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A MOVEMENT AMONG US

“And a little child shall lead them . . .”

By Melissa MacDonald

There is a movement afoot in the Church today, bringing with it fresh ideas, shifting focus and new strategies. This movement has the ability to completely shake what we thought was most important and to challenge us to look anew at what our churches value. This movement is about kids.

In 1990 Christian strategist Luis Bush coined the term “10/40 Window” to refer to the geographical region of the eastern hemisphere, located between 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator, where the largest group of unreached people live. For more than 20 years, missions agencies, denominations, churches and individual Christians have pulled together to reach the 10/40 Window. Encouraging indicators show that the continuing effort is bearing fruit. In 2008 the annual growth rate of Christ followers in the 10/40 Window was almost twice that of those outside it. More

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