The Fourth Lausanne Congress is underway in Seoul and released “The Seoul Statement” this week. The congress marks it origin in 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland when John Stott and Billy Graham gathered global evangelical leaders for an “international congress on world evangelization.” Similar meetings occurred in Manila (1989) and Cape […]
Hispanics
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Lausanne Movement. Evangelicals throughout the world are planning to gather for the fourth congress in Seoul. Earlier today I participated in the movement’s release of the “State of the Great Commission Report.” This precursor to September’s gathering is to provide an account […]
Lausanne State of the Great Commission Report
National Geographic Documentary Films is scheduled to release The Mission next week in the US and Canada. This film is about John Chau who was killed in 2018 when attempting to share the gospel with a North Sentinel Island people group. His death made international headlines. Of course, the world […]
National Geo. “The Mission” – Death of John Chau
Yesterday was International Migrants Day. I shared several important stats particularly related to the United States. In October, I had the honor of speaking to the gracious saints of Providence Baptist Church in Huntsville, Alabama. They wanted me to discuss migration and mission during their annual theology conference. We had […]
Resources for You: Reaching the Strangers Next Door
December 18 marks the annual International Migrants Day. We live during a time that has been called the age of migration. While people on the move is as old as the exodus from the Garden, today’s numbers have brought the world into uncharted waters. 281 million people reside outside their […]
International Migrants Day
Well, the day has arrived. Earlier this month, I shared I would be hitting the pause button here at the blog. Over the past 12 years I have done this before, but never in an official way, for such a lengthy period of time, and to the extent as planned. […]