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New IFES Leader  At its 2007 World Assembly in Ontario, Canada, Dr Daniel Bourdanné of Chad became the fourth General Secretary of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), succeeding Lindsay Brown. The Fellowship’s primary calling is to proclaim Christ in the world’s universities. Now in its 60th anniversary year, IFES has movements in 152 nations, with only 17 countries still to be pioneered.Dr. Daniel Bourdanné also serves as the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization’s International Deputy Director for Francophone Africa. Lindsay Brown is Lausanne’s International Director.
Grounded in Scripture and richly illustrated with the real-life experiences of prominent Christian leaders from around the world—Croatia, Egypt, Japan, Kenya, Great Britain, and the United States—Living and Leading like Jesus presents an inspiring biblical and global portrait of Christ-like servant-leadership. The book’s editor is Judd Birdsall, son of Lausanne’s executive chair Doug Birdsall and himself a former research assistant with the Lausanne Committee. Birdsall says in his preface that he altered the transcript of each speech as little as possible, leaving intact each speaker’s unique voice. Many YLG-specific references were left in the manuscript so as to give readers a sense of what it was like to actually attend the landmark global forum. Living and Leading like Jesus divides thematically into three sections. In the first four chapters, Christian ministry leaders Michael Oh, Doug Birdsall, Ramez Atallah, and Peter Kuzmic introduce Lausanne and the YLG by sharing how their lives and ministries have been greatly enriched by their participation in the Lausanne Movement. “ Lausanne ’74 truly transformed my life,” says Peter Kuzmic in his chapter on “Leadership and the Whole Gospel.” The Lausanne Movement helped Kuzmic realize that “all theology must be missiologically focused…[and] all missiology must be theologically grounded.” The next three chapters deal specifically with ministry leadership. Mutua Mahiaini, Africa director for the Navigators, takes readers on a biblical exploration of true servant-leadership. In her chapter on “Leading People to Christ,” speaker and author Rebecca Pippert argues that evangelism can be hampered by an underestimation or an overestimation of the power of sin. Pippert encourages would-be evangelists to continually bear two truths in mind: we crucified Jesus and we were crucified with Jesus. Ajith Fernando, national director for Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka, mines the high priestly prayer in John 17 for principles Jesus used to develop his disciples into effective Christian leaders. The final section of the book provides something of a commission to readers. Phill Butler encourages greater partnership and collaboration among Christian ministries. Jason Mandryk examines how far the church has come and how far the church still has to go to complete the Great Commission. Illustrated with a number of helpful charts and graphs, Mandryck’s chapter alerts readers to the ongoing challenge of evangelizing unreached people groups and the need to address strategic issues such as poverty, disease, and refugees. The book concludes with final charge from Lausanne’s chairman. Doug Birdsall, calls for a rigorous commitment to integrity in ministry. “The gospel message will never be heard as good news,” he says, “if the messenger is bad news.” Birdsall implored the young leaders assembled in Malaysia to respond thoughtfully and courageously to the social and spiritual challenges of their generation. Living and Leading like Jesus has received endorsement from many church leaders, including John Stott, Lausanne’s Honorary Chair. In his back cover commendation Stott writes, “It is excellent that the addresses given at that conference have now been published and so are available for wide and careful study.” Those interested in purchasing the book may visit the William Carey Library’s website. Also available from the William Carey Library is A New Vision, A New Heart, A Renewed Call, Lausanne Occasional Papers from the 2004 Forum for World Evangelization hosted by the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization in Pattaya, Thailand. The three volume set is available for purchase.
Mentoring that Builds Discipleship and Spiritual Formation – Reflections on the Lausanne Budapest Meeting
By Dr. Ross Clifford, President of the Baptist Union of Australia
 I have just returned from Budapest where I attended the annual [leadership] gathering of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelisation. I went in my role as Australian Chair of Lausanne and to participate in the planning of Lausanne III – 2010 in Cape Town. The prayer is that Lausanne III will be as significant as the first Lausanne in 1974. 1974 gave us the Lausanne Covenant (under the guidance of John Stott), a clear focus on unreached people groups, and a call for evangelicals to embrace the whole gospel ie word and deed. 1974 was possibly the most important meeting of evangelicals for the last 200 years or so. What I found myself reflecting on, on that long trip home – some 34 hours – was the way the Lausanne movement raises up a new generation of leaders. Lausanne is not an institution, it is truly a movement. Norsk Råd for Misjon og Evangelisering - Norwegian Council for Mission and Evangelization
By Rolf Ekenes, Director of NORME
 NORME is the 2001 merger of the Evangelical Alliance, the Norwegian Mission Council and the Lausanne Committee Norway. NORME consists of, at the moment, 33 Norwegian church bodies and organisations dealing with mission and evangelization, in addition to congregations and local churches as well as personal members, both within and outside the Norwegian State Church.The purpose of NORME is to be an inspiring source which both challenges and helps its church and organisation members to bring the gospel to new groups of people globally, regionally and locally. NORME keeps its members updated on missional trends and developments internationally, and keeps up relationships with agencies like the World Evangelical Alliance, the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, European Evangelical Alliance, DAWN Europe, European Evangelical Missionary Alliance and the like. In addition NORME is a meeting place and a center for discussion, prayer and sharing between church and mission leaders in Norway. NORME also arranges meetings and conferences together with one or several of its members, focusing on a particular subject within the mission- or evangelization area. NORME has its General assembly each September with focus on a missiological topic of current interest. Approximately one hundred people attend the annual LINK conference arranged by NORME. NORME has a full time director but no staff other than that. NORME has its financial income based merely on membership fees.  Lausanne in Motion, the Billy Graham Center Archives’ Bulletin Board for August, features a film produced to report on the 1974 Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelization and broaden the united global Evangelical effort to spread the Christian gospel. The film includes excerpts of plenary speakers, including Billy Graham, John Stott, Ugandan bishop Festo Kivengere and others. See the 43-minute film (Real Media format), Let the Earth Hear His Voice. The Lausanne Congress was held in Switzerland in July 1974 and attended by 2,300 Evangelical leaders from 150 countries. Outcomes from the event included the creation of Lausanne Covenant that has become an Evangelical standard for belief and lifestyle, and the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization that emerged in 1975 as the organizational form of the movement. The Congress was intended to establish networks at national and regional levels as well as internationally. The film and the extensive documents related to Lausanne’s history are available in the Archives’ Records of the Lausanne Committee (Collection 46; guide to collection). The archives offer a glimpse into the growing influence of the southern global church and its leaders in the spread of the gospel. By John Abraham Godson, Lausanne Intercession Working Group Vice Chair, founder Pilgrim Mission
“He took Peter and Zebedee’s two sons, James and John, and he became anguished and distressed. He told them, ‘My soul is crushed with grief to the pint of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.’ He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground praying. ‘My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.’ Then he returned to the disciples and found them asleep. He said to Peter, ‘Couldn’t you watch with me even one hour? Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak,’” Matthew 26:37-41 (NLT). One of the prime calls of God’s servants is to pray. This is a strategic tool God has given to help us accomplish His call upon our lives. In the life of our Master, Jesus, we see him over and over again giving premium time and attention to prayer. It was his habit to wake up “a great while before it was day” to spend time in prayer. Many times, he separated himself from the crowd and from ministry to be alone with God. We can also note that spending all night in prayer and communion with God was his common practice. If Jesus, being the son of God, needed to pray so much in order to accomplish God’s call upon his life, how much more do we his servants need to cultivate the practice of protracted times and seasons of prayer retreats to seek God. If we are not praying, we cannot be a force for advancing Christ’s Kingdom on earth. Our lives and ministries will be feeble and beggarly. If we are not praying, we are playing! Praise God for:
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“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat. But I have pleaded in prayer for you, Simon that your faith should not fail. So when you have repented and turned to me again, strengthen your brothers,” Luke 22:31-32 (NLT). In the August edition of Lausanne World Pulse, the important issue of Reaching Families for Christ is explored. How do Christians share the gospel with spouses, children, parents and siblings and is this central to our obligation of sharing the gospel with the “whole world”? Below is a sample of what you will find this month:
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Questions or comments about Lausanne World Pulse may be sent to Denne e-postadressen er beskyttet mot programmer som samler e-postadresser, du m sl p Javascript for kunne se den. . For more information on how to submit an article, please visit www.lausanneworldpulse.com/submit.php. “Unto the Least of These.” This powerful phrase held deep meaning for Jesus during his earthly ministry as he reached out to the poor, the powerless and the weak. His heart was inherently bent toward those whom society rejected. Take a new look at ministering to and with the disabled, migrants and those in poverty in the September issue of Lausanne World Pulse.
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Speaking to the 2007 Keswick Convention, Dr. John Stott, Honorary Chair of the Lausanne Movement, in his final public address, spoke on the central purposes of God - transforming His people into the image of Christ.
The plenary addresses from the 2006 Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering (YLG) have been published by the William Carey Library in a book entitled Living and Leading like Jesus. 
