Lord willing, in about a week and a half Steve will be on a plane to Cape Town to attend the Third Lausanne Conference on World Evangelization. Cape Town 2010. Held in collaboration with the World Evangelical Alliance, this conference brings together 4,000 leaders from more than 200 countries to confront the critical issues of our time—other world faiths, poverty, HIV/AIDS, persecution, among others—as they relate to the future of the Church and world evangelization. Steve still hopes to attend this conference, yet still requires the funds to purchase the round-trip airfare. Please join us in prayer for this financial release.
Chair Doug Birdsall says “Our theme for Cape Town 2010 will be “God in Christ, reconciling the world to himself” (2 Corinthians 5:19). I believe that Cape Town 2010 will help the Church of this generation to understand our times and become more effective in world evangelization.” In that spirit, Steve has been enlisted as a representative of frontier media missions to share how technology can be more effectively used to advance the gospel worldwide. With only 4000 leaders from 200 countries invited, Steve literally pinched himself when he got the last-minute invitation this summer. Expenses for this important conference event are estimated at $3500 and immediate sponsorship of this event is appreciated.
Cape Town 2010: "The Whole Church taking the Whole Gospel to the Whole World"
The story of Lausanne begins with Rev. Billy Graham. A powerful preacher, Graham quickly rose to prominence in the 1940’s and 50’s to become America’s foremost evangelist. As he began preaching internationally, Graham developed a passion to “unite all evangelicals in the common task of the total evangelization of the world.”
At the urging of evangelical leaders worldwide, the Lausanne Movement will hold the Third Congress on World Evangelisation in Cape Town, South Africa, 16-25 October 2010. The goal of Cape Town 2010 is to re-stimulate the spirit of Lausanne represented in the Lausanne Covenant: to promote unity, humbleness in service, and a call to action for global evangelization.
It is anticipated that over 4,000 leaders from 200 countries will attend onsite in Cape Town...The Participant Selection Team, consisting of leaders worldwide, has established criteria to ensure that the Congress will include men and women who represent a broad diversity of nationalities, ethnicities, ages, occupations and denominational affiliations.
In the few years leading up to this event, Lausanne Working Groups and Lausanne International Deputy Directors are engaging leadership teams to determine the relevant issues of the day pertaining to the church and worldwide evangelization and holistic ministry. (Learn more about the global conversations on the issues leading up to Cape Town 2010.) These issues will be discussed before and during and after Cape Town 2010 with the hope that new strategies and new collaborative efforts will be started so that many more men, women and young people will be able to hear and respond to the message of Christ presented in a relevant and culturally appropriate manner. http://www.lausanne.org/about.html
More information about the conference can be found at: http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-201
