A Vision for the Unreached

Summary

In the summer of 1886, a group of 100 college students in Mt. Hermon, Massachusetts consecrated themselves to the vision of the evangelization of the world in their generation. One of the leaders of that historic group was a young man named Robert Wilder. The following year he traveled throughout America seeking to plunder college campuses for the cause of Christ in the nations. This began what is now known as the Student Volunteer Movement (SVM). Over the next three decades, tens of thousands of the best and the brightest of that generation sailed from America’s shores to give their lives to the work of missions. This was the inspiration for the Wilder Tour.

Over the course of a few weeks in January of 2013, students from the ACTS School visited over thirty college campuses to sound a call to spread the fame of Jesus to the hardest and darkest places of the earth. The tour ended in a conference at Mott Auditorium, named after the man who would later be named the chairman of the SVM.

Stephen was honored to be able to speak at two of the Texas stops and be present for the remarkable consecration to the work of missions that took place at the Wilder conference at Mott Auditorium in Pasadena on February 2-3rd. In this message Stephen gives an urgent call to behold the worth of Jesus, and why seeing His splendor produces a sustained vision for the unreached and unengaged people groups of the earth to hear of His glory. If this message is a blessing to you, please consider giving financially to the Antioch Center to further the fame of Jesus through frontier missions.

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