Entering the Greenhouse

From the President
"From Everywhere to Everywhere, by Everyone"

On the Radar
Significant news and trends
Leadership Conference Update and Election Results...The EFCA's First Ethnic & Next-Generation Church-Planting Workshop...Transitions on our National Leadership Team...In Memory of Marlie Snider

Entering the Greenhouse
Cover Features
Entering the Greenhouse...Not Your Same Old Missions...Our Relationship with the World...Playing Second Fiddle...Homegrown Missionaries...Connecting Churches to the Field

Impressions
Thoughts from EFCA Leaders
What It's Like When a Pastoral Family Suffers...A Theology of Suffering

Among All People
The diversity of our movement
EFCA Congregation Evacuates during Hurricane Katrina

Across the Movement
Stories of God at Work
Church-Planting Awards

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Fall 2005 Issue

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From our cover theme on "Growing a Heart for Missions" . . . To read additional insights from Superintendent Ves Sheely on training indigenous leaders (referenced on page 18), please click here. To read more from Pastor Mel Loucks about the role of the senior pastor in missions (referenced on page 19), please click here.

For more thoughts on the topic of suffering, click here to read Rev. John Herman's article, "A Theology of Suffering: Learning from Job's experience" (referenced on page 24).

For an update on EFCA Compassion Ministries' tsunami relief (referenced on page 29), please click here.