About the Lausanne Global Conversation

The Lausanne Global Conversation was an online platform for connecting participants in the Lausanne Movement's Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa (Cape Town 2010) before, during and after the Congress.

The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library. Other content contributed by Global Conversation users is archived on this website. Read more »

How Dad’s Shape Kids

Someone said, “If you connect a boy to the right man, he seldom goes wrong.” And I believe that adage to be true. If a dad and a son, or a daughter, can develop some common interests together, the rebelliousRead more…

Jamaica Consultation Theme Paper: Why Should an Evangelist Plant a Tree?

This is a THEME PAPER ABSTRACT; the paper will be presented at the Jamaica Consultation on Creation Care and the Gospel in October, 2012.  Comments are welcomed!  View all abstracts. ————————————————————- Why should an evangelist plant a tree? For theRead more…

Our Language No Longer Matters, or So We Thought

Today’s post reveals one final, surprising conclusion of a recent experiment in the Gofa community of Ethiopia. In case you missed it, you can learn more about that experiment in Measuring the Spiritual Impact of Scripture Translation? Yes, It’s Possible!Read more…

Rusizi Mission 2012 Overview: God on the Move in Rwanda

This short video shows highlights from the Rusizi Mission in Rwanda, August 2012. At the invitation of the local church, International and Rwandan evangelists partnered together in proclaiming the Gospel in multiple settings around the district, with over 81,000 hearing,Read more…

Evangelistic Preaching in the 21st Century

“Who are the most effective evangelistic preachers you know?” When I have asked that question – and qualify it to mean pastors, not traveling evangelists – most pastors, lay people, and even preaching professors are stumped. They may come upRead more…

The Nature of Biblical Evangelism

It may seem crazy in a cross-cultural congress like this, that I should begin by quoting from those two peculiarly English characters of fiction, Alice in Wonderland and Humpty Dumpty!  For it is more than possible that some of youRead more…

Why Lausanne?

The Planning Committee has invited participants from every possible nation and nearly every evangelical denomination and para-church organization in the world.  Never before have so many representatives of so many eangelical Christian churches in som many nations and from soRead more…