FEATURES

• "Can We Rescue the Children?," by Stan Meek. Even in societies where basic needs are abundantly met, children experience anguish of a different kind. Confusion, fear, and insecurity lead to anger and alienation. What is driving this cultural crisis among our young? And what can be done to rescue our children?

• "A Little Child Will Lead Them," by Sherry Pinson. Gaylan and Sandy Good answered God's call at retirement, when many people might think their work was over. Their work has taken them to children, whose lives are just beginning.

• "Challenge: It's in Our Bones, The Mission of the Church of the Nazarene," by Ron Benefiel. The third in a series of articles on the greatest challenges facing the Church of the Nazarene in the third millennium asks: Is the mission that God impressed upon our early leaders still the mission for the church today? If we are to follow the call of God on our lives and on our church, we must again commit ourselves fully to God in holiness, to one another in Christian community, and to the mission of the church in evangelism, compassion, and justice.

• "Only a Child Can Make a Dad" by Roy Austin. Too bad Hallmark doesn't make Father's Day cards that we dads could give our children. Or maybe they do.

• "Three R's and an L:One Family's Experience with Home Schooling," by Eddie Hall. Home schooling requires time, energy, and a love of children and learning. For those willing to make the investment, the returns can be enormous.

• "Unemployed? Congratulations!" by Mary Tatem. After years of instructing and protecting our children, their passage to adulthood can find us reluctant to let them go. But successful parents work themselves out of a job.

• "A Day in the Life of a Doctor" by Michael S. Ward. Holiness Today's youngest author takes us to the world of Nazarene medical missions in Papua New Guinea. What's this world like through the eyes of a child of ten?

COLUMNS

• Metro: "There's an Earthquake Downstairs and I Didn't Do It!," by Fletcher L. Tink. An earthquake of demoimages and socioeconomics is rearranging the landscape for the children of the world. For millions of them, life is blighted by the sins and neglect of their parents and their communities.

• Editor's Forum: This month's panel of experts answers questions about the concept of a "generic church" and is it scriptural to worship the Lord with some type of "worship dance?"

• Worldview: "The Church is Mission," by Donald D. Owens. We shall never achieve enduring missionary results at home or abroad until we allow the Holy Scripture to give us the necessary missionary impetus and the Holy Spirit to internalize the mission with power.

• Footprints: "H. T. Reza-The Gospel of Grace in the Spanish Tongue," by Stan Ingersol. H. T. Reza's footprints on the Nazarene landscape are large, striking, and impossible to ignore.

• In the Mirror: "Children Welcomed Here" by W. E. McCumber. Thanks, Dad, for taking me to a fun church.

• Heartbeat: "The Best," by Bill M. Sullivan. Nothing the church has to offer can begin to compare with the reality of knowing Christ.

• The Deeper Way: "Name Changes," by Mary Rearick Paul. "To everyone who conquersáI will give a white stone, and on the white stone is written a new name." (Revelations 2:17, NRSV).

• Family Tree: "Downsizing," by Tom Barnard. As we grow older, we begin to ask ourselves questions that never surfaced when we were 30-something.

• Essay: "What Will Become of Your Dreams?," by Karen Dean Fry. "We shall see what will become of his dreams" (Genesis 37:20, kjv). Joseph got beyond the hurt of being forgotten by forgiving.

• Commission: "Generosity-The Jesus Way," by Jim L. Bond. In the bird-world, where "survival of the fittest" rules, such self-serving is understandable. Unfortunately, Rufous-like behavior is also mirrored in the lives of people and, sadly, even in some churches.

COMING IN JULY - "AFTER THE WALL."

• "The Berlin Summit: A Decade's Retrospect" by Thomas Vollenweider. "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" These historic words signaled change for a country, a continent, and a world that had been divided for 28 years. Suddenly a new day had dawned, and enormous consequences followed this dramatic change and peaceful revolution. What has become of the challenge to reach the Eastern bloc and walk through these open doors with the gospel?