The Lausanne movement is being rejuvenated with a new generation of leaders from around the globe. This will be most clearly evident when the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering (YLG ’06) is convened in Malaysia during the last week of September 2006. At that time, 550 carefully selected younger leaders between the ages of 25 and […]
A Church like No Other It looked like an old-fashioned Bakelite radio as it sat on a table in the middle of the church. Sitting around the table in a circle of chairs were a range of people from the local community. We were in Manila, home to twelve million people. While the room we […]
The 300-member Kurdzman Church in Iraq is collecting money to help the New Orleans (USA)-based Adullam Christian Fellowship Church, which was devastated by hurricane Katrina. Although the two-year-old congregation in Iraq is half a world away, church members were motivated to reach out to their fellow Christians after seeing the destruction on television. Adullam Christian […]
Q. Give a brief overview of your work and ministry. A. I was named Evangeline by my parents in the hope that I would be a great evangelist for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I come from a God-fearing Christian family. There are five of us—I am the youngest and I have two elder sisters. […]
Members of thirty-two minority language groups worldwide received God’s word in their own heart languages for the first time in 2006 thanks to a long-standing partnership between Bible League and Wycliffe Bible Translators. Ì¢‰âÂÒSome of those we are reaching have been exposed to the gospel via a language they did not understand,Ì¢‰âÂå said the Rev. […]
Three indigenous Bible translation projects, started through the support of Bible Society in Australia (BSiA), are continuing through private donations and individual church support. The projects are in Nyoongar, southwest Western Australia; Dhurga at Mogo near Bateman’s Bay NSW and in Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole). With support from BSiA and Bible Society NSW, the Nyoongar […]
In 1998, the German region of the United Evangelical Mission (UEM) asked me to start a ministry with migrant Christians. At the time, there were few concrete ideas: it was only clear that Christian migrants might be in need of fellowship and a place to worship. (The aim of the project was not to evangelize—the […]
In 1998, the German region of the United Evangelical Mission (UEM) asked me to start a ministry with migrant Christians. At the time, there were few concrete ideas: it was only clear that Christian migrants might be in need of fellowship and a place to worship. (The aim of the project was not to evangelize—the […]
Historical Context Christianity in India is nearly two thousand years old with the claim that Thomas, one of the twelve disciples, reached the shores of India in the first century. The Protestant mission history begins in 1706 when Bartholomew Zigenbalg reached Tranquebar in India and translated the Bible into Tamil, one of the languages in […]
Building both buildings and relationships in STM Exact record-keeping on short-term missions (STM) has been impossible. But the numbers we do have are staggering. Some say close to one million Americans go on a short-term mission trip every year. STM can no longer be reported as a new movement. It is quickly becoming an institution. […]
Picture this scene… It is a warm, sunny, Saturday afternoon and in this usually sleepy rural village our attention is attracted by squeals, screams and some very unusual noises. Upon closer investigation, we find a group of about fifty people of all ages barking, mooing and making a variety of animal noises. The players crawl […]
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 (Table 2). This southern shift […]
Western Europe has three areas: northern Europe, western Europe and southern Europe. Because each is slightly different—and has different issues it is facing—we will focus on each area separately. Northern Europe The ten nations (and three smaller island chains) of northern Europe may be small, but their contributions to global politics, economics and missions are […]
The Lausanne Issue Group on Religious and Non-Religious Spirituality in the Western World continues to build on the foundation laid in Thailand at the 2004 Forum for World Evangelization. This strategic group continues to address the often-neglected missional challenge of new religious movements, alternative religions and emerging spiritualities in the Western world. After the 2004 […]
