Front Cover [Do not print] Replace with page 1 of cover PDF WILLIAM CAREY LIBRARY NEW RELEASE Developing Indigenous Leaders Lessons in Mission from Buddhist Asia (SEANET 10) Every movement is only one generation from dying out. Leadership development remains the critical issue for mission endeavors around the world. How are leaders developed from the local context for the local context? What is the role of the expatriate in this process? What models of hope are available for those seeking further direction in this area, particularly in mission to the Buddhist world of Asia? To answer these and several other questions, SEANET proudly presents the tenth volume in its series on practical missiology, Developing Indigenous Leaders: Lessons in Mission from Buddhist Asia. Each chapter in this volume is written by a practitioner and a mission scholar. Th e ten authors come from a wide range of ecclesial and national backgrounds and represent service in ten diff erent Buddhist contexts of Asia. With biblical integrity and cultural sensitivity, these chapters provide honest refl ection, insight, and guidance. Th ere is perhaps no more crucial issue than the development of dedicated indigenous leaders who will remain long after missionaries have returned home. If you are concerned about raising up leaders in your ministry in whatever cultural context it may be, this volume will be an important addition to your library. ISBN: 978-0-87808-040-3 List Price: $17.99 Paul H. De Neui Our Price: $14.39 WCL | Pages 243 | Paperback 2013 3 or more: $9.89 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 May 2013 RECORDS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS U.S. Center for World Mission 1605 East Elizabeth Street Dear Praying Friends, Pasadena, CA 91104-2721 Tel: (330) 626-3361 Many GPD issues have started [email protected] out going in one direction and MANAGING EDITOR ended up going another way. Keith Carey Th is one started out featuring ASSISTANT EDITOR Singapore. Th e background Paula Fern article was written, and the WRITERS writers had the information they Glenn Culbertson needed to write about unreached Patricia Depew people groups in that exciting cosmopolitan city. Patti Ediger Wesley Kawato But this issue went “through Seoul, South Korea” so Arlene Knickerbocker to speak. I visited Korea to attend a meeting in late Esther Jerome-Dharmaraj Christopher Lane November, 2012, and met fi eld missionaries who told Annabeth Lewis me about a better way to direct our prayers this month. Charles Newcombe Most of the unreached people groups in Singapore Ted Proffi tt Lydia Reynolds are already engaged, meaning there is a work going Jeff Rockwell on among them. So I quickly included unreached Jean Smith Malay speaking peoples from nearby Malaysia and Jane W. Sveska people groups in Indonesia’s huge island of Sumatra. DAILY BIBLE COMMENTARIES Geographically, the places are close to one another, but Dave Dougherty, Director of Plans and Training, OMF Intl. this issue now covers people groups in three countries Keith Carey, Managing Editor, GPD rather than one. In this way I hope that we will be CUSTOMER SERVICE praying for peoples with less access to the gospel. Dan Eddy We will still be praying for some unreached peoples GRAPHICS in Singapore on days 7-10. Th e rest of the issue will Amanda Valloza feature highly unreached peoples in nearby areas. PRINTER In Christ, Diversifi ed Printers , La Mirada, CA Keith Carey, managing editor, GPD WEB SITE www.globalprayerdigest.org ISSN 1045-9731 Contents of the Global Prayer Digest © 2013 U.S. Center for World Mission PS--If you get the chance, take a look at our sister 1605 East Elizabeth Street publication, Mission Frontiers (Missionfrontiers.org) Pasadena, CA 91104 this month and next. Th ey have some excellent, in- Contents of this booklet may be depth information on unreached people in East Asia reproduced if appropriate credit and subscription information are given. that will be useful for GPD intercessors. Mission Frontiers is presently doing a “12 months/12 blocs” For subscription information, call (330) 626-3361. series that highlights some of the least-reached people For comments on content, clusters in the 12 affi nity blocs that are home to 80 call (626) 398-2241. percent of the world’s unreached peoples. 4 Feature of the Month Pray for a Strong Church for Every People Group in Singapore, Malaysia, and Sumatra Island MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur SINGAPORE Sumatra 5 To Help You Pray Better Singapore: The Island That Leads a Continent How Singapore Came into Existence Th is major city was a product of the Napoleonic Wars fought between 1804 and 1815. Th e fi ghting wasn’t limited to Europe. Britain, France, and the —By Wesley Kawato Netherlands had colonies all over the world. At that time the Netherlands was an ally of France. Early in the Napoleonic Wars Britain had taken the port of Malacca from the Netherlands to serve as a strategic supply base. Th e Dutch controlled the nearby islands of Indonesia. Britain invaded some of those islands and controlled them for a time. When the war ended the resulting peace treaty required Britain to return those islands to the Netherlands. A second treaty forced the British to return the Port of Malacca to the Dutch in 1818. Th e loss of Malacca made the British position in that region vulnerable. Th e Strait of Malacca controlled the direct sea route between India and China. Th e British desperately needed this port to protect their trade route and to serve as a supply base for their ships sailing between India and China. Create Internationalw Create 6 Background Singapore: The Island That Leads a Continent During the early 1800s the British East India Company ran the day-to- day aff airs of Great Britain in Asia. In 1819 that company sent Stamford Raffl es to the Malay Peninsula to fi nd a suitable new port that could serve as the British supply base in that region. Raffl es quickly turned his attention to Singapore Island, located at the tip of the Malay Peninsula. In 1819 that island was sparsely populated and was owned by a number of tribal chiefs. Raffl es purchased the island from them on behalf of the British East India Company. The Development of Singapore Shortly after that Raffl es was appointed governor for the Malay region. Governor Raffl es drew up the architectural plans for the new city he named Singapore. Th e construction of Singapore began in 1822. Around the time construction began, Raffl es drew up Singapore’s fi rst legal code. Slavery and gambling were outlawed from the start. Once buildings started to be completed, settlers arrived from India, China, and Great Britain. Singapore’s strategic location quickly caused it to grow into a strategic port on the India to China trade route. In 1824 the British government took direct control over Singapore, relieving the British East Asia Company of governing duties. Singapore remained a British colony until modern times. Th ere was a brief period of Japanese control during World War II. Japan invaded Singapore in 1942, but returned that island to Britain after losing the war in 1945.