Lausanne Movement

S. Kent Parks, Ph.D., Facilitator

The Ethnê Initiative is focused on the 27.9% of the world which have almost no access to the Gospel in its many forms (e.g. word evangelism, deed evangelism, miracle evangelism), and continues to move forward in some exciting ways.  The work of various strategy groups include:

Ethnê Prayer Initiative:  After the Global Day (Week) of Prayer May 17-27, the Ethnê Prayer Initiative begins its second year with a new schedule of prayer/outreach.  In the month of June, the focus is on the Least Reached of the South Pacific and Southeast Asia.

Various local, national, topical and regional prayer networks are formally involved (with a combined membership of 1.5 million intercessors).  Joshua Project and Global Prayer Digest are especially helpful in providing online data and web access to daily prayer requests for each of the 365 days of this second cycle of the prayer initiative.

To link prayer & outreach, Ethnê presents a new e-tool which will link specific prayer requests of up to ten lines which can be submitted by anyone working among the Least Reached.  Then, recipients indicate they are praying by hitting "reply" and may also subscribe for bi-weekly updates, thus creating two-way communication between workers & pray-ers. Pray for this new tool & for our 2nd year of 1.5 million people who pray & reach out to UPGs globally!

Ethnê Member Care Initiative:  This working group is seeking to connect workers among the Least Reached to any member care resources and member care professionals as they need. Connectivity is being created through a monthly email update (see www.ethne.net/membercare).

Ethnê Student Mission Movement Initiative (focused on the Least Reached)  This strategy group is continuing to link key Student/Young Professional mission mobilization movements together to create a global synergy.  A meeting was held in Singapore in October 2006 with key leaders of such networks.  They are helping to initiate a “Year of Prayerâ€� for the Asian Student Mission Movement (July 07 to July 08).  They will have a conference in tandem with Mission Korea Student Mission Conference where they will bring together mobilizers from around Asia to envision next steps in the movement.

Ethnê Frontier Crisis Response Network:  This network is working to connect with various UPG-focused Networks and Partnerships in an effort to increase collective readiness to respond strategically to major crises which will continue to occur among the Least Reached.  The Goal is to connect resources globally, and provide professional training in order that such networks can respond quickly in major crises.  The goal is not to become a network of “first respondersâ€� but to join together as quickly as possible, to work with professionalism and integrity, and to provide credibility for long term ministry teams to remain among the affected people.  Finally, this network’s main focus is to see church planting movements developed but the main role will be the relief side with long term work handed over to local UPG-focused networks, churches and leaders.  More information can be obtained by contacting the Frontier Crisis Response Network by emailing Denne e-postadressen er beskyttet mot programmer som samler e-postadresser, du må slå på Javascript for å kunne se den. .

Transition to New Ethnê Steering Committee:  We continue to move forward to a re-formation of a Steering Committee for the next cycle.  This transition is intentional.  About half of the Steering Committee will be from the previous group and about half will be from COMIBAM (the Ibero-American Mission network) rather than from SEALINK (the SE Asia Network) as during the first cycle.  This adjustment is in line with the original intent to allow the core of each Steering Committee to be from a different region of the world each time.