The Countdown Is On
| Written by Naomi A. Frizzell |
| Wednesday, 09 December 2009 18:16 |
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As I write this blog today, Cape Town 2010 is 311 days away. 311 days away – whew. 311 DAYS AWAY – YIKES!!!
To serve the 4000-plus people onsite is no small task. Papers need to be written by speakers, multiplex sessions organized, volunteers identified, media registered, meals planned, website pages developed, equipment and furniture ordered, videos edited, Internet technology expanded, registrations completed, hotels booked, airplane tickets purchased, music and drama rehearsed, and on it goes. Every day I receive emails from people who are just learning about Cape Town 2010 and want to attend onsite. Understandably, many express disappointment when I tell them that the application period for onsite participants ended several months ago. Yet, many also express surprise and delight that being onsite in Cape Town is not the only way they can participate. God willing, as never before Cape Town 2010 will bring leaders together from around the world - both onsite and through technology - in a truly global conversation around the issues facing the evangelical church in sharing Christ in word and deed. No matter where you are, you have the opportunity to participate in Cape Town 2010 today through:
No matter where we are on the globe, as brothers and sisters in Christ we are linked together through the love of God, in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit and by our desire to share Christ so that all the world may know him. The countdown is on toward October 2010. Won’t you consider how you can be involved?
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Part of me grows short of breath and weak in the knees (figuratively
and sometimes literally!) when I think about how few days there are between now
and then. We’ve been planning for Cape
Town 2010 (CT2010) for almost five years and it has seemed sometimes as if the
day would never come and now it’s just around the corner.
Comments
Thanks so much for your help in letting other people know about the Cape Town GlobaLink and the Lausanne Global Conversation - it's much appreciated. I look forward to seeing you in Cape Town!
Your hands will be full and "soiled" this year and specially as we draw closer to Cape Town. May God grant you and the LCWE Leaders tons of grace. I am not alone but many readers apprecaited the Update and the way you inspire the global Church to paricipate. Yes, the "countdown is on! " So, take courage!
Thanks for all you and your team are doing in ministry to and with the Diaspora.
May God bless you in this exciting New Year!
Naomi
Our daughter is leaving 3February for Cape town, to be with friends, to see the Redeemer Presbyterian Church of NYC become a part of S.A/ Capetown, be with an AIDS house etc. She would like to see how she as a New Yorker can be a part of LCWE. I am so excited because I was years ago in Lausanne Switserland, that was a life changing experience. Never forget the Bible study each morning and the prayer time for the suffering church. I worked with Corrie ten Boom and for her to see our friends from Cuba, Russia, Uganda, was an heavenly experience.Johanna loves the Lord and I pray that somehow doors will open for her. May all those who will come this year, find their hearts "strangely warmth". Blessings and Jesus is Victor, Ellen Stamps
I feel your nerves!!! I am very excited and yet humbled by the scope of this undertaking The good thing about it all is that THE CHURCH will be gathering, and HISTORY will be made....hopefully we will re-set a new clock that will start ticking towards achieving all the goals and issues that the congress will focus on.