07-2007 | Lausanne World Pulse Archives

Professors, teachers and mentors in missions, evangelism and other fields must spend one-on-one time with students.Read more…

When it comes to teaching church multiplication, effective training programs should be designed around P.L.A.N.T.S.Read more…

Results from a LifeWay Research study of teenagers in the United States indicates that many teens are confused about what it takes to get to heaven. More than one thousand teens were surveyed in January and February 2007 by mailRead more…

Churches need to examine their old mission strategies and reshape them for the twentieth century, according to the Rev. Setri Nyomi, general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC. “Addressing this problem is at the heart of strengtheningRead more…

The Russian Orthodox Church and an émigré church that broke ties in 1927 over a Russian church leader’s declaration of loyalty to the then-Soviet state have officially reunited at a ceremony in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. “Church divisionsRead more…

Roman Catholic religious orders in Poland have taken to advertising to try and stem a decline in vocations. “The church has been advertising itself for two thousand years,” Dariusz Kowalczyk, the head of the Jesuit order in Poland, was quotedRead more…

Churches in Pakistan are urging the government to protect a Christian community facing threats from Islamic fundamentalists to either convert to Islam or shut their churches and migrate from their native villages in the North West Frontier Province. “The authoritiesRead more…

A Malaysian woman who converted to Christianity might be jailed for apostasy, or the rejection of her religion, after the Muslim-majority country’s highest court ruled that she does not have a constitutional right to convert from Islam to another religion.Read more…

More than four thousand protesters took part in a rally in New Delhi, India, recently to demand that the Indian government acts to quell the recent increase in violence against Christians. The rally was called in response to two attacksRead more…

Hong Kong Christians have launched their first manual to help combat domestic violence and church leaders have urged communities to renew their pastoral theology to support victims of the home scourge. “When the Church places too much emphasis on forgivenessRead more…

The leader of the mainline Protestant Churches in Germany, Bishop Wolfgang Huber, is deeply concerned about increasing threats to the lives of former Muslims who have embraced the Christian faith. There are congregations of former Muslims in Berlin, Huber’s diocese,Read more…

After sixteen years of serving as president of Asian Access, an evangelical mission organization that develops leaders and serves as a catalyst to multiply churches, the Rev. S. Douglas Birdsall, will step down on 30 September 2007 to devote full-timeRead more…

With no known record of any mission work having been done among the Akto Turkmen, this predominantly Sunni Muslim group is ripe for the message of salvation.Read more…

Peoples of the world Overview of missionary training resources

The seven countries of Northeast Asia, including China, Japan and South Korea, have economies that are growing at rates that almost defy imagination.Read more…

An overview of ministries today and one type of sending structure.Read more…

Training for missions and evangelism should be held in careful balance in the following three areas: character, knowledge and skills.Read more…

One couple shares their experience with studying missions at Redcliffe College, Centre for Mission Training in Gloucester, United Kingdom.Read more…

FTLT (Focus Team Leadership Training), based in South Africa, is a missionary training school designed to effectively train today’s and tomorrow’s leaders for ministry.Read more…

A look inside the ATA and the 2007 General Assembly.Read more…

How can we do training that ensures the development of effective cross-cultural servants of God?Read more…

An overview of church attendance in the UK from 1998 to 2005 compared to 1989 to 1998.Read more…

There are many reasons why it is expedient to pray. Here are eight.Read more…

Elke Werner has taken over for Robyn Claydon as Lausanne senior associate for women in evangelism.Read more…

The need for specialized training for pastoral leaders in India is great. The current training models are symbols of hope, pointing to a bright future for reaching leaders in India.Read more…