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I’m serious. I remember at Lausanne II in Manilla, they were practically everywhere. And it’s understandable. The USA does send the most missionaries. But these days, the Koreans are right behind us. And China has a huge commitment for more. Meanwhile, here, there are over 4000 delegates and fewer than 600 are from the USA. [...]

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You’re gonna want to use this in your missionary training course. I’m serious. It starts with Paul and ends in 1910. All in what seemed like 30 minutes. I’m no history buff… but this was awesome. I had History of Christianity in grad school. With all due respect to Dr. North, he should have shown [...]

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OK… granted… I’m not sure I’ll convince the elders of my local church to book these folks any time soon, but as for me, they’re in. Whether they’re dancing around an imaginary wall, symbolizing a conflict that has to be bridged, or just acting like Miriam after the Red Sea, these folks put a lot [...]

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I’m serious. Give this guy 8 minutes and he can leave you with more pregnant quotes than a maternity ward. Where does he come up with this stuff? Do these things wake him up in the middle of the night, or is he just a genius? His topic was “Making the Case for the Truth [...]

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Not Doug Birdsall. Not Billy Graham. (OK, granted — Billy Graham came via video. But he still didn’t get a standing ovation.) Not even Os Guinness. Although at least he deserved it. Nope — The standing ovation — a two-minute one — went to a little 18-year-old girl from North Korea. Her mother had died [...]

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He pointed out that, in his native Rwanda, 1  million Tutsi tribal people were killed in less than 100 days. It was the worst genocide of the 20th century. Yet here’s the shocker: This happened at a time when over 90% of the people were said to be Christians. Yikes. His talk analyzed how that [...]

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He’s from South Africa. She’s from Zambia. Both contracted AIDS (for differing reasons). Both, in their respective lands, have campaigned for a more compassionate and intentional response to a tragic and rampant disease. Both have discovered that they can praise God in the midst of their affliction. And thanks to modern medicine, both are living [...]

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Something from each session. What you *won’t* see, apparently, are any of the videos yet, in spite of the amped-up planning for “Global-Link” remote participation stations. Apparently, the congress is blowing Cape Town’s internet bandwidth out of the bay. Can that be? Can 5000 out-of-touch global pilgrims bring an entire city to a screeching internet [...]

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How will you plug in? Lausanne starts Sunday afternoon, Oct. 17. Here are some ways and means to capture all the sessions, in one format or another: GlobaLink locations (live & in person at 600 remote sites): http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/globalink.html Online Participation (just you and your web browser at home or office): http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/participate-online.html RSS of CT2010 news [...]

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If you were present in either the 1974 or the 1989 congresses, please take a moment, think back, and tell us your greatest memories of Lausanne. This will be a small group, I bet. 1989 was 20 years ago.  Brigada wasn’t even invented! Somehow, I managed to land a spot in Manila. Does anyone else [...]

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Just think … no jet-lag, no thatched roof, and, perhaps best of all, no Vuvuzelas! :-) (Google it) You get all of the Lausanne content without all the hassle. Just click to… http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/participate-online.html Register, and go! That’s it. And if you want interaction, Lausanne’s got it! Just go GlobalLink: http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/globalink.html There’s probably a site near [...]

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If you were to rank the major themes of Lausanne by importance, which theme would be top-ranked for you? Here they are: Children & Youth Diaspora Environment Ethnicity Forming Leaders Globalization Human Future Marketplace Ministry Media & Technology Orality Partnership Children & Youth Diaspora Environment Ethnicity Forming Leaders Globalization Human Future Marketplace Ministry Media & [...]

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One of the easiest ways for many will be via the Lausanne Facebook profile. Find it at… http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Lausanne-Movement/196600290042 [Note: This link will 'wrap.' If you have trouble copying it then reassembling it, just make your way to this link online, then click on the Facebook link there at Brigada.] At this FB link, you’ll find [...]

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