Perspectives | Lausanne World Pulse Archives
The author shares principles for sharing the gospel with those who are partially evangelized, those who have been exposed to the Christian tradition but who haven’t experienced the transformative work of Jesus and the Holy Spirit.Read more…
Jesus was a colorful evangelist who expected the Church to be creative in implementing colorful evangelistic methods with suitable contextualization.Read more…
Contemplative activism as a spiritual posture is essential, the author writes.Read more…
An update to a 2010 article on languages some missionaries must learn in order to witness to highest priority peoples.Read more…
A short overview from the International Orality Network of orality around the world.Read more…
We bring ourselves to God and avail ourselves to be used for his kingdom purposes and glory. Women on the cutting edge of missions will never forget to embrace these basics.Read more…
In her pursuit of the perfect strategy to share the gospel with Muslim women, the author nearly overlooked the second most important command Jesus gave us: to simply, but completely, love our neighbor.Read more…
John Stott recently passed away at the age of 90. Lausanne leadership share their reflections on Stott’s global impact.Read more…
An electronic dialogue on the subject of Business as Mission in early 2010 led to several regional meetings and culminated with a BAM consultation in Panama in March 2011.Read more…
The authors discuss what it takes to reach youth in Thailand.Read more…
The author shares what servant leadership looks like and its impact on others around us.Read more…
The authors offer practical ways that you, and those you mobilize and gather for prayer, can effectively pray for persecuted believers around the world.Read more…
Although God is intently searching his entire Church, the Holy Spirit is focusing particular attention on the emerging generation of believers. How student volunteer movements are transforming people groups and nations.Read more…
More than fifty people attended the recent International Researchers’ Conference in Sao Paulo.Read more…
The Global Diaspora Network, formed at Cape Town 2010, met for the first time in February 2011.Read more…
Where real partnership and collaborative ministry have taken place, it has often been occasioned by adverse contexts. The author shares four examples.Read more…
Digital evangelism is on the rise, and with the rapid increase of mobile and other technology, media will continue to play a major role in evangelism.Read more…
With ninety partners, the European Freedom Network has become an official network of the European Evangelical Alliance.Read more…
The Cape Town Declaration on Care and Counsel as Mission, a three-page document that outlines foundational principles for responding to global mental health needs, was recently released.Read more…
A brief Q&A with a World Hope International leader about how their programs are impacting communities in seventeen countries around the world.Read more…
Wycliffe International becomes Wycliffe Global Alliance, signifying key objectives and distinctives for the days ahead.Read more…
Leighton Ford, honorary life chairman of Lausanne, recently gave a talk on keeping the “C” in who we are. Here is his speech.Read more…
Leighton Ford, honorary life chairman of Lausanne, recently gave a talk on keeping the “C” in who we are. Here is his speech.Read more…
More than 150 participants attended the recent Lausanne Eurasian Consultation Meeting to discuss Cape Town 2010 and evangelization in Eurasia.Read more…
Tens of thousands of people were recently touched by the power of the gospel in DRC.Read more…
Contrary to the passive view many Christians have of Jesus, he actually had a great zeal and passion for his Father’s house which permeated his entire ministry.Read more…
A look at three Indian megachurches reveals that they have ten characteristics in common.Read more…
The author asks, Are those who genuinely seek to make disciples of all peoples in America actually making disciples? If not, why is this the case?Read more…
At least half of all Americans prefer what is called an Ì¢‰âÂÒoralÌ¢‰âÂå approach to communicating and learning. So how can we use this to our advantage?Read more…
A simplified guide to Bible storying.Read more…
The author looks at the meaning of the “whole gospel” in relation to the Trinity.Read more…
Five breakthrough innovations developed by secular, multinational corporations have stunning potential for the exponential growth of Christian leadership development.Read more…
The author and Open Doors International founder, Brother Andrew, spend time with persecuted Christians in Pakistan.Read more…
Prayers really do make a difference when it comes to praying to, with, and for the persecuted Church.Read more…
A missionaryÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s disciple-making efforts must be duplicated and multiplied no matter what types of work he or she may be involved in on the field.Read more…
An interview with current Operation World editor, Jason Mandryk, and former editor, Patrick Johnstone.Read more…
The author offers a general overview of definitions, history, and database material on people group information.Read more…
The authors look at how many languages remain to be learned to reach the top priority unreached people groups.Read more…
An example of innovative outreach: using chocolate in Europe.Read more…
The author asks, “Is it possible that somehow, even in the center of the most inhuman abuses and violent acts by the worldÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s powers, that GodÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s bigger plan of redemption is being carried out?”Read more…
A lesson from a pigeon shows that when a community works together toward a common goal, lives can be saved.Read more…
The author shares how three films are being used in evangelism and how this type of outreach can reach segments of society where the traditional church cannot go.Read more…
Biblical evangelism is experiential, exegetical, expressive, and confrontational.Read more…
Biblical evangelism is eschatologically urgent, ecologically active, egalitarian in recruitment and leadership, and ecumenically interdependent.Read more…
An overview of Edinburgh 1910 to 2010.Read more…
No longer is it necessary to fly groups around the world to have an international impact for Christ. How International Students, Inc. is impacting local communities and colleges for Christ.Read more…
An example of how God used a small group of lay people to change the spiritual trajectory of an entire people group.Read more…
In 1999, Wycliffe and other partners adopted Vision 2025 to see all language communities having a Bible translation program in progress by 2025. Here is an update.Read more…
The traditional missionary is looking increasingly different today. Nonetheless, the author shares how these atypical workers can greatly impact the harvest.Read more…
Seven points in responding to tragedy through a Christian lens.Read more…
Four encouraging signs that 2010-2020 will include many positive changes in the Church and Christians worldwide.Read more…
Four encouraging signs that 2010-2020 will include many positive changes in the Church and Christians worldwide.Read more…
Why consumerism is fueling the fires of human trafficking.Read more…
Suggestions for English speakers who are cross-culturally guest speaking.Read more…
The gradual shift from old to new paradigms in participating in interfaith dialogue has significant implications.Read more…
Three common reasons why duplication of effort instead of partnership takes place.Read more…
A look at the status of the Great Commission in the nations of the world to answer the question, Ì¢‰âÂÒWhere do people have the least opportunity to hear the gospel?Ì¢‰âÂåRead more…
Foreigners have a tremendous opportunity to use their unmerited power to advocate for justice, bring international attention to issues of injustice, and even to extend some protection to Cambodian activists.Read more…
Foreigners have a tremendous opportunity to use their unmerited power to advocate for justice, bring international attention to issues of injustice, and even to extend some protection to Cambodian activists.Read more…
The Banjara are a community of six million spread throughout India. Experts estimate about one percent of the Banjara are believers.Read more…
What are Christians doing on the Internet…and are they successfully leading people to Jesus?Read more…
In response to being asked to intercede through prayer for a group of Christian men living in a Muslim extremist area, the author asked God to teach him to pray for the persecuted Church. He learned five lessons.Read more…
How partnerships between unlikely groups have been changing lives in Cambodia.Read more…
I am Second is a simple website with crisp, high-quality videos of people sharing how they found healing from past pain through the power of Jesus.Read more…
Working through obstacles in leading people to faith in Jesus is an important part of the witnessing journey.Read more…
An overview of the world’s top ten religions.Read more…
Taking a moment for personal renewal.Read more…
Drawing from Luke 11, the author explains how Christian leaders can face the challenges of motivating and inspiring followers.Read more…
The author asks, “What level of urgency and intentionality do we give to making disciples and building Christ-centered movements among students today?”Read more…
Four suggested guidelines for missionaries to help them live simply and humbly in a host culture.Read more…
An overview of the Great Commission and its direct linkage to world missions.Read more…
A look at the wholistic ministry of Jesus and how that can translate into beneficial ministry today.Read more…
The one indispensable and strategic choice that must be made is the prioritization of preaching the gospel to the least evangelized as quickly as possible.Read more…
How media is being used to share the message of salvation around the world.Read more…
Prayer is not only about talking to God, but about defeating the devil and his evil plans.Read more…
The kind of worship the Bible talks about is service to others because of love for God.Read more…
Two-day theological forum in Manila focused on “The Earth Is the Lord’s and Everything in It: Reflections on Stewardship in the Asian Context.”Read more…
The International Religious Demography project designed to provide comprehensive religious demographic information.Read more…
The historic revival taking place in Iraq exemplifies the great spiritual awakening occurring across the Middle East and the Muslim world.Read more…
With escalating Canadian diversity, the Church comes face-to-face with the challenge of Ì¢‰âÂÒmissions on our doorstep.Ì¢‰âÂå The author gives a case study of a good example of grassroots diaspora missiology.Read more…
Two hundred Christian publishers, writers, editors, and designers from 30-plus countries will gather 1-6 November 2009 in Nairobi for LittWorld 2009.Read more…
Millions of Christians from nearly every nation will unite 31 May 2009 for the annual Global Day of Prayer. Read about the history of the day and what this year holds.Read more…
Christian caregivers from the fields of counseling, pastoral ministry, psychology, psychiatry, social work, and theology met in Mexico City to explore the future role of Christian counselors in taking Ì¢‰âÂÒthe whole gospel to the whole world.Ì¢‰âÂåRead more…
The Church has an outward mission (evangelization) and an inward mission (formation for the maturity of the integral life of the individual). The Lord is calling us to recognize and bring light to those who are forgotten and hurting.Read more…
Although larger churches are the exception rather than the rule in England, these churches have great potential and opportunity.Read more…
A new resource for churches and individuals beginning short-term mission work and for those managing others involved in short-term mission work.Read more…
Throughout biblical and recent history, God has used outsiders to bring about his purposes in foreign nations.Read more…
As our awareness of world poverty, suffering, and injustice sets in, we immediately and rightfully must consider how God would call us to respond.Read more…
In the midst of massive government corruption, grave illness, and a lack of daily needs, the people of Zimbabwe are crying out to the Lord.Read more…
Like the EvangeCube, the HIV Hope Cube uses no written words, so it can be used to share the gospel in many cultures.Read more…
Nine major needs and gaps in the global Business as Mission movement.Read more…
Etnopedia, a website for bilingual Christians to translate people profiles into other languages, gives researchers the opportunity to expand the research process.Read more…
The African Inland Church Missionary College provides both classroom experience and real-world mission work.Read more…
A recent study reveals that only a small percentage of middle school and high school-age students are seriously considering long-term, overseas missions.Read more…
Ted Yamamori, president/CEO of WorldServe Ministries, spoke with LWP about his short retirement and the future of WorldServe, China, and Cuba.Read more…
Formerly vice president of Moody Broadcasting, Wayne Pederson is HCJB GlobalÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s new president.Read more…
Leaders from twelve East African nations gather to discuss how to fulfill the task of reaching the “least and the lost” in East African and beyond.Read more…
The WEA-TC, which met in Bangkok, Thailand, 23-25 October 2008, has reaffirmed the importance of holistic mission, despite the tragic murder of Christian worker Gayle Williams.Read more…
Prayer networks seem to be GodÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s answer to the lukewarm situation of our churches today.Read more…
Is there a case for becoming vulnerable to be more useful to God?Read more…
The author shares how worshipping with and witnessing the lives of Christians inside a prison in South Africa was life-changing.Read more…
The Ì¢‰âÂÒleast of theseÌ¢‰âÂåÌ¢‰â‰Ûthe poor, the oppressed, the destitute and deranged, the orphans and the widowsÌ¢‰â‰Ûare all the God of the universe in disguise. The authors shares a compelling story of how he found this to be true.Read more…
Because of technology such as the Internet, Christians are close enough to see the day when we will tell every man, woman, and child on earth the story of Jesus.Read more…
What is real to you about God shapes your thoughts, values, and behavior, and even determines your eternal destiny.Read more…
We best make Jesus known by word and by deed. Our proclamation is the evangel story. However, our demonstration of GodÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s love and concern for people and their struggles in life is a validation of our proclamation.Read more…
So far this cyclone season, four hurricanes or tropical storms have wrecked havoc on the small country of Haiti.Read more…
An international conference addresses new religious movements and spiritualities.Read more…
Daniel BourdannÌÄå© celebrated his Lutheran Brethren heritage with members of a church in Minneapolis (USA).Read more…
How we can rehabilitate the term “evangelical.”Read more…
The high-tech, real-time communication and the global economy have brought the global village into existence. What does this mean in God’s economy?Read more…
A review of Donald Miller’s and Ted Yamamori’s book on global Pentecostalism.Read more…
An overview of ProChrist Poland.Read more…
Looking at evangelization efforts among the largest eighteen people clusters in Northeast Asia.Read more…
Information on the 2008 North American Mission Leaders Conference.Read more…
One testimony of how the teaching of God’s word orally is transforming villages around the world.Read more…
Three hundred African leaders of national, regional, and global influence gathered to discuss the next steps involved in completing the Great Commission.Read more…
Jeerakan (Jeab) Duksukgaew, a Thai, discusses what it was like to grow up in a Buddhist family, and how her life has changed since becoming a Christian.Read more…
CBE conference focuses on the issue of gender and missions, particularly on the challenges Christian men and women face as they work together on mission fields around the world.Read more…
Rites of passage, designed to suit the times and context, provide opportunities for the local church to capture vibrant Christian community.Read more…
Unfortunately, the days of lifelong support from churches and individuals are quickly vanishing, and missionaries need to prepare for that reality.Read more…
Oikos, a private, online, social networking site, allows missionaries and mission leaders around the world to communicate in a safe and real-time setting.Read more…
The devaluing of the US dollar will have at least four effects on the North American missionary sending enterprise.Read more…
The neglect of the imagination in life and faith has impoverished the Body of Christ. However, during the past few decades there has been a global renewal of interest in the arts and the imagination among believers.Read more…
Rwandans are taking the issues of reconciliation and unity seriously.Read more…
God has charged the Churchí¢ä‰åäólocal, denominational, and universalí¢ä‰åäówith the responsibility to translate, teach, and reach all people with the Bible.Read more…
Four ways in which our thinking must change in order to meet the challenges inherent in cross-cultural ministry.Read more…
The truly effective and productive missionary is not the one with the largest organization, but the one whose precious and godly work of love survives into eternity.Read more…
A comparison of the Ibero-American missions enterprise between 1987 and 2008 reflects great progress.Read more…
SIM USA offically apologizes for the past practice of not welcoming African American missionary candidates.Read more…
God seems to be preparing the world for a vast new wave of churches that will be simple in organization and effective in teaching and evangelism.Read more…
Christians gathered to explore the biblical foundations of gift-based ministry and the biblical and theological basis for gender justice and Christian service.Read more…
How one agency is coming alongside non-Western pastors to develop an oral partnership training course.Read more…
Eight examples of what it means to follow Christ in world evangelization from Luke 3-6.Read more…
Representatives from Bible agencies and other African ministries were challenged to reframe the HIV/AIDS discussion from Ì¢‰âÂÒa problem that needs fixingÌ¢‰âÂå to Ì¢‰âÂÒa life issue that needs to be addressed.Ì¢‰âÂåRead more…
Over eight hundred leaders have received training through the IMA’s AMLT.Read more…
A look at four scripture passages reveals the importance of persistence in prayer.Read more…
Snapshots of India and Egypt as the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church approaches.Read more…
Although the gospel forever remains the same, how it is delivered, who is communicating it and the means of responding to it will be profoundly changed in the coming years.Read more…
Is it possible to build a Ì¢‰âÂÒmission swarmÌ¢‰âÂå that can recruit and send our forty-three thousand teams? The author believes the answer is yes.Read more…
An overview of migrant workers in Asia Pacific and the potential for the spread of the gospel among them.Read more…
Hope 08 will be a year of activity and outreach designed to transform the British Isles for Jesus Christ.Read more…
The Mass Media ProjectÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s vision is to move people from professed values to lived values, as a way of addressing some of the key issues South African society faces.Read more…
The author asks, “Can we create a missionary swarm, similar to the swarm intelligence found in ant colonies?”Read more…
A Canadian Council of Christian Charities survey confirms that both pastors and parachurch ministries desire greater collaboration to advance the cause of Christ.Read more…
Fifty-five publishers, editors and authors recently attended Media Associates International’s Europe Publishing Forum.Read more…
A look at Jezebel the “cross-cultural, tentmaking missionary” and the role of Christian tentmakers.Read more…
There are many reasons why it is expedient to pray. Here are eight.Read more…
A look inside the ATA and the 2007 General Assembly.Read more…
Muslim interaction can give us at least four contextualized gifts.Read more…
Critical incarnational living and contextualization of the gospel go hand in hand.Read more…
World Weekend of Prayer for Children at Risk to be held 2-3 June 2007.Read more…
TWR recently launched a new website sub-portal, aimed at piquing the interest of 20-somethings and encouraging them to take a new look at world missions and their role in it.Read more…
The Mission Handbook contains information on more than eight hundred North American mission agencies working overseas.Read more…
Henry Deneen succeeding Ted Noble as president of GEM.Read more…
This yearÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s GDOP, to be celebrated 27 May 2007, will have its UK hub in West Ham football stadium in London, England.Read more…
A consensus on the importance of evangelism and the need to eliminate domestic poverty marked the official formation of Christian Churches Together.Read more…
Radio Impacto, a small, 1,000-watt FM Christian radio station in La Mesilla, Guatemala, is also planting churches.Read more…
The annual COSIM conference will be held 11-13 June 2007 in Wheaton, Illinois, USA.Read more…
CafÌÄå© 1040 prepares students for a life of service in the 10/40 Window.Read more…
During the modern missionary movement of the 1800s Christians began to develop a cohesive biblical basis for womenÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s service as gospel partners with men.Read more…
HCJB World Radio, the worldÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s first missionary broadcasting ministry, which has also developed an international medical outreach, has changed its name to HCJB Global.Read more…
Every life is being spent on something. The question is, “What will you spend your life on?”Read more…
As Romania and Bulgaria become part of the European Union, Christian leaders in those countries are preparing to spread God’s Word far and wide.Read more…
Academic papers on the topic of Ì¢‰âÂÒHuman Identity and the Gospel of Reconciliation: Agenda for Mission Studies and Praxis in the 21st CenturyÌ¢‰âÂå are wanted for the 2008 IAMS assembly.Read more…
Internet Evangelism Day, 29 April 2007, is a time when churches can begin using their websites to reach out to their communities.Read more…
Modou Sanneh, head pastor of the Reformed Evangelical Church in Gambia, talks about advancing the Kingdom of God in that nation.Read more…
Virtually every tribe in Gambia can be described as unreached.Read more…
Many Christians around the world have little to no theological or biblical training. And therefore have many questions about their newfound faith.Read more…
Thousands of individuals with disabilities in Latin America have been blessed through the ministry of FRIDLA and others.Read more…
Mission trips do have an impact. Sarah, a former witch in her Kenyan community, is a living testimony of this fact.Read more…
Faith is the raw material upon which the answers to our prayers are produced.Read more…
Muslims around the world are having dreams and visions of the risen Christ. These are being documented and shared with others.Read more…
As thousands of new volunteer missionaries rise from the ranks of retiring baby boomers, they are challenging the status quo of missions.Read more…
More than two thousand church and mission leaders from forty Latin American nations met for the third COMIBAM conference.Read more…
Teaching the Ten Commandments in a relevant way is transforming thousands of lives in the United Kingdom.Read more…
Proper journaling can help short-term missionaries make the most of their time of ministry.Read more…
Nearly twenty-five thousand participants are expected to attend the Urbana 06 conference 27-31 December 2006.Read more…
Drawing more than five hundred representatives of indigenous tribes from twenty-three countries, the WCGIP was a venue for indigenous peoples worldwide to express themselves freely.Read more…
The Open for Business track at Urbana 06 is for participants who have a passion or growing interest in business and global missions.Read more…
Globeserve vision seeks to start one hundred missionary training schools in developing nations by 2012.Read more…
The Chinese Church is sending out missionaries in great numbers and is fast becoming a great world leader.Read more…
Equipping Christian workers in India requires strategic empowerment and education.Read more…
Leadership development needs to be a core methodology to produce strong Christian leaders today and in generations to come.Read more…
More than 200 million Christians are being persecuted worldwide for their faith in Jesus Christ.Read more…
COMIBAM Internacional leads the move to have the Ibero-American Church become a sending force in Latin America and throughout the world. (Article also available in Spanish.)Read more…
More than sixty leaders from around the world gathered for the first ever WEA-TC meeting in Africa.Read more…
The story of the 700 million Buddhist people needs to be told. Christians need to learn about the Buddhist culture in order to effectively pray and minister to them.Read more…
Key leaders from the world’s international missions organizations will be gathering at Mission Aviation Fellowship’s (MAF) new headquarters in Nampa, Idaho, USA 18-19 October to determine how to work together to effectively use the results of MAF’s recent landmark studyRead more…
Christian leaders in Malaysia seek to transform their nation through seven projects.Read more…
Nearly 450 participants and eighty youth leaders attended this year’s EFI annual meeting.Read more…
Fifty-seven American college campus ministry leaders gathered for the Institute of Campus Revival and Awakening.Read more…
In 1900 the ratio of evangelist to hearer of the gospel was 2:1. Today it is 6:1. This is greatly impacting Christianity.Read more…
Advancing the kingdom of God in Croatia includes meeting both the physical and spiritual needs of the people.Read more…
TransWorld Radio-Asia and ABC111.net are using story to help individuals in China learn English.Read more…
Using a culturally relevant film to reach the people of India.Read more…
Christian first nation peoples will be gathering for the sixth WCGIP to discuss issues related to indigenous people worldwide.Read more…
A detailed look at the NCFB and one of the five boards, the Board of Mission and Evangelism.Read more…
Mohammed Omar is a chaplain to the Somali people in Kijabe Hospital, Kenya. Here is his story of conversion and transformation.Read more…
Using the metaphor of the new creation as a guiding vision for missions.Read more…
Western and non-Western mission leaders met at the recent COSIM conference to discuss how to support and build Developing World ministries.Read more…
One ministry in Bulgaria seeks to equip local churches for outreach through media, sports and nationwide initiatives.Read more…
Establishing a local church in a traditional Muslim context in Africa requires emphasis on three important elements: the umma, the mosque and the folk traditions.Read more…
Resource centers in China, the Horn of Africa, India, the Malay World, Tanzania and the United States will be used to create a global harvest force.Read more…
Manuel Diaz named national director of Bible League’s newest Latin America ministry in Chile.Read more…
Biographical resource imagined in 1995 has become a model for similar Christian biographical databases around the world.Read more…
Rev. Fred Drummond named general secretary of Evangelical Alliance Scotland.Read more…
In the past five decades both the Japanese people and culture have undergone changes.Read more…
Prayer warriors around the world are being called upon both before and during the Federation Internationale de Football Association Soccer World Cup Series 9 June through 9 July.Read more…
Although difficult, sharing one’s faith relevantly and faithfully to contemporary culture is possibleÌ¢‰â‰Ûand necessary.Read more…
Jesus Christ continues to woo Muslims to follow him. We must be his agents.Read more…
The annual planning and strategy meeting of the World Evangelical Alliance Theological Commission will be held in Kenya 20-24 September 2006.Read more…
A 98-year-old missionary shares with younger leaders the wisdom that he has gained over forty years of ministry.Read more…
Conference seeks to enlighten, encourage and empower the lives and ministries of practicing evangelists from Asia and the South Pacific.Read more…
Website seeks to raise awareness and serve as an educational tool for those interested in helping to fulfill God’s purposes for China.Read more…
Conference for those passionately engaged in finding solutions to poverty and homelessness reaps great results.Read more…
Germany-based outreach event, translated into eighteen languages, attracted millions of individuals from twenty European nations to Christ.Read more…
The 2006 Evangelical Fellowship of India Annual Conference, 24-27 May, seeks to equip, motivate and mobilize pastors throughout India.Read more…
Seeking unified ecumenism in Evangelical Churches throughout Latin America.Read more…
African church leaders take the lead in not only missions on the African continent, but global missions as well.Read more…
Lay movements and leadership momentum are leading to a greater emphasis on evangelization within the Catholic Church.Read more…
Global prayer gathering, held 4 June 2006, seeks to include participants from over two hundred nations.Read more…
This yearÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s GDOP, to be celebrated 27 May 2007, will have its UK hub in West Ham football stadium in London, England.Read more…
The sixty to eighty million Christians in China remain the single largest persecuted community today.Read more…
Countless individuals from unreached people groups come to North America each year. One ministry seeks to reach these individuals with the gospel message.Read more…
One missionary uses his abilities as a web programmer to develop a website which helps missionaries raise support.Read more…
The Spirit of God is moving mightily in a land of contrasts.Read more…
An Institute to help college campus ministry leaders understand revival and awakening biblically and historically—and to help bring revival to their own campuses—has been scheduled for 21-28 June 2006 at Yale University, Connecticut, USA. “The Institute of Campus Revival andRead more…
Church leaders, educators, mission administrators, medical ministry personnel and missionaries will meet to discuss how to implement internationalism for more effective global outreach.Read more…
Officials with Hopegivers International are calling on Christians to establish a monthly night of prayer for the persecuted Church.Read more…
World leaders are looking forward to the “Spiritual Experience of a Lifetime” in Los Angeles, California, USA this 25-29 April 2006.Read more…
The International Bible Society (IBS) is using the life-changing power of scripture in the battle against the deadly HIV/AIDS virus.Read more…
Adam Greene Commissioner Shaw Clifton named General of the Salvation Army The Salvation Army has announced that its new world leader and the eighteenth General of the Salvation Army will be Commissioner Shaw Clifton. Commissioner Clifton, who currently heads upRead more…
Daniel O. Crosby is the new president of Accelerating International Mission Strategies.Read more…
For the first couple of decades following its founding in 1959, TransWorld RadioÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s German sister ministry, Evangeliums-Rundfunk (ERF), based in Wetzlar near Frankfurt, kept fairly close to the extended familyÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s radio-only mode.Read more…
Nicole is in her final year of high school in Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. She and her family attend an Anglican church which had signed up to be part of the “Jesus. All about life” (JAAL) campaign.Read more…
In a country where nearly ninety-two percent of the one billion plus people profess to be either Hindu or Muslim, Christians in the nation of India are working hard to get the gospel message out to those who have never heard.Read more…
OMF International (formerly the China Inland Mission) has announced that Dr. Patrick Fung will become the tenth general director of the mission. Dr. Fung, a Chinese Christian, is the first Asian to lead the ministry, and succeeds the Rev. Dr. David Harley, who served as general director since 2001.Read more…
Unanswered questions regarding the social interactions of individuals and entire cultures require us to pause and look deeply at ourselves, our lives and our circumstances.Read more…
In the face of devastating diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria, and global needs such as poverty and trade injustice, the relatively í¢ä‰åñsmallí¢ä‰åŒ problem of leprosy can often be forgotten.Read more…
India ranks high on the list of countries where commercial sexual exploitation of underage girls occurs.Read more…
The American Bible SocietyÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s response to the need for Bibles for Hurricane Katrina evacuees was swift and coordinated with churches and like-minded organizations throughout the United States Gulf Coast area.Read more…
These are encouraging times for mission organizations and workers committed to serving the health needs of suffering people. Never before have there been more opportunities to reach non-believers with pain relief and the caring gospel of Jesus Christ.Read more…
World renowned mission agencies have challenged local churches to work with them in Finishing the Task (FTT). This vision, to launch indigenously-led church planting movements to targeted groups around the world, was presented 14-17 November at the Billy Graham Training Center, in Asheville, NC, USA.Read more…
The United Nations reports that nearly forty million people in the world are infected with HIV/AIDS.Read more…
The mission of the Church may be defined as Ì¢‰âÂÒwhat God has sent the Church into the world to do.Ì¢‰âÂå This includes both evangelistic and social responsibilities. Many speak of our mission, but what about our motivations for mission?Read more…
The first AIDS case in China was reported in 1985. The following years witnessed rapid growth of the HIV-positive population. Geographically, HIV-positive cases have now been reported in each and every one of the thirty-one provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of mainland China.Read more…
For more than two thousand years, the Church has worked to fulfill the Great Commission of our Lord. By 1900, 45.69% of the world was evangelized; by 2000, more than 73.09% of the world has heard the gospel. Yet there are still more than 1.8 billion people who have never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ.Read more…
A provocative call to radically rethink our communication of the gospel was the central theme of the 2005 International Orality Network (ION) Annual Working Conference held recently in Anaheim, CA, USA.Read more…
Ì¢‰âÂÒI really think itÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s best if you donÌ¢‰â‰ã¢t come back to church here anymore!Ì¢‰âÂå Can you imagine what itÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s like to hear those words from your pastor?Read more…
North Korea, which tops Open DoorÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s World Watch List of countries where persecution of Christians is the worst, was one of the countries spotlighted during the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church 13 November.Read more…
Every day 14,000 Africans become infected with HIV/AIDS. In an effort to counter the spread of this unrelenting enemy on the continent, international Christian broadcaster Trans World Radio (TWR) and Kerus Global Education have partnered to produce character-based radio programming geared toward helping African teenagers make responsible lifestyle choices.Read more…
Drugs do not cure leprosy. I can almost hear it now. Doctors, researchers and other leprosy experts who read this title are asking, Ì¢‰âÂÒWhatÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s wrong with this fellow? DoesnÌ¢‰â‰ã¢t he know anything about leprosy? HeÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s supposed to be the president of American Leprosy Missions (ALM) and he doesnÌ¢‰â‰ã¢t even know about the miraculous cure.Ì¢‰âÂåRead more…
Life for a person living below the poverty line is short. This is the terrible conclusion one can reach by looking at indicators concerning human development.1Read more…
European Evangelical leaders on Saturday were challenged to live out their “true identities” as “Christian nobodies” by becoming God’s catalysts for change.Read more…
Ever since Islam began in the seventh century, there have been Christian communities living as minorities in Muslim-majority contexts. Their circumstances have varied at different times and in different places, but almost always Christians experience some degree of discrimination or hostility.Read more…
Singapore held their first National Consultation on International Students Ministry (ISM) on 1 October 2005 in St Andrews’ Cathedral.Read more…
Hearing of a disaster in your homeland is hard. Watching helplessly on television while your countrymen are suffering is excruciating. This is how I feel when watching news of the earthquake in Pakistan.Read more…
When it comes to sharing the gospel of Christ with many people at one timeÌ¢‰â‰Ûcasting the proverbial large netÌ¢‰â‰ÛChristians eagerly use the tools of their day. Paul preached from Mars HillRead more…
Put together 350 churches and church-based organizations; 25,000 pamphlets; 11,500 response books; 20,000 prayer cards; more than 1,000 people trained in evangelism;Read more…
The American Bible Society (ABS) already has three quarters of a million Bibles and scripture portions for distribution to those who survived the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, with more to come in the days ahead.Read more…
When Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) officials finally began to better assess the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina,Read more…
Students in a western suburb of Chicago commit to help families in Zambia deal with the devastating effects of AIDS.Read more…
Thousands of Christians seek to do integral mission during and after the G8 Summit.Read more…
Grassroots movement seeks to unite Christians worldwide in prayer and action toward the reversal and eradication of AIDS.Read more…
God will use whatever means necessary, including oral transmissions and auditory messages, to draw individuals and groups to himself.Read more…
Highlights from the Reconciliation Track at the 2004 Lausanne Forum.Read more…
A global gathering of people, churches and organizations committed to reaching the unreached people groups.Read more…
Butler looks at the importance of relationships and partnership in evangelism.Read more…
Prioritizing leadership development by connecting, developing and inspiring the next generation of Christ-centered leaders.Read more…