History of the ISFM
Despise not the day of small
things . . .
It was the prophet Zechariah
who admonished the people of God to not despise the day of
small things, but instead to rejoice in promising
beginnings. This admonition found a new application
September 19-20, 1986, when 23 North American mission
leaders from 15 agencies gathered in Colorado Springs,
Colorado to discuss goals for the year 2000 and, in
particular, to consider needs and opportunities in pioneer
church-planting. Out of these discussions emerged a
new professional society—the US Society for
Frontier Missiology.
The founding members promptly stated their hope that the
new society would become international in membership and
name. An initial purpose statement called for the society
to focus on “the promotion of thinking and sharing on an
international level in the area of missiology oriented
toward a concern for the unfinished task and toward the
significance of the year 2000 for the completion of that
task.” Links to the International Journal of Frontier
Missiology (IJFM) were forged from the outset.
Since 1986 the society has incrementally become more
international, and further progress is underway. We
welcome participation from East and West, North and South
in the International Society for Frontier Missiology.
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