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Greetings!

Today's Lausanne ENewsletter includes ways to stay connected to the activities resulting from the 2004 Forum and a prayer effort surrounding World AIDS Day (December 1). You'll also find other relevant missions and evangelism news. To recommend a story or news item for a future edition of the Lausanne ENewsletter, please email us.

May the Lord bless you!

Naomi A. Frizzell
Editor

2004 Forum Connections

The 2004 Forum for World Evangelization Issue Groups continue their work beyond the Forum by producing Lausanne Occasional Papers (LOPs) and developing long-term relationships among individuals, ministries and denominations. The following links will help you stay connected to the ongoing work of the Forum and some of its Issue Groups:

In the coming weeks, you'll be hearing more about a post-Forum magazine and video project that will provide an overview of the 2004 Forum and cast vision for working together on the task of global evangelization. The magazine and video are scheduled for completion by the end of the first quarter 2005.

World AIDS Day - December 1

Since 1988, December 1st has been designated as World Day AIDS, a day of remembrance for those dying and suffering due to AIDS. A ministry partnership is calling for a global Christian response to AIDS and is supporting a day of prayer and remembrance on World AIDS Day. The Global AIDS Prayer Partnership is a new initiative to mobilize united prayer and action to bring about the reversal and eradication of AIDS.

Global AIDS Prayer Partnership

The Hope Factor: Engaging the Church in the HIV/AIDS Crisis

More than 3 million people died of AIDS last year - about 8,000 per day. Another 5 million were infected with the HIV virus. And the numbers are growing.

The Hope Factor is a new book by Tetsunao Yamamori (International Director of Lausanne), David Dageforde (Board of Directors of SOZO International and Project MedSend) and Tina Bruner (missions director at Southeast Christian Church, Louisville, Kentucky, USA and president of SOZO International) on the HIV/AIDS crisis.

What role does the Church play in this growing AIDS crisis? The church must continue to give hope to the hopeless--those languishing alone. We must use the HIV/AIDS crisis to demonstrate the love of Christ by caring for AIDS sufferers, their family members and their communities by whatever means available.

To that end, in November 2003, over 3,000 participants gathered to address the issues of the church and the HIV/AIDS crisis. The Hope Factor captures the findings of some of the world's top minds and hearts dealing with the issue of AIDS. It shows how the Western church can come alongside and help people impacted by AIDS.

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South Korea - Missions Sending Force

Only a few decades after South Korea began deploying missionaries, it has more than 12,000 missionaries abroad. The United States has 46,000 missionaries and Britain has 6,000, according to The New York Times.

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MAF Relocates To Idaho

For all of its 60-year history, Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) USA has called Southern California "home." However, the rising cost of living and of conducting business in Southern California led the international ministry to conduct an extensive relocation study. Based on that study, the MAF Board of Directors has announced its unanimous decision to relocate the organization's headquarters to the Boise, Idaho, USA area. The move is targeted for the summer of 2005.

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New CEO At Mercy Ships

Mercy Ships International, a leader in delivering free world-class healthcare services to the poor through a growing fleet of hospital ships, has a new Chief Executive Officer. The Board of Directors of Mercy Ships International has elected Stephen A. Koinis as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2005. Koinis was also elected a director and a member of the board Executive Committee, effective immediately.

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Praise & Prayer

By Glenda Weldon, Chair, Intercession Working Group

"Live in Me. Make your home in Me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can't bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with Me. I am the Vine and you are the branches. When you are joined with Me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated you can't do a thing." John 15:4-5 (The Message)

One of the enduring memories of the 2004 Forum was the strong call from the Lord to be empowered by Him through His precious Holy Spirit for both holiness of life and fruitfulness in ministry. May we all continue to go deeper in understanding and experiencing what it means to truly be "a branch in the Vine!"

Praise God For:

  • The wonderful spirit at the 2004 Forum. God richly blessed us and it was wonderful to have people from so many different parts of the world engaged in a process that began some months earlier and will continue beyond the Forum.
  • The number of Issue Groups that have decided to form a continuing network and arrange ongoing dialogue on their particular issue.

Please Pray For:

  • David Claydon in the important and demanding task of editing the 31 Issue Group papers which will become Lausanne Occasional Papers (LOPs). The projected completion is the end of the first quarter 2005.
  • The members of the Lausanne Administrative Committee and International Deputy Directors. Each one has heavy ministry responsibilities in addition to their commitment to Lausanne. Please pray for daily refreshment in the Lord, for strength, insight, wisdom and a deep joy and peace as they "follow the path He has laid out for them."
  • The Lausanne India Committee meeting in Bangalore December 17-18, 2004, that the Lord will guide their thinking, planning and deliberations as to the future of the Movement in India. Dr Emil Jebasing is leading this gathering.
  • The proposed January 2005 follow up meeting to the 2004 Forum in Chennai. Participants of the Forum from Tamil Nadu are planning to meet together and make plans for future ministry.

Issue Group Prayer Requests

Please Pray For:

Oral Learners
- the persons who have been asked to accept positions on the Executive Committee of the Lausanne Task Force for Making Disciples of Oral Learners.
- the negotiations with the Oral Bible Network to be merged with the above task force.
- the development of the Orality website and networking for the task force.
- the wide distribution of the LOP on Making Disciples of Oral Learners. Pray that it will be a "tipping point" for expanding oral strategies among the unreached.
- a worldwide effectiveness of a network of Bible Storyers who will take God's Story to the unreached peoples of the world through telling chronological Bible stories.

Bioethics
- for Denise Cooper-Clarke in Australia writing up their LOP.
- that IG members will continue to take the fruits of their discussions in Thailand into their respective workplaces.

Non-Traditional Families
- members as they work on their contributions to the LOP.
- the sub-group meeting in the Netherlands in early December to bring the contributions into one document.

Evangelism of Children
This group has set up its own prayer network to keep in touch and is establishing a website to further the "cause" of children's evangelisation.
- churches who will read the LOP, that they would catch the vision for children's evangelism at a global as well as a local level so that every child may hear of Jesus Christ.
- that churches would see the potential of children as key participants in evangelism.

Children at Risk
- for Patrick McDonald and his team as they plan to bring more people together than ever to cry out to God for the hurting children of the world through the 10th World Wide Day of Prayer for Children at Risk on June 4, 2005.