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The Asbury Revival and Our Hunger for God

Billy Coppedge | 27 Feb 2023

A single question runs right from the garden of Eden through all of human experience: To whom will I look to satisfy my hunger? ‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.’—Matthew 5:6 On February 8, 2023, God visited Asbury University in the small town of Wilmore, Kentucky in a truly unique…

Empowering Younger Leaders in the Majority World

Micaela Braithwaite | 10 Feb 2023

A Lausanne scholarship initiative equips younger leaders from the Majority World with graduate education to help shape the world for Christ. Throughout the history of the Lausanne Movement, experienced leaders have opened doors for younger leaders to pursue formal study. This embodies the Movement’s mission to connect influencers and ideas for global mission. The Lausanne…

Could ChatGPT Make Disciples?

Jason Watson | 09 Feb 2023

Out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT what I needed to do to become a disciple. This was its instant response. As a millennial, I consider myself pretty tech-savvy. While I can’t write code, fix your broken laptop, or hack into a server for you, I can comfortably navigate between different devices or platforms and quickly…

Nominations for Lausanne 4 Gatherings—Including the Seoul 2024 Congress—Have Opened

Lausanne Movement | 03 Feb 2023

The Lausanne Movement is pleased to announce the opening of participant nominations for Lausanne 4 gatherings, which include the various regional gatherings in 2023 and the Seoul 2024 Congress. Nominate Now Participant Selection The prayerful, open, and rigorous participant selection process is one which has formed a core element in every major gathering and congress…

Living in the New Era of Global Mission

Justin Schell | 31 Jan 2023

In the past 100 years, the face of Christianity has drastically changed. What does this mean for believers globally? I have a friend living in the London area. He recently shared a story with me that reflects the changing shape of the global church. He said, ‘Since I’ve lived in London, I’ve had three people approach me…

Mental Health Literacy as a Ministry Skill

Edmund Ng | 24 Jan 2023

A 2021 mental health meta-analysis of 35 studies in South Asia during the Covid-19 pandemic shows a high prevalence of 34 percent for depression and 41 percent for anxiety. If South Asia is taken as representative of Asia, more than 1.5 billion people out of the total Asian population of 4.7 billion are currently struggling…

God’s Heart for Children

Michelle Tolentino & Kimberly Iannelli | 16 Jan 2023

What is the role of the church in fulfilling Christ’s heart for children, especially those who live daily in extreme risk? We live in an unprecedented time in history as the Global Church rises up to seriously address the importance of children, especially considering all of the children at risk. We see these children in…

Church in a Digital Age

Jonas Kurlberg | 13 Jan 2023

Digital media is now an unavoidable fact of life for many across the world. What does this mean for our Christian communities? For an increasing proportion of the global population, digital forms of communication are becoming normalised in everyday life. A telling statistic in the latest We Are Social annual report is that the world’s…

Ten Questions That Will Shape 2050

Matthew Niermann | 06 Jan 2023

As part of the Lausanne 4 process, we cast our eyes to the horizon and ask how we can steward the Great Commission in the decades ahead, between now and 2050. Yet in doing so, we must humbly recognize that we live in a dichotomy between the certainty and the uncertainty of the future. I…

The Technology Gap

Adam Graber | 22 Dec 2022

Christian leaders affirm technology’s importance, but often fail to see it as a gap deserving further research. If you ask the average missional leader what the biggest influence will be on the Great Commission by 2050, they are likely to say, ‘technology’. But if you ask, ‘What should Christians do about it today?’, their response…

Towards a Theology of Orality

Billy Coppedge | 15 Dec 2022

There is a common misunderstanding circulating in some mission circles today regarding orality. When the topic surfaces, people will often nod politely about its importance for groups with no or limited literacy skills, emphasize that is not their intended audience, and move on to the next conversation. However, such a narrow view of orality fails…

Introducing the Lausanne Leadership Journey

Micaela Braithwaite | 08 Dec 2022

The Lausanne Leadership Journey (LLJ) is a new endeavour that seeks to impact the next generation of Christian leaders who will be the global leaders and influencers in the year 2050. The vision for LLJ came by looking at the impact Billy Graham and John Stott had on the global church in bringing together hundreds…

Come and See, Go and Tell

Justin Schell | 30 Nov 2022

I became a believer at the end of my freshman year at university. Almost immediately, I began to hear from leaders of my campus ministry about God’s heart for the nations of the world. As I read verse after verse from Scripture that declared God’s love for men and women from every tribe, language, people, and…

Myths, Truths, and Opportunities for Mission in Europe

Jim Memory | 23 Nov 2022

Viewed from the outside, European countries appear to have a lot in common: a shared history of wars, alliances, and trade that have served to divide and unite them; a broader cultural exchange that has extended over a period of more than two thousand years; and a certain European mindset, worldview, or ‘spirit’. We must…

Evangelicals and Orthodox Christians Taking Hands

Sara Kyoungah White | 10 Nov 2022

An evangelical businesswoman and an Orthodox archbishop are leading a global initiative bringing together evangelical and Orthodox Christians around the mission of God. The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town in 2010 brought together over 4,000 evangelical Christian leaders from nearly every country in the world. But alongside these leaders were a…

A Snapshot of the Asia 2022 Congress

Karan Thomas | 04 Nov 2022

From 17–21 October, over six hundred Christian leaders from more than twenty countries in Asia gathered in Thailand for the Asia 2022 congress, ‘Rethinking Church and Mission: God’s Agenda for Today’. Participants represented various spheres of ministry, including church leaders, pastors, organisational heads, and social entrepreneurs. Asia constitutes nearly 60 percent of the world’s population,…

How Global Is Your Faith?

Michael Oh | 25 Oct 2022

Toward the end of this year, something remarkable will happen. The 8 billionth person will be born in the world. When considering the global population, we often think about China, with 1.45 billion people, and India, with 1.4 billion. There are reasons for us as Christians to be concerned about both nations. China is a…

Politics and Prayer in Africa

Micaela Braithwaite | 24 Oct 2022

If your ambition were to see greater numbers of trees in this world, where would you begin? Surely your passion, commitment, and investment would be towards seed beds and seedlings. Time would be given to ensure that saplings were supported while they were still supple and able to be straightened. It was with this image…

A Scaffold for Prayer for Lausanne 4

Sarah Plummer | 14 Oct 2022

Edited Transcript You may have heard about the next Lausanne congress happening in Seoul in 2024. Seoul 2024 is just one part of what we are calling the Lausanne 4 (L4) process. It’s a multi-year, polycentric process that includes global listening calls, regional gatherings, the Seoul 2024 congress, and the formation of thousands of action-orientated…

Our Cultural Identities and the Gospel

Steven M. Bryan | 04 Oct 2022

Differences in collective identity were intended by God to be a rich source of blessing. Instead they have become one of humanity’s greatest sources of conflict, suspicion, alienation, and violence. The animosity engendered by cultural difference has also cut deep chasms within the church. No less than others, Christians have struggled to understand and respond…