Missional-minded church leaders will meet in Cape Town at the Lausanne World Congress tomorrow, Oct 16, the third such gathering of the Lausanne Movement.
The organisation, titled ‘Lausanne’ because the first Congress met there in 1974, aims to unite Christian leaders in world evangelisation. The prime movers for the first congress were American evangelist Billy Graham, Australian Anglican bishop Jack Dain and English evangelical theologian Revd Dr John Stott. This year’s meeting marks the 100th anniversary of the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh. Then, just 17 of the 1,200 attendees were non-Westerners. The 4,000 leaders meeting this year are drawn from over 200 countries. The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is behind much of the programme, but the Congress includes participants from across the global Church spectrum.
Source: Church Times (15/10)
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