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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »

Rwanda: The Death and Resurrection of a Nation

Unfortunately Africa is often associated with words with negative connotations: corruption, aids, donor fatigue, genocide, bad governance, colonialism, malaria, slavery, famine, poverty, civil wars, blood diamonds, et cetera. A trillion dollar of aid has not raised the continent out ofRead more…

Workplace Evangelism: Part 3

  Conflict: Facing It & Comforting Co-Workers        In the workplace, life happens and is lived out. Christians need to be Biblically prepared to address and minister to everyone as the issues of life bloom before us andRead more…

Perspective on Mission from Egypt

I thought I’d share this link to some of what a Coptic bishop said to the African Christian Leaders’ Gathering of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) in London a few years back.  “…holistic model of ministry was to beRead more…

Perspective on Mission from Egypt

I thought I’d share this link to some of what a Coptic bishop said to the African Christian Leaders’ Gathering of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) in London a few years back.  “…holistic model of ministry was to beRead more…

Adoniram Judson … Endurance Personified

The most striking aspect of the Judson-Burma story is suffering. From start to finish, his biography describes hardship. He, his family, and his co-workers lived lives of affliction almost unparalleled in modern mission history.

More Diaspora Readings

Recently, I had coffee with the former President of the American Society of Missiology, Dr. Miriam Adeney, at Starbucks in City Centre, Doha (Qatar). Yes we were in Qatar and in Doha. There are several Starbucks outlets there; most ofRead more…

Adoniram Judson: Endurance Personified

The most striking aspect of the Judson-Burma story is suffering. From start to finish, his biography describes hardship. He, his family, and his co-workers lived lives of affliction almost unparalleled in modern mission history.