08-2006 | Lausanne World Pulse Archives
Dr. Daniel BourdannÌÄå© The International Executive Committee (IEC) of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) is pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel BourdannÌÄå© has been appointed to succeed Lindsay Brown as general secretary. The change will take effect inRead more…
This year marks several significant missions anniversaries, says missions expert Paul Borthwick. One hundred years ago the Azusa Street Revival in California, USA, began. This launched the modern Pentecostal movement. Two hundred years ago the Haystack Prayer Meeting was heldRead more…
After nearly five years in the making, the first Bible commentary to be produced in Africa by African scholars has been published. The African Bible Commentary (ABC) is a two thousand-page commentary that includes a section-by-section interpretation of the BibleRead more…
Caleb Project, a ministry which creates materials, programs and curricula for those involved in mission, and ACMC (Advancing Churches in Missions Commitment), a ministry which uses conferences, consultation and resources to equip local churches for outreach, have joined forces. TheRead more…
Royal Rangers, an Assemblies of God ministry for boys, is experiencing growth in Asian Pacific countries such as Malaysia, which has twenty outposts, and Singapore, which has eleven outposts. Jim Guneratnam, national Royal Rangers program coordinator for Malaysia, contributes theRead more…
Ted Noble, president of Greater Europe Mission (GEM), has announced that he will step down from the post effective June 2007. Noble has served in this position since 1992 after serving for four years as executive vice president of FoodRead more…
Rev. Karl Johnson, general secretary of the Jamaica Baptist Union, was elected president of the Jamaica Council of Churches, the largest and most prominent ecumenical body in the country. Johnson succeeds Rev. Philip Robinson, a Methodist. Johnson is also chairRead more…
The Christian population in Japan has remained at around one percent of the country’s population since 1549, when Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier arrived, says a professor of the sociology of religion at Tokyo’s Roman Catholic Sophia University. “But the youngRead more…
Latin America Library Services (LALS), a ministry under the support of Assemblies of God World Missions, recently posted its new bilingual website, which offers valuable resources for Bible school librarians, administrators, pastors and missionaries. The bilingual format serves both SpanishRead more…
The number of people responding to SAT-7 broadcasts in the Middle East is up two hundred percent from 2005. Much of this is the result of Ì¢‰âÂÒA Very Happy Marriage,Ì¢‰âÂå a program which encourages husbands and wives to dialogue withRead more…
A new bachelor of arts translation degree program has been launched by the Theological College of Northern Nigeria to train Africans for Bible translation. Dr. David Crozier, a Wycliffe Bible Translator member, is serving as head of the college’s BibleRead more…
Dr. Fred Drummond, who has served as a Church of Scotland minister in Perth for fifteen years, began his post as head of the Scottish Evangelical Alliance 1 July. Concerned that Scotland is becoming an increasingly fragmented society, Drummond hopesRead more…
Nearly 450 Mennonites from ten different countries attended the 2006 Mennonite European Regional Conference 25-28 May in Barcelona. Ì¢‰âÂÒFreedom is Commitment: Living the Will of God,Ì¢‰âÂå the theme of this year’s gathering, was the first time in its thirty-year historyRead more…
African Pentecostal/charismatic churches are complex, growing and an important element in the global Church structure.Read more…
In the face of declining income and loss of members, the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), the country’s main Protestant umbrella, is proposing sweeping organizational changes, including cutting the number of pastors by a quarter over the next twenty-five years.Read more…
(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 unreachedRead more…
Week-long celebrations were held in July in Chennai to mark the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the first Protestant missionary to India. “The arrival of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg in Tranquebar in 1706 no doubt marked a remarkable change in theRead more…
Exciting things are happening within the Lausanne movement within the next six months.Read more…
Christian first nation peoples will be gathering for the sixth WCGIP to discuss issues related to indigenous people worldwide.Read more…
With far less than one percent of the Durbet being Christian, this people group needs both physical and spiritual healing.Read more…
A historical review of the least-reached peoples of Northeast Asia and how to reach them through prayer and action.Read more…
Assessing the state of evangelical Christianity worldwide is more complex than simply counting resources.Read more…
Over the past two hundred years the student missions movement has been re-emerging as a strong force in worldwide evangelism and missions.Read more…
God is actively rejuvenating his servants on American college campuses through non-stop prayer meetings.Read more…
Pentecostals see aggressive evangelism in the pages of the New Testament and interpret the Pentecostal experience as a mandate for evangelism.Read more…
When we look at the history of revival there is one common denominator: there was some person or some group of people praying and agonizing to birth the revival.Read more…
The Haystack Prayer Meeting in 1806 on the Williams College campus (Massachusetts, USA) is still impacting the worldwide student missions movement.Read more…
A look at revival and spiritual awakening both in South Africa and around the world.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…
Five characteristics (and lessons) help explain the incredible rise of Pentecostalism around the world.Read more…
Peoples of the World National Christian Fellowship of Bangladesh
Using the metaphor of the new creation as a guiding vision for missions.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…
A detailed look at the NCFB and one of the five boards, the Board of Mission and Evangelism.Read more…