Lausanne Movement

• Internet Evangelism Day
• Global Day of Prayer
• powerSURGE
• Bible Translation in Panama
• Praise and Prayer

APRIL 24, 2005 Internet Evangelism Day (IED), scheduled for April 24, 2005, is designed to help churches, ministries and individuals discover the potential of the Internet for sharing the Gospel. The Internet Evangelism Coalition (www.webevangelism.com) is endorsing the day and many Coalition members are helping facilitate the development of IED resources. Dr. Sterling Huston, IEC Chair and Director of Special Ministries for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, believes the Internet “offers churches, Christian organizations and individuals an amazing and rapidly expanding opportunity to share the ‘Good News’ with a world in need.� He added that it’s his hope that “Internet Evangelism Day will inspire more Christians to utilize the Internet to extend and enlarge their witness for Christ.�

Tony Whittaker (Web Evangelism Guide editor - www.web-evangelism.com), along with a team of others from around the world, has given leadership to the development of IED and a web site (www.InternetEvangelismDay.com) that provides resources, training information and other ideas for a successful IED. Many churches and ministries are planning an IED focus within their own programs. By downloading video clips, drama sketches, a PowerPoint presentation, or other resources from the IED site, they are able to custom-design a “web evangelism awareness slot'� to use in a church service, after-church meeting, home group or seminar.

The IED web site also contains examples of “Internet Evangelists� including Doug Reese, webmaster of the sports-oriented outreach site To The Next Level and Lee J. Bloch, Founder/director of Ephesians 6:10 ministry that combines street witness with an apologetics website. The IED web site also features inspiring stories of people who have come to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through online ministry.

Whittaker says the anticipated outcomes for IED include:

• Increasing Christian understanding and awareness of the Internet as a medium to share Jesus.
• Moving churches to create new websites or modify existing sites to become more user-friendly and attractive to non-Christians in their community.
• Encouraging ministries not currently involved in web evangelism to investigate how they might integrate web outreach into other outreach activities.
• Motivating people to full-time or spare-time web outreach by creating new evangelistic sites or becoming trained in chat room, bulletin board or blog evangelism.
• Creating a higher profile for existing web evangelism ministries.
• Facilitating the addition of web evangelism learning modules into Bible college and other training institute curriculums.

Dr. Tetsunao Yamamori, International Director of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, supports IED day because he believes online outreach is an innovative response to today's high-tech world and adds that “It is possible to evangelize one billion people through this medium.� IED has also received endorsing statements from leaders at Evangelism Explosion International, Christianity Today International, Campus Crusade for Christ, European Christian Mission, Operation Mobilization, Operation World, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Evangelical Alliance U.K., American Tract Society, American Bible Society, Youth With a Mission and many others.

Internet Evangelism Day web site: http://www.InternetEvangelismDay.com

Pentecost Sunday, May 15, 2005

On Pentecost, more than 200 million Christians from almost every country will unite in prayer for Christ's glory and the transformation of the nations. A live broadcast from every continent is planned and thousands of public venue gatherings are being organized.

The Global Day of Prayer involves a threefold strategy:

1. 6-15 May 2005 – Fasting and praying day and night for 10 days (congregations, cities, regions).
2. 15 May 2005 – Towns, countries and continents uniting to pray in stadiums, churches, market squares, etc. In "closed" countries Christians will come together in other creative ways. Television, radio and Internet broadcasts from around the world are being planned.
3. “90 Days of Blessing� or Community outreach after 15 May 2005. This may include things like evangelism, different types of outreach and help for the poor and needy, etc.

Because organizers emphasize that The Global Day of Prayer is more than a one-day event, a prayer guide has been designed to help focus the prayers of people all over the world from 6-15 May.

In North America, a Ten-Day Prayer Guide is available for purchase and includes biblical prayer ideas for each of the ten days in a simple 16-page pamphlet. To view the Ten-Day Prayer Guide go to: http://www.waymakers.org.

Global Day of Prayer web site: http://www.globaldayofprayer.com

June 24, 2005, 6:00-12:00 p.m., UK time

All across the globe, prayer warriors are linking up to pray for world mission. powerSURGE is joining them. powerSURGE seeks to pray for God’s mission across the world and mobilize the new, emerging generation of prayer warriors for mission.

Youth groups are being invited to pray alongside youth from Africa, India, Sweden and many other nations. Organizers are planning live telephone and video link ups and will be using email to share prayer requests.

powerSurge is being organized by What4, a UK group that helps prepare, encourage and support young people interested in overseas mission, cross-cultural issues or development work.

powerSURGE web site: http://www.what4.org.uk/prayer.htm

The last tribe in Panama to hear the Gospel in their own language will soon begin Bible lessons. Bible teaching by New Tribes Mission will be held among the Naso people group, the last tribe in Panama to hear the Gospel in their own language.

New Tribes missionaries are preparing the lessons and translating Scripture for the teaching sessions that begin in April. Pray that the Naso will clearly understand God's Word and that an indigenous church will grow up.

Full Story from Mission Network News: http://mnn.gospelcom.net/article/7107

By Glenda Weldon, Chair, Intercession Working Group

The words of the risen Christ continue to challenge us as we contemplate all that Easter means to us: “I have been given complete authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this; I am with you always, even to the end of the age.�

“The Resurrection morning was only the beginning of a great outreach that will not end until our Lord Jesus Christ comes back again. The reality of Easter is the reality of the great missionary priority of the Christian Church throughout today’s world.� A.W. Tozer

May the Lord stir our hearts again with the joy and privilege of telling the world that Jesus is alive from the dead and that He is indeed the one and only Saviour of the world.

Praise God:

• David Claydon has almost finished editing the Lausanne Occasional Papers (LOPs) from the 2004 Forum Issue Groups. They will be posted soon on the Lausanne web site – www.lausanne.org.

Please Pray For:

• The completion of the last LOPs so that the editing process may be finalized.
• Lisa Spalt as she oversees the distribution of the Post-Forum Magazine which is currently being translated into the languages of the Forum. Please pray that this magazine will be widely used to spread the news and outcomes of the Forum and as a communication tool for LCWE.
• Dr Antonio Carlos Barro, the newly appointed LCWE Administrative Committee Member-At-Large.
• Jerry White, in his new role as Chair of the LCWE Global CEOs Working Group.
• The Consultation this fall in Kentucky hosted by Global Mission Health and Lausanne on the Role of the Church in the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic.
• The May 25 meeting of Working Group Chairs with Doug Birdsall in Boston, MA.

Fourth International Lausanne Researcher's Conference, April 10-3, Cyprus
Please Pray That:

• The fellowship will be real.
• The stimulus to thinking strategically will be high.
• As a result of the conference, better quality research will be undertaken and the implications worked through better in dozens of research projects around the world in the years ahead.

LCWE Meeting, June 2005, Hong Kong
Please Pray For:

• The LCWE Administrative Committee, International Deputy Directors, Working Group Chairs, Senior Associates and Chairs of National Committees who will attend.
• Doug Birdsall and Robyn Claydon as they plan the agenda for the meeting.
• The Lord to give clear direction as future plans and strategies are formulated, for wisdom and discernment as working though the results of the Forum and for the ties of Christian love and community within the Lausanne movement to be strengthened

Younger Leaders Conference, September 24-October 1, 2006, Thailand
Please Pray For:

• Rick Sessoms and his team as the Conference is planned.
• Paul Stanley, Conference Director.
• The Selection Committee as they gather the names of recommended participants. The goal is to have 500 younger leaders, 25–35 years of age.

LCWE International Deputy Directors
From Francophone Africa - Daniel Bourdanné
Please Pray For:

• General elections that will take place in many Francophone Africa countries including Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo, Chad, DR Congo, Burundi, etc. Elections can be sources of violence. Pray that the Lord will guide and protect these nations.
• The Great Lake region: Rwanda, Burundi, Dr Congo. The region is still very unstable. Pray for peace in that part of the Africa continent.
• Christians to take seriously the challenge of evangelism in the Congo.
• A Lausanne Forum planned for Francophone Africa countries by the end of this year. Pray for God's direction and for resources.

From South Asia - Adrian De Visser
Please Pray For:

• The people whose lives have been devastated by the December tsunami and for wisdom for the aid workers as they use the money that has been so generously provided.
• Daily strength and encouragement from the Lord for Adrian and those who work with him.

LCWE National Committees
Wales Lausanne Cymru
Praise God:

• That they were able to send nine delegates to Thailand all of whom are practitioners in their subject. Each has his or her network in Wales. Please pray for them now that they might be able to have influence within that network.
• For a committed representative working group that includes two statistical research experts from the University of Wales.
  Please Pray For:
• Wales, a mountainous country approximately 8,000 square miles with a bi-lingual population of just over 1 million. Historically the country is economically deprived but is also spiritually blessed. Currently the economy is growing and Wales is blessed with several prayer initiatives. Please be praying for these initiatives, all of which are looking to God for a new awakening including The Crossroads from Campus Crusade for Christ.
• The National Committee as they work to identify which issues they can most effectively address in the nation.
• The National Committee who continues to consult with Denominational leaders in Wales, discussing the possibility of a nationwide survey of church attendance and growth and decline factors.

Australian Lausanne Committee
Praise God:

• For the outstanding leadership that Robyn Claydon has given to this committee and pray God’s continuing blessing on her in her significant ministry around the world.

Please Pray For:

• Dr. Ross Clifford as he takes over as Chair of the Australian Lausanne Committee.
• Rev. Daniel Willis in his new role as LCWE Deputy Director of the Oceana region.

Tentmaking
Please Pray For:

• Tentmakers involved in the rebuilding work after the tsunami in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India.
• Antonio in Portugal, for his job situation.

Unreached People Groups (UPGs)
Over 27% of the world still has almost no access to the Good News. One in four people on earth still have never heard the Gospel even once.
Please Pray For:

• Ethnê06, a global gathering of UPG-focused people, churches and organizations scheduled for March 7-10, 2006. The gathering will be designed to help energize the Body of Christ for continuing initiatives among the world which has almost no access to the gospel by celebrating Great Commission progress among the least-reached peoples, by assessing current opportunities and resources and by accelerating movements to Christ among every people. (www.ethne.net)
• Representatives: That God would bring together key global representatives to function together in the unity of the Spirit in organizing and facilitating this upcoming meeting. For protection, direction, empowering and provision for each one as they serve.
• Resources: God’s provision in time, energy, wisdom, finances and resources for every person and all plans and projects related to this event.
• Revelation: The planning meetings to be divinely fruitful, clear steps forward to be laid out, resources to be released for every phase and reliable champions raised up to take responsibility for each task.
• Relationships: Supernatural covering over all aspects of security, communications, relationships and interactions.
• Releasing: Removing every hindrance to the full accomplishment of everything in God’s heart for this process.

Global Aids Prayer Partnership
Please Pray For:

• God to impart to His Church His answers, as we pray to end AIDS.
• Those on the frontlines of addressing the issue of behaviour as it relates to AIDS.