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Introduction: Engage the world, engage the future! -- The opportunities -- How the world got its groove back -- An unprecedented era of peace and prosperity is upon us -- The poor you will always have with you? -- Can we really make poverty disappear? -- Searching and planning for the poor -- A challenge to rethink aid strategies -- The gravitational shift -- World Christianity is taking the stage -- Where have all the Christians gone? -- Christianity's vanishing act in Europe may be temporary -- Students are plentiful, but teachers are few -- Christian education is a key to transforming the world -- Good morning, Vietnam! -- Battle-scarred nation is a hotbed of Christian and economic growth -- The challenges -- Scourge of the new century -- Sexual slavery is in our own backyard -- The terrorist threat is different now -- Why transnational terrorism is new and more dangerous -- Consider the Jatrophas of the field -- Christians should care about the environment more than anybody -- The Russians come in from the cold -- Instead of overpopulation, beware of underpopulation -- Focus on the city -- Urbanization is remaking our world, for better and for worse -- A glimpse of hell -- Resisting globalization has enabled Christian persecution in North Korea -- A new theological imperialism in Latin America -- Amid globalization's prosperity comes the threat of theological heresy.