Find out how you can mobilize your members to do far more to serve both inside andoutside of your church. Churches have always struggled to process, filter, and communicate (to its members) the vast array of needs of ministries, families,Read more…
Relationships and Facilitators – A response to Mark Avery
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 the Lausanne Movement. They are designed to stimulate discussion fromRead more…
Kingdom Relationships of Trust – A response to Mark Avery
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 the Lausanne Movement. They are designed to stimulate discussion fromRead more…
An Education: A Costa Rican Community Learns What Helps and What Hurts in the Wake of Disaster
This story appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of Flourish Magazine.
Putting Others First
What do you get for the child who has absolutely everything? Well, that’s a question Richard Crane dealt with every year on his son’s birthday. So one year, he just decided to ask him.
Planning a Mission Trip…Across the Street
It is summer, and summer means mission trips for many church leaders. I have organized a number of mission trips to far flung places over the years. Some of these trips have been more successful than others in terms ofRead more…
Western Individualism Meets African Ubuntu: We Are Because He (Jesus) Is
The African Ubuntu worldview is reflected in the statement: “I am because We are.” One of the clearest expressions of this concept of interdependence is found in an African proverb that says: “All things are interdependent”. Another rendering of theRead more…
Urban Poor Development Strategies
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Raineer Chu as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Embracing God’s Global Urban Mission.” Responses to this paper through the LausanneRead more…
Partnering in the Body of Christ toward a New Global Equilibrium
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Patrick Fung as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Morning Plenary session on “Partnering in the Body of Christ toward a New Global Equilibrium.”Read more…
The Wealth of the Poor: Women and the Savings Movement in Africa
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Stephan Bauman, Wendy Wellman and Megan Laughlin as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Wealth, Poverty and Power: Effectively Responding throughRead more…