It seems generally that it is the younger Christians who usually are the ones directly bearing the fruit of evange­lism. Their strength comes from attachment to other, more mature believers.

By Terry Gyger. Of the four and one-half million Hispanics in Los Angeles, less than one-half of one percent are evangelical. This means that most Latin cities have more believers than exist in Hispanic Los Angeles.

By D. James Kennedy. The German author Goethe said that the only struggle in the long history of mankind worthy of our contemplation and consideration is the strug­gle between faith and unbelief. Today that struggle may be approaching its greatest crises.

Hen­ning picked up a Bible from a bedside table and read from Isaiah 47. After a restless night, the young architect knelt by his bed early in the morning and asked the Lord to take over his life. The result, he said, was a "180 degree" turn for him.

Senior flight attendants on major airlines go just about anywhere they want to go. Sometimes, however, they end up where they had not planned to be.

Most North Americans have heard of Timbuktu, but even if they think it's more real than legendary they usually can't find it on the map. Fewer are likely to be able to tell how to find Abidjan, where the newest Mission to the World church planting team is being established.

Thanks to seven summer (North American summer, that is) workers from the PCA's Servants in Missions Abroad, the Buderim congregation of the Westminster Presbyterian Church on the Sunshine Coast experienced vitalization and growth. Elsewhere in Australia's northeastern state of Queensland, two other SIMA summer workers helped new missionaries in Brisbane.

Times are tumultuous. Interna­tional affairs are in an uproar. People yearn for peace. Sin abounds. Travel is difficult. Rulers plot and rage. Free­doms are curtailed. The economy is uncertain. Even clergymen are greedy and immoral. The eternal verities are being questioned. Everything seems to be topsy-turvy.

At a university in the States he's learning a bit more than the leaders of his Islamic nation expect, however. In addition to his courses in math, sci­ence, and computers, he is studying the Bible, privately. He's also observing very closely the lives of some Christian people. They have taken time to help him when he needed it, and they have been friendly and kind.

Nearly everybody goes to church in Upper East Tennessee. One widely cir­culated statistical study, "Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980," shows more Bap­tists than people in Hancock County.