IJFM: The Official Journal of the ISFM

The IJFM (International Journal of Frontier Missiology) 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. The IJFM is the official journal of the ISFM.

As an expression of the ongoing concerns of Edinburgh 1980, the IJFM seeks to:

• promote intergenerational dialogue between senior and junior mission leaders;

• cultivate an international fraternity of thought in the development of frontier missiology;

• highlight the need to maintain, renew, and create mission agencies as vehicles for frontier missions;

• encourage multidimensional and interdisciplinary studies;

• foster spiritual devotion as well as intellectual growth; and

• advocate “A Church for Every People.”

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.” (Acts 26:18)

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.