August 2006 Overview The seven countries of Northeast Asia are lands humming with action. China, Japan and South Korea have economies that are growing at rates that almost defy imagination. The twenty-first century could easily be the time when Korean and Chinese missionaries take the lead in reaching the world for Christ. Presently Korea […]
By Lon Allison October / November 2013 At first glance it may not appear that evangelism and prayer are related. Evangelism focuses on reaching pre-believers. Prayer is primarily an activity of believers. The first is about outreach; the second concerns spiritual growth. This is how I used to think. Not so anymore. I now see […]
By Lon Allison October / November 2013 In this issue we discuss a compelling and urgent topic: Glocalized Evangelism. “Glocal” is a new term combining global and local. Simply put, it communicates that the nations and cities of the world are increasingly inhabited by peoples from many cultures, ethnicities, and races. I embrace and love […]
By Charlene de Haan April 2009 (Editor’s note: In our March 2009 issue of Lausanne World Pulse, we discussed Migration, Diaspora, and Displaced People. This is a continuation of what is going in on this field of study.) Throughout human history people have been on the move, but recent significant increase in scale and scope […]
By Todd Johnson September 2005 Over the past 100 years global Christianity has experienced a profound southern shift in its geographical centre of gravity. Whereas in 1900 over 80% of all Christians lived in Europe and Northern America, by 2005 this proportion had fallen to under 40% and will likely fall below 30% before 2050 […]
By William Sunderland January 2006 Where were you when the tsunami of 2005 devastated huge portions of Southeast Asia? I was celebrating the birth of Jesus, creator and savior of humankind, on a bright, sunny morning. However, it was not long before I began learning of the tsunami’s impact via reports on television. After listening […]
By Doug Birdsall October / November 2013 At no time in history has evangelizing families been more strategic than right now. This month, Lausanne World Pulse tackles the issue of evangelizing families. At no time in history has this been more strategic than right now. The family as a social unit is being both chiseled […]
By Glenn Smith November 2008 Introduction to the Series As we have walked with practitioners over the past twelve months into diverse places such as Cap-Haïtien, Luanda, Quito, Manila, Bophal, Calcutta, and with Roma communities in Romania, we have seen that poverty is a broad concept. It touches economic, social, physical, and spiritual realities. It […]
By Lon Allison Recently, several ministry leaders and myself sat and listened to a friend of mine, Jack Munday, speak. Jack directs the Rapid Response department of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Rapid Response trains and deploys temporary chaplains to disaster areas. Since Hurricane Katrina decimated the United States Gulf Coast, Jack and his team […]
By Mac Pier July 2009 The astonishing fact of our time is that the majority of the world’s six billion people now live and work in sizeable cities. Moreover, we live at the time of the greatest migration in human history. The southern hemisphere is moving north, East is coming West, and everyone is coming […]
By Laurie Fortunak Nichols September 2005 Photo Courtesy Wheaton Academy Students at Wheaton Academy presented a check for $108,500 to World Vision to assist in the building of a medical center in Kokola Villiage, Zambia. Hundreds of students in a western suburb of Chicago, IL, USA, have experienced the power of prayer in the last […]
By Nasko Lazarov July 2006 Workers in Bulgaria The Early Years of Revival Growing up in Communist Bulgaria was an experience. With all that was going on, it was extraordinary to witness the change of a political regime that we once thought would last forever. Bulgaria was not spared the winds of change that were […]
By Laurie Fortunak Nichols September 2005 Photo courtesy Joshua Project With more than 99% of the Bengali in Bangladesh being Muslim, this people group remains one of the least-evangelized in the 10/40 Window (the rectangular area of North Africa, the Middle East and Asia between ten degrees north and forty degrees north latitude). Considered to […]
By Justin Long August 2006 (Editor’s Note: Our new Peoples of the World section will consist of three parts: an overview of a specific region of the world, a deeper look into the least-reached peoples of this area and a focus on a specific unreached people group. We hope this will give you both a […]
