Nobody cared about millennium - we discovered a lot of 0 them," said Zvaigne, a former people for whom the passing from 31 ' tailor from Latvia, "and as a December 1999 to 1 January 2000 0) result they have even lost will be just another night to be interest in doing struggled through. There will be no something for special significance attached to it; no 0 themselves." YWAM The wooden sense of history; no special occasion (D to celebrate. blocks are (And by the way, if you are going to be Q, individually tailored to doing something unusual that's F9" mission-related, on the threshold of 0 requirements. the new century, do write and let us Zvaigne took some old deck beams, padded them with know. We'd love to feature you and Q)' your activity on our World Mission rubber formerly used for Link page.) packing electronic As a bonus you'll find our Christmas equipment and added rubber catalogue in the centre of this 0 soles made from plumbing Guinea materials. They are then magazine. There are new ranges of CD goods together with old favourites, strapped to their hands using Q. Disabled get a leather strap. Once worn and we hope you will buy gifts and -· cards for family and friends. Every r+ shoes recycled they help protect against cuts item purchased is helping the work of 0 and infection. BMS, making Jesus known. ' from ships Each pair took up to five Hope you feel reading this mh is time 0) hours to complete as Zvaigne well spent! worked in his spare time. A forgotten community of The new aids were presented With best wishes 0 disabled people now have a when Mercy Ship workers permanent reminder of the visited the community to (D care shown to them by make friends and tell people Q, members of a visiting about Christ. "I felt it was an = • F9" hospital ship. The important opportunity to 0 community of Solidarity was bring hope - to show these J~ set up outside Conakry by people that somebody does ' the government some years care about them," said Q) ago. The people living there Zvaigne. (YWAM News) 4 september j october 1999 mh world .. news ......................... Brazil Brazil's Catholic bishops have decided to ask forgiveness for its part in nearly four centuries of slavery, at next year's commemoration of the :::J 500th anniversary of the first European landing in Brazil. An estimated four million slaves were transported from Africa to Brazil between the implications of early 1500s and 1888 when Brazil officially Christianity and CD abolished slavery. Priests not only accepted consider how ~ slavery, but sometimes even kept slaves. (LAP) Christianity is -..,-..rni.\•• relevant in China. Q Italy The speakers were A modern ecumenical translation of Luke's gospel all Chinese in seven languages - Italian, German, English, Christian leaders Spanish, French,Japanese and Arabic - has been from all over the printed by the United Bible Societies. It is ,.,.....a.,,:.;:'--....-.......:-"-'--~........ ~....L.1..i...c-__;;,.JJ.___ __. world. One of available free of charge in hotels in Rome. The them, Dr David Aikman, President of the Federation of Protestant former Beijing bureau chief Churches in Italy said 'holy theft' should not only China/United for Time Magazine, :::J be tolerated, but encouraged. (nev) commenting on 'China 99' States said it gave scholars an IT Guatemala "opportunity to learn as ~ Proposals by the Guatemalan coffee producers to Chinese leaders much as possible about how CD eliminate a minimum wage for their farm workers the Christian faith can ~ have been rejected by the General Guatemalan learn about change the lives, not just of Workers central who say it will lead to individuals, but of entire 0 exploitation of workers. It is claimed the Christ nations." He commented, "I minimum wage of US $2.75 per day is the have always said that Chinese workers only guarantee of a steady income. The Hundreds of Chinese leaders students and scholars in the National Coffee Association has suggested paying who are studying in the US are the single most employees on a per unit basis instead of a daily United States have attended strategic missionary target wage, maintaining it will increase productivity. a conference in San Diego, group in the world." (LAP) California in which they The Chinese students stayed Jordan learnt about the basic beliefs with American host families, :::J of Christianity. and were able to visit local Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary QETS) The conference, 'China 99' tourist attractions. American rr has now received all approvals to purchase eight was run by Dr Tom Phillips, Christians also attended - ~ acres of land in Amman, according to a report President of International there was an English from president lmad Shehadeh. The procedure Students Inc (ISI), a 45 year­ interpretation available - and (D involved approvals from Jordanian intelligence old organisation of Christian sought to make­ ~ and government officials for land ownership. volunteers who want to have one-to-one "This is full recognition ofJETS and all it stands friendships with international friendships with 0 for," said Shehadeh. "God has indeed blessed students at US colleges. Chinese JETS in its unique presence and ministry in the They help students learn - in :::J Middle East." (EBPS) Mandarin - more about CD Kenya culture and, if ~ Joseph Misha, vice moderator of the Baptist (f) they are Convention of Kenya has said, "There are interested, also 400,000 baptised members in 2,100 churches about basic and 400 preaching points. We have tried to reach Christian every place, every village and every one of our 42 beliefs. IT tribes."(BWA) Conference ~ (D .__ __. ~ _________________ ASSIST COMMUNICATIONS mh september ! october 1999 5 .. ........................world .. .news centre in the world - problems or concerns, and designed to reach out to the we have an opportunity to millions in cyberspace. come alongside and befriend Other Christian groups and them. I heard of one retired organisations have previously man who led several people used the World Wide Web to to Christ in just a few months present the gospel, typically by going on-line. through 'seeker sensitive' "Linking the cyber­ sites that draw curious evangelists in a team is browsers to them. important. A lot of Christians Allan Carrington, the shy away from the Internet project's team leader said, "I because of the negative way it am talking about being more is used for things like proactive and going out into pornography.

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