Issue-Based Leadership
Lausanne Working Groups
Engaging global Christian leaders in the theological and strategic issues facing today’s Church
Business, Government, Education, Media and Medicine (BGEMM) Working Group
Jerry White, USA, Chair
Communications Working Group
Steve Woodworth, USA, Chair
Intercession Working Group
Sarah Plummer, Australia, Chair
Leadership Development Working Group
Rick Sessoms, USA, Chair
Resource Mobilization Working Group
Paul Schultheis, USA and Ram Gidoomal, UK, Chairs
Strategy Working Group
Roy Peterson, USA, Chair
Theology Working Group
Timothy C. Tennent, USA, Chair
Senior Associates
Leading Lausanne’s commitment to address specific issues important to the Church
- The Arts: TBD
- Bible Engagement: TBD
- Business as Mission: Mats Tunehag, Sweden
- Children at Risk: TBD
- Church Research: Peter Brierley, UK
- Diasporas: Sadiri Joy Tira, Canada
- Evangelism: Blair Carlson, USA
- Evangelism Among Disabled People: Joni Eareckson Tada, USA
- Evangelism Training: Becky Pippert, USA
- Global Philanthropy: Rob Martin, USA
- Holistic Mission: Evvy Campbell, USA
- Information Technology: Joseph Vijayam, India and USA
- Least Reached Peoples: Kent Parks, USA
- Strategic Evangelism Partnerships: Phill Butler, USA
- Study of Global Christianity: Todd Johnson, USA
- Tentmaking: Berit Helgøy Kloster, Norway
- Women in Evangelism: Elke Werner, Germany
Special Interest Committees
Serve in a coordinating capacity between ministries, denominations and national networks to accelerate the cause of world evangelization within a particular specialized focus.
- Jane Crane, Australia: Alliance 2:29
- Kent Parks, USA: Ethnê
- Brad Smith, USA: Care and Counsel as Mission
- Leiton Chinn, USA: International Students
- Kai Kjaer-Hansen, Denmark: Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism
- Timothy Liu, Singapore: Marketplace Ministries
- No Chairperson serving presently: Persecuted Church
- Chris Rice, USA: Reconciliation
