Business as Mission: What Now and What’s Next?

Mats Tunehag asks: How can we fight human trafficking and provide restoration for its victims? How can we scale up the BAM movement? How can we do BAM and have a positive impact in the Arab World and Asia?

Changing to be strategic…

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…

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…

A Fresh Call For US Missionaries

Ida Scudder was the granddaughter of the first medical missionary sent by the American church. John Scudder, her grandfather, went to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1819, and later to India, as a missionary doctor. Ida was born in 1870Read more…

From church planting success to genocide

In just 100 years, this country went from ‘unreached’ to ‘churched’, with approximately 90 percent of the population attending church as members.  It is the ultimate success story in the history of Christian mission – if the success criteria areRead more…

Integrity and Partnership in Mission

The idea of “integrity” is something that is complete. It is whole, without missing parts, full, perfect, with appropriate weight and measure. When referring to a person, it’s about the pure, proven, without cracks.   When we speak of mission,Read more…

Priorities – Vignettes of Youth Around the World

These vignettes show that children have always been a part of Gods plan. The Church has the opportunity and the responsibility to make an impact on the next generation. Karsten Huettmann describes youth as a generation at risk, but alsoRead more…