Os Guinness speaks of globalization as the greatest challenge and great opportunity for the church since the apostles. He provides an overview of Evangelical responses and suggests three global tasks for the church. Download Options PC users: Right click aRead more…
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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
Where are the Sheep being Pastured??
Question: Why were Joseph’s brothers pasturing the flocks in Dothan when Jacob sent him to find them in Shechem? (Genesis 37:13-17) Answer: Because they were nomads, and nomads move to the best place to take care of their animals. ItRead more…
“beloved”
In America I fear that the word “love” has been so interchanged with “lust” that many do not understand the True Love and the infinite nature of His Love. How it doesn’t have anything to do with us necessarily, butRead more…
Statistics from Paul Eshleman on UUPG’s
Has anybody have written down all the statistics that Paul Eshleman gave to us this morning on the unreached unengaged people groups of the world? Would you be willing to share that in written form?
Global Mental Health and Unreached People Groups
Mental disorders are a vastly overlooked area in considering our responsibilities and opportunities as the church. How do mental disorders affect those in Unreached People Groups–and other vulnerable groups? Let’s consider this quote first for some of the current andRead more…
Managing Stress for Mission/Aid Workers—Self Assessment Tools
Here is a stress assessment tool (13 items) from the International Federation of the Red Cross, Managing Stress in the Field (2001) http://www.ifrc.org/cgi/pdf_pubshealth.pl?stress.pdf (Based on: “The Relief Worker Burnout Questionnaire” in Coping with Disaster (1999) by John H. Ehrenreich) ShortRead more…
Mixed Blessings: Healthy and Unhealthy Organisations in Global Mission
Virtue does not have to be so painful, if it is sensibly organized. Charles Handy, Understanding Voluntary Organizations How healthy is your church, mission, NGO, etc? Here are five brief quotes about organizational life to help explore this question. Remember:Read more…
Full Session: A Fresh Approach To Witness
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Full Session: Reconciliation
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Reconciliation – Drama ‘Our Boys On the Border’
This video is a dramatic presentation in two parts entitled ’Our Boys on the Border’. By Jerry Mofokeng. Performed by Jerry Mofokeng, Daniel Jones, Lerato Mofokeng, Jenny Vaughn Hall; directed by Alison Siewert; image by Jesse Oxford. (Request a Script)Read more…