In 50 years as missionaries, my wife and I have become familiar with immigration laws and offices in the countries where we served: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, the United States and now Spain. As recently as 2007, in Valencia, weRead 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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
The Indispensable Key to the Unfinished Task
Ethnê is the Greek word Jesus used for “nation”—a word which means tribe, ethnic group or people. Our world today has 6.4 billion individuals living in 234 geo-political nations but over 16,000 ethnê, or people groups, by country. Of thoseRead more…
Collaboration on Unreached People Research
There are several unreached people databases to choose from. Is it possible and feasible to collaborate together in this effort?
Missions as Pilgrimage
We go on mission trips to find ourselves — that truest part of “us” that we wouldn’t otherwise know or be able to tap into. We don’t go on mission trips to save people, to help the “less-fortunate,” or toRead more…
Getting to want
I had an idea for a book. It would describe the practical steps and stumbles of a church that developed partnerships with three churches from other cultures. They would be stories from my personal experience, so the churches would beRead more…
Language Choice in Theological Education: Africa
Experience of working within Western Kenya quickly reveals the basic unpopularity of MT (Mother Tongue) in theological education, as also in other fields. In a fundamental way in people’s minds formal education has become associated with English and the learningRead more…
How churches can use social media
A video by Problogger Darren Rowse on how churches can use social media to impact their communities. Some commentary by Andrew Jones. View video here. Darren warns about the danger of abusing the internet to build up our own ministriesRead more…
Prosperity Gospel: Blessed Charity or Corruption?
“We determined that we were going to do things for ourselves and not be dependent on outsiders to support us” shared a Pentecostal pastor (Bob) from rural Africa during a theological class recently. “But”, he added (onerously to me!) “ItRead more…
The Deception of Language and African Theology
When people say things and they do not mean what I think they ought to mean – judging by what they say, then it is easy to blame them. But I am not sure that is right. ‘They’ know whatRead more…
Growing indigenous children’s ministries
I was reading a book on Missions a while ago and was struck by the following quote from an Indian evangelist, Mr Murthi:“Do not bring us the Gospel as a potted plant. Bring us the seed of the Gospel andRead more…