The IJFM is published in the name of the International
Student Leaders Coalition for Frontier Missions,
a fellowship of younger leaders committed to the purposes
of the twin consultations of Edinburgh 1980: The World
Consultation on Frontier Missions and the International
Student Consultation on Frontier Missions. As an
expression of the ongoing concerns of Edinburgh 1980, the
IJFM seeks to:
Mission frontiers, like other frontiers, represent boundaries or barriers beyond which we must go yet beyond which we may not be able to see clearly and boundaries which may even be disputed or denied. Their study involves the discovery and evaluation of the unknown or even the reevaluation of the known. But unlike other frontiers, mission frontiers is a subject specifically concerned to explore and exposit areas and ideas and insights related to the glorification of God in all the nations (peoples) of the world, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. Subscribers and other readers of the IJFM (due to ongoing promotion) come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Mission professors, field missionaries, young adult mission mobilizers, college librarians, mission executives, and mission researchers all look to the IJFM for the latest thinking in frontier missiology.
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