The Mission Magazine
of The United Methodist ChurchNew World Outlook: January-February 1997
Hong Kong: One Country, Two Systems
A photo essay by Gail Coulson, United Methodist missionary in Hong Kong. Her photos show
Hong Kong today, in Britain's last few months of sovereignty, while she envisions tomorrow,
when Hong Kong returns to China as a Special Administrative Region.
A Silent Murder: The Food Crisis in North Korea
Sarah Strawn updates readers on the devastating effects of flood and famine on the people of
North Korea. United Methodists can respond to the mounting needs through UMCOR.
The Postmodern World: A New Context for Mission
Missionary Raymond DeHainaut and postmodernist author Darrell Fasching discuss the
requirements of mission in a world that is recovering from the "progress" made in the modern era.
A Church Reaches Out in Little Rock The Theressa Hoover United Methodist Church, named for a dynamic leader of United Methodist Women, provides its own dynamic outreach ministry, serving the community in Little Rock, Arkansas.
"Until We Eat Stone Soup": The Wesley-Rankin Center
For nearly a century, Wesley-Rankin Community Center has answered the prayers of a west
Dallas community. Empowering, nuturing, and fighting for rights, the center's staff members find
its services are needed just as much today as when it was founded in 1902.
Landmines, Fallout of War
New World Outlook offers this special four-page study guide to readers who want to concentrate
on the global problem of landmines. This Church World Service study is introduced by the
president of the General Board of Global Ministries, Bishop Dan E. Solomon.
The Baltic Mission Center: 50 Years of Prayer
Patrick Friday, North American director of the Baltic Mission Center, updates readers on the
progress of the first seminary and church center to be built in the former Soviet Union. He
describes both the growing structure and the growing programs now being offered by the United
Methodist Church of Estonia.
A Covenant to Care
The Troy Conference in the Northeastern United States forms a covenant with the Northeastern
Missionary Region of Brazil. Shirley Byers chronicles the building of an international partnership
and personal contacts that cut across cultural lines to build Christian fellowship.
Index
The January-February issue is a valuable resource every year because it contains the index for all
the articles of the previous year.
