The Facilitator Era: Beyond Pioneer Church Multiplication

Some time ago, Ralph Winter brilliantly identified three eras of modern missions: Era 1: William Carey focused on the coastlands; Era 2: Hudson Taylor focused on the inlands; Era 3: Donald McGavran and Cameron Townsend focused on unreached peoples. With all the fast and furious changes swirling around us today in twenty-first century missions, have we entered a Fourth Era? If so, who are the people primarily involved? How are they selected? How are they trained? How long do they serve? Has the Third Era ministry focus--reaching the unreached--changed? If so, to what? Are there any successful case studies out there? Have McGavran and Townsend passed the baton to a new leader(s)? If so, to whom? This book seeks to answer these and related questions.Contributors include:Dr. Ben BecknerDr. Monroe BrewerDr.Don FinleyMike GriffisDr. Gary Hipp, MDJerry HogsheadKaikou MaisuJudy MannaKenn OkeDr. A. Sue RussellDr. Robert StraussPeter SwannBryan ThomasDiane ThomasDr. Mike WilsonDr. Sherwood G. Lingenfelter