The three-self formula and PRCA foreign missions (3)
This article examines the Netherlands Reformed Churches' foreign mission work in Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea) during the 1960s-1970s, focusing on the establishment of four mission stations among the Dani and Jali tribes and the translation of Scripture into native languages. The resource provides historical documentation of Reformed missionary methods and church-planting practices in a truly unreached region, offering practical insights into how the NRC approached evangelism and indigenous church development in a spiritually dark context.
Previous article in this series: December 15, 2020, p. 138. A fourth example is the foreign mission work of the Netherlands Reformed Churches (NRC) in Irian Jaya in the 1960s and 1970s. The NRC was not the only Reformed denomination laboring in that part of Indonesia, but the NRC published a small book about their mission work that gives some helpful insight into their methods and goal -- a work that was truly foreign, that is, among people who in their generations had never heard the gospel....
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