The Lausanne Global Conversation is on the World Wide Open Network
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By Sadiri Joy Tira | Blog
The Missional International Church Network (MICN, http://micn.org) defines an “international church” as a church that “primarily serve[s] people of various nationalities (expatriates) and church backgrounds living outside their passport (home)…
By Global Generosity Network | Article
The Generosity Resources List provides information on various kinds of generosity resources available to encourage Christian stewardship, generosity and giving. Please send Sas Conradie information on other resources. His e-mail…
By Generous Church | Article
Church leaders have to analyze the spiritual and financial health of their church on a regular basis. This article suggests tools to use statistics and subjective data in such an…
By Andy Williams | Article
Church leaders who focus on generous giving find that once-a-year pledges or capital campaigns don’t do enough to foster the lifestyle they want to see reproduced in their people. Without…
By Michael Reeves and Jennifer Tyler | Article
Stewardship programs rise or fall on their ability to do two things: first, provide church leaders easy-to-grasp yet comprehensive help in planning and implementing the program; and second, connect stewardship…
By Chip Ingram | Article
Chip’s Ingram book ’The Genius of Generosity’ (www.generouschurch.com/genius) is a powerful tool to help small groups engage in purposeful generosity and help them make the connection between money and discipleship. It…
By Generous Church | Video
Various videos to encourage generosity and giving in churches, including on changing the money conversation in churches.
By Sixteen: Fifteen | Video
This is the link to a facinating webinar that explores innovative ways to mobilise resources for mission. Worth watching. It also presents the Biblical foundation to giving to ministry amongst…
By Leadership Network | Video
This video reflects on how to separate fact from fiction in the area of giving and stewardship. It explains 4 key values that help to create a culture of generosity…
By E.G. ’Jay’ Link | Article
The bottom line of Jesus’ message is simple: Give it all up or go away. We are in a war and sometimes soldiers get killed in the battle. During times…
By Acton Institute | Video
Christian Stewardship is about more than the money we drop into the collection plate. Stewardship is everything we do after we say we believe. In this five-session video study, hosted by…
By Leadership Network | Article
Is your church looking for the chance to explore new ideas in encouraging generosity and discover a new path? Do you sometimes feel caught between ideas and action in the…
By Shiferaw Michael | Blog
To facilitate a truly global conversation, we ask Christian leaders from around the world to respond to the Global Conversation’s lead articles. These points of view do not necessarily represent…
By Graham McDonald | Sermon/Message
Throughout the history of mankind the natural progression of life has been a birth ultimately followed by death at some point in time, except for a few notable exceptions that…
By Global Children’s Forum | Research
We have compiled this Bibliography for pastors, leaders, Bible colleges and all who are interested in children. It provides a starting point for understanding the role of children in Scripture,…
By Global Children’s Forum | Video
Produced for the Lausanne Movement’s Cape Town Congress in 2010 for use as an advocacy tool, this video highlights the encouraging things that God is doing amongst children today and…
By Global Children’s Forum | Video
The Aim Lower viral video was produced by the Global Children’s Forum in order to help communicate and popularise some of the key conclusions of the 2004 Lausanne Occasional Paper…
By Jerry Brandt | Presentation
God has now raised up 40 KLU’s world wide training and equipping nationals for remote village evangelism and church planting. All graduates are committed to do remote village work.
By Sas Conradie | Article
A list of generosity focused initiatives in churches and Christian networks
By Barbara Shantz | Presentation
Explaining the importance of local Biblical based resource mobilisation
