Lausanne Movement

• Seven Weeks Remaining for Forum Nominations
• International Coalition Meet in Korea for a Mid-term Review of the World Inquiry
• Dr.Eddie Fox to Head up Global Working Group
• Prayer Bulletin

The 2004 Forum nomination and application process has been underway for three months since its January 1 launch, receiving online applications from holistic ministry leaders, educators, pastors, missiologists, evangelists, visionaries, network and denominational leaders from every region of the world.

As the Church faces fresh challenges in this first phase of the new millennium, the 2004 Forum will be a working consultation, bringing together groups of Church leaders to address twenty-four vital issues facing evangelism. Each issue group will be asked to develop specific pragmatic strategies which will stimulate the Church to action, creating recommendation to the Church that could be collaboratively implemented globally, nationally and locally by evangelical leaders. Broad involvement of the global evangelical community is essential to successful fulfillment of this vision, and the selection process has been structured to bring a balanced participant representation by age, gender, region, ministry experience and perspective.

With seven weeks remaining until the May 30th deadline, international ministry leaders are encouraged to visit www.lausanne.org to submit an online application to participate, and to encourage colleagues within their ministry network to submit applications. In cases where geographic location, lack of technology or security sensitivities prohibit online access, international ministry leaders are requested to partner with their two-third world colleagues whenever possible to assist the online submissions. Applications will be reviewed in June 2003, with invitations sent to those who have been selected to participate in July 2003.

A mid-course assessment of the World Inquiry process and preliminary findings by an International Coalition of about 120 Christian leaders worldwide will begin the process of interpreting the meaning for the Church's mission of world evangelization. .

The purpose of the World Inquiry is to enhance world evangelization in the twenty-first century by means of a consultative process to gather, compile, organize, and communicate the burdens, dreams and insights of Christian leaders throughout the world.

In this working consultation scheduled to take place at the Samsung Human Center just outside of Seoul May 7 to 9 the Coalition will assess:

1) the Preliminary Findings of the Quantitative and Qualitative Surveys in which more than 5000 Christian leaders participated from more than 500 cities, nine out ten of the participants were from the two-Thirds World.

2) 21st Century Realities & Dreams of God's Servants who have shared their burdens in stories, writing and interchange during the events worldwide.

3) Some Emerging Streams of Mission from the past thirty years often emerging from the fringe margin of the institutional churches. The leaders of forty-one of these emerging streams have written their story and many will tell it in May.

4) City-Based Action Plans Unveiled in the second phase of the world Inquiry beginning in January will be reported through the facilitators involved in eighteen consultations with 1000 Christian leaders in India, the three largest cities of Indonesia, in Manila, Katmandu and Dhaka, Bangladesh.

5) Position Papers on the World, the Church and the Mission with presentations by respected scholars with a vision for world evangelization and

6) Overview of the process encouraging the emergence of younger leaders committed to world evangelization.

In his welcoming remarks: the World Inquiry International Coalition chairman Sang-Bok David Kim wrote: "As we are moving forward for the task of world evangelization in the 21st century, knowing of the heart and mind of God is of the utmost importance to His servants who are deeply involved in fulfilling His last mandate all over the world."

Dr. Fox Fox a US citizen, has served more than a decade as the World Director of Evangelism for the World Methodist Council. The World Methodist Council is an association of churches in the Wesleyan tradition representing 76 million people in 138 countries. As the World Director, Dr. Fox leads 16 Regional Secretaries of Evangelism in encouraging, enabling and empowering the World Wide Methodist Movement to "Offer Christ Today." For the past 15 years World Methodism has been growing at the rate of one million per year. As part of his responsibility he is the Executive Director of the World Methodist Evangelism Institute, a cooperative ministry of the World Methodist Council and Emory University. This institute is committed to training leaders in evangelism around the whole world with more than 5000 leaders participating in 40 Regional and International Seminars. The Faith Sharing Resources are having a great impact on the Wordwide Methodist Movement. The Faith-Sharing New Testament has sold more than 300,000 (English language) copies and has been published in more than 35 languages.

Dr. Fox's vision for the Global Working Group is to bring together key Global leaders and CEOs who are working to fulfill the Great Commission of Christ Jesus, "Proclaim the Gospel to the whole Creation." This working group will enable persons to share with one another vision, strategy, resources and encouragement in the ministry of World Evangelism. It will enable persons in various world evangelism and mission ministries to link with leaders in denominations in the task of mission and evangelization in order to fulfill the evangelistic mandate in the new millennium.

" For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" John 3:16
"He poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors" Isaiah 53:12

What a glorious message we have to share! As those involved in leadership in the Lausanne Forum 2004 and the World Inquiry meet together in Korea and begin to unpack the key areas to be addressed within each Issue Group, may their hearts be stirred again with deep gratitude, joy and wonder of what God has done for us in Jesus Christ our Saviour and Lord.

Please pray for a fresh outpouring of his Holy Spirit in wisdom, insight and revelation so that each one will be equipped by God for the task ahead,

Colossians 3: 3-4 “Pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should."

World Inquiry and Lausanne Forum 2004 Meetings in Korea May 7-9

• Please pray that people will not be prevented from attending by cancellations, by rescheduled flights or by the SARS Outbreak. We are trusting the Lord together for his provision and protection for every participant.
• Praise God for visible evidence of his provision, sustaining and protection of the online technology over the past three months, and for all the ministry leaders who have submitted applications to participate.

Please pray -

• for those giving leadership to the 2004 Forum on World Evangelization including Dr. Roger Parrott, Chair, David Claydon, International Director and Robyn Claydon, Chair of the Program Committee.
• for Luis Bush and the World Inquiry team as they prepare for the meetings in Korea.
• For the Lord's clear direction in the nomination and invitation process for Forum 2004. Pray particularly for Lisa Tucker as she coordinates this process.
• Pray for a broad spectrum of ministry leaders throughout the world to hear about the Forum and submit applications to participate.
• that the nomination and applications process would exemplify Christ-honouring cooperation and mutual service in the global Christian community.
• that the Lord will guide David Claydon and the Issue group leaders in the selection and invitation process from May - July 2003.
• for the Strategy Working Group, for the selection of the final two issue groups, their leadership, and the preparation that needs to be done immediately.
• for the Issue Group leaders as they meet in Korea and begin work on their topic

David and Robyn Claydon will be going to India on 30th April. Please pray for a daily anointing, enabling and refreshing as they minister their prior to the meetings in Korea

• Robyn is to give the three major talks at a Women's Convention ( Thursday-Friday May 1-2) in Hyderabad and then to speak at a Christian School there (Fri 2nd).
• David will be giving the three major talks for the Men's Convention (May 2-3) (in both cases we will be translated).
  Sat (May 3rd) both of them will meet in Chennai with the newly elected Lausanne National Committee for India and will discuss with them what they might focus on in their program.
• Apart from preparing for these conventions they will also be preparing for talks to be given at a Conference May 7-9 in Korea. They will be training the leadership teams for the 24 Issue Groups at the 2004 Forum

Communications Working Group
PLEASE PRAY for Wing Tai Leung, the new Chair of the LCWE Communications Working Group. and for Naomi Frizzel who will be working with him. We thank God for Kaare Melhus and his years of faithful ministry in his ministry and pray God's special blessing on him and his family as they continue to serve the Lord

The Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism will meet for its seventh International Conference, in Helsinki, Finland, 6-12 August.

• We would appreciate your prayers that we may get renewed boldness in our efforts to take the Gospel to Jewish people
• Please pray for Theresa Newell and all from North America who will be attending the Conference.. Please pray that the Lord will provide for all the financial needs for those planning to attend.
  Please pray also for all those who will be speaking, leading worship, etc. at this most important conference and for those working so hard to plan all the details.

Tentmaking

• Please pray for guidance and protection for Berit Kloser as she speaks at the Tentmaking Conference in Surubaya, Indonesia 2-4 May
• Please pray that key business people will attend.

Wales Lausanne Committee

1. Please pray for the Wales Executive Committee led by Ron.Spillards as they currently identify and nominate candidates in Wales for 13 of the Issue Groups for the 2004 Forum for World Evangelization.
2. 2004 is the100th anniversary of the 1904 Revival in Wales which had a global impact. "Without clinging to the past we are encouraged by what God has done in the past, and hope for greater things in the future" said Christine Spillards, communications officer for Wales Lausanne. Currently there is a huge wave of prayer in Wales and beyond for God to work again.
3. Please pray for the `Sporting Marvels` project in Wales. Ron Spillards of Wales Lausanne has endorsed a hugely exciting project that will start later this year in the world famous Rhondda Valleys. Sporting Marvels aims to restore Jesus as Lord of the valleys, and you can find out all about the ambitious project, including a prayer strategy that has been described as the `most intensive prayer campaign....ever!` by visiting www.sportingmarvels.com

Intercession Working Group

• Praise God for the growing number of people praying for the Forum
• Praise God that we will have a team of intercessors at the Forum .
• Please pray that the Lord will bring together those of his choice for this very strategic and vital ministry.

Glenda Weldon
Chair, Intercession Working Group, LCWE