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The Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization has announced the dates and location for the Third International Congress on World Evangelization. Lausanne III: Cape Town 2010 will be held 16-25 October 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa. The world is radically different from 1974, the date of the First Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelization. There are opportunities, challenges, and technologies that exist now that could not have been imagined at the time of Lausanne I or Lausanne II in 1989. Lausanne III will be the first international world evangelization congress of the third millennium. Doug Birdsall, Executive Chair of Lausanne says, “It’s imperative that we convene the ‘elders of the church’ – both the wisdom leaders and the action leaders – to wrestle with the challenges and opportunities before us with respect to world evangelization. We must do a thorough assessment of the state of the church, the nature of the gospel, and the condition of the world in which we live and then determine together how we will respond.” Lausanne III will serve as a “church council” in an attempt to formulate convictions about the changeless Gospel in such a way that makes sense in our rapidly changing world. Lausanne III will also serve as a catalyst to motivate the global church to courageous, creative, and collaborative response to the challenges before it. Lausanne III participants will reflect the demographic and theological realities of the church. As such, Lausanne III will be a microcosm of the church as Lausanne leaders work to build appropriate bridges with like-minded believers. Special emphasis will be placed on involving women, younger leaders and laity. The leadership for Lausanne III is truly global in nature. International Anglican Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda will serve as the chairman of the Africa Host Committee. The Lausanne III Advisory Council is chaired by Dr. Samuel Escobar from Latin America. Bishop Hwa Yung, of the Methodist Church in Malaysia, is chairman of the Participant Selection Committee. The Programme Committee will be chaired by Mr. Ramez Atallah, Director of the Bible Society of Egypt. Lausanne III Congress Director Rev. Blair T. Carlson, a former International Crusade Director for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, grew up in Hong Kong and has spent most of his life working and living in locations around the world. Participants onsite in Cape Town will number about 4000. However, the desire is to develop an “open source” congress which will allow potentially hundreds of thousands of people to participate in integral ways all around the world. The Lausanne Bi-Annual International Leadership Meeting in Budapest next month will take the first major step in planning Lausanne III by addressing participant selection, programme and communications/technology. Please be praying for this very important meeting. Read Lausanne III News Release Online in Chinese, English, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish Source: Langham Partnership
He will also be moving from his flat in London, where he has lived for more than 30 years, to a retirement community for Anglican clergy in the south of England. Dr. Stott’s retirement means that he no longer intends to engage in public speaking ministry. He continues to hold the titles that express his honored role in several contexts, including: Founder and Honorary President of the Langham Partnership International; Rector Emeritus at All Souls Church, Langham Place; Extra Chaplain to the Queen; and Honorary Chair of the Lausanne Movement. Dr. Stott was the chair of the drafting committees for The Lausanne Covenant and the Manila Manifesto. Dr. Stott says the Langham Partnership International (or John Stott Ministries, in USA), is well prepared to continue its work, even after his retirement. Dr. Chris Wright assumed the leadership of the organisation from John in 2001, and there is now a strong team of international programme managers and other staff and volunteers all over the world making sure that the work develops strongly into the future. More: By Elke Werner
The Bible teachers at the conference were Noor van Haaften, Netherlands and Reona Joly-Peterson, Great Britian. Emily Voorhies from “Women of Global Action” and I (Elke Werner, Senior Associate for Women in Evangelism in Lausanne), spoke at plenary sessions and held seminars. The highlight of the conference was listening to the country reports. As this was the 6th European Women’s conference, we were able to look back and see how God has used these meetings to plant interdenominational national movements among women. So, women in Germany, France, Moldova and many other countries are working together to reach their people for Christ. We heard again how influential Christians had been in the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. And we saw our sisters from Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia standing together for unity and reconciliation, which only Jesus can bring.
The last day of these conferences is always used to invite women from the area for an evangelistic outreach. This time the Logos II ship was in the harbour of the nearby town of Rijeka and was used to host a women’s day. Some 250 Croatian women came and about 30 responded to the invitation to become a Christian. What a joy for all of us at the conference and what an encouragement for the women in Croatia, who had never before been invited to such a day! Hope for Europe was founded as an initiative to join forces of the European Evangelical Alliance, Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and AD 2000. It has continued in working groups and at annual European Roundtable meetings. The meeting of the women’s track takes place every two years. Source: Bible Society NSW
“To see so many people, 90 percent of whom were retired, quietly listening and taking notes, was truly amazing. I was happy to bring them a greeting from Bible Society NSW, but it was they who ministered to me by the way they listened and the passionate way the pastor explained Paul’s letter to them,” said Willis.
“The Dongguan Church in Shenyang baptises over 1000 new believers each year in two services of 500 people. Founded by Scotsman John Ross in 1866, the church is said to be one of the most influential in north-east China,” Willis concluded. Daniel Willis also serves as the Lausanne International Deputy Director for Oceania and Australia. Hastening the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ among targeted Unreached People Groups (UPGs), learning from each other, and increasing stewardship of ministry resources by eliminating ministry duplication, was the focus of a recent meeting in Minnesota, USA. John Quam, National Facilitator of International Ministries for the Mission America Coalition, says 32 lay people and ministry leaders met together to prayerfully consider whether better coordination was needed by North American groups involved in UPG ministry. The meeting was the result of more than two years of dialogue and prayer, according to Quam. The leaders, representing 12 networks that collaborate in UPG partnerships, were from churches and ministries focused on Indonesia, Iran and Iraq, and the Wolof, Uygur and Azerbaijani people groups. Expressing concern that many UPG partnerships are now struggling, a missions pastor at a large Midwestern church asked, “How can we pool our resources and properly respond so that these [UPG] partnerships will flourish?” After two days of intensive discussion and prayer, leaders felt God’s call to develop the North American Unreached People’s Network (NAUPN) to help coordinate the work of North American UPG ministry. Organizers say NAUPN will be a forum where connections, information, models and partnership in prayer and discernment will enhance the urgency and capacity of every UPG network. NAUPN will also help catalyze new UPG networks and connect with global south Christian leaders. The leadership team of Mark Snelling (Antioch Network), Allen McClellan (Impact), John Quam (Mission America Coalition) and Bill Sunderland (visionSynergy) that organized the Minneapolis meeting, along with help from six others, will serve the newly formed NAUPN. Additionally, four task forces will develop a follow-up consultation addressing UPG partnership formation/operation, developing non-western partnerships/networks and accessing the status of work among UPGs. The consultation, open to anyone in North America involved in UPG work, is scheduled for 27-29 November 2007 in Dallas, TX, USA. To learn more about NAUPN, email John Quam at Tm shkpostiosoite on suojattu roskapostia vastaan, aseta javascripttuki plle nhdksesi osoitteen. or Tm shkpostiosoite on suojattu roskapostia vastaan, aseta javascripttuki plle nhdksesi osoitteen. .
For instructions on how to display the “Unreached People of the Day” on your website and samples of sites using the feed go to: http://www.joshuaproject.net/upgotdfeed.php For more information, email Tm shkpostiosoite on suojattu roskapostia vastaan, aseta javascripttuki plle nhdksesi osoitteen. or go to www.joshuaproject.net. By Susana Rossi, Lausanne Intercession Working Group in Latin America Psalm 2:8 tells the believers to ask for the nations as our inheritance, and Jeremiah 33:3 tells us to "Call unto me, and I will answer, and show you great and mighty things that you know not." God acts in response to His people’s prayer, his children need to ask. Please pray:
Please also be praying for the 25-28 June National Workshop on Transformational Mentoring and Leadership Development for leaders of Mission Boards and Bible Schools, Christian Organizations and NGOs, Para-Church Organizations, Denominations, CEOs and Founders of Emerging Ministries in Cameroon. The workshop will be hosted by Zarephath Foundation for Development and Cooperation (Cameroon) in collaboration with Mentorlink International (USA). They request concerted prayers for the following:
Communication—whether in-person or via Internet, telephone or email—is a necessary element in the unity of the global Church and the mission to share the message of Christ with those who have not heard. In a day when millions of people use email, telephone and other technology, understanding the whole of communications and the means and methods of communicating is important. This issue of Lausanne World Pulse focuses on International Communication and the Church. Here are some of articles you will find:
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Dr. John Stott would like his many friends around the world to know that, having reached the age of 86 in April, he has made the decision to retire from public ministry after fulfilling one last speaking engagement at the upcoming Keswick Convention in July.
What a joy to see 70 women from about 20 different European countries gather at the beautiful coast of Crikvenica, Croatia. Women of different languages, age, culture and church-background met to celebrate the hope they have in Jesus Christ: the hope to change Europe. 
We also shared the prayer requests of our countries and we were able to identify problems that we all have, women both in Eastern and Western Europe, such as: high divorce rate; alcoholism; single moms; moral issues; post-modern thinking; and trauma from the recent wars in the Balkans. As some of us knew personally one of the Christian workers who were killed in Turkey recently, we spent a lot of time in prayer for the persecuted church in Turkey and Iraq. 
Daniel Willis, CEO of Bible Society NSW, was welcomed by 82-year-old Senior Pastor Lu Zhi Bin and invited by her to address the Thursday morning Bible study at the Dongguan Protestant Church in Shenyang, northeast China recently. “They were working through 2nd Corinthians with one of their other pastors and it was a privilege to address the 5000 people who come each weekday for morning Bible study,” Willis stated. 
Willis was in China to visit churches in Beijing, Shenyang and Benxi to see how Bible Society NSW can partner with local Bishops and Senior Pastors in providing copies of the Bible. “Whilst the Bible is freely printed and legally available in China, not everyone can afford their own copy. We visited a rural Catholic Church which served 300 local farming families. Through the generosity of our donors, we were able to give each family their own Bible to take home,” he said. “To see the joy on their faces and the way they held the Bible to themselves as they received it, showed me how much they appreciated the gift of the Word of God. They had a special service where they each dedicated themselves to reading the Bible they had received. As we drove down the street on our way to visit a family for lunch, we saw a man sitting against the wall of a house reading his copy of the Bible we had just handed out,” he added.
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