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GROVE CITY, Ohio — On a recent Saturday in a church fellowship hall here, evangelical Christians from several states gathered for an all-day seminar on how to woo Muslims away from Islam. The teacher urged a kindly approach: always show Muslims love, charity and hospitality, he said, and carry copies of the New Testament to give as gifts. The students, scribbling notes, included two pastors, a school secretary and college students who said they hoped to convert Muslims in the United States, or on mission trips abroad. But although the teacher, an evangelical preacher from Beirut, stressed the need to...

GROVE CITY, Ohio — On a recent Saturday in a church fellowship hall here, evangelical Christians from several states gathered for an all-day seminar on how to woo Muslims away from Islam. The teacher urged a kindly approach: always show Muslims love, charity and hospitality, he said, and carry copies of the New Testament to give as gifts. The students, scribbling notes, included two pastors, a school secretary and college students who said they hoped to convert Muslims in the United States, or on mission trips abroad.

Next month I've been asked to speak at a local church for their Missions Sunday and to speak in their adult SS class. I'd like to do a PowerPoint presentation for the SS class that gives some basic information about the Great Commission, Unreached People Groups, the task remaining, how people can get involved, etc. I've seen some good PowerPoint presentations available online from Joshua Project 2000 and Caleb Project, but the ones I've found are at least 6 years old and not as up to date as I'd like. If you know of some websites with good information...

Time magazine is working on a major cover piece to tell a story many evangelical missionaries don't want told – of their covert efforts to preach the gospel to the Muslim world. The mission groups say the primary reason for keeping their work low key is to avoid the risk of imprisonment, torture or death for Christian workers in the Middle East, according to a report by World magazine. Nevertheless, Time editors have sent a four-page e-mail to their reporters worldwide explaining their wishes: "We are planning a major piece on the flood of Christian missionaries, most of them evangelical,...