The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation opens in a few days time, in fact next Sunday, October 17th in Cape Town. Roughly 4,500 delegates from some 200 countries will be participating. Interestingly enough, this is the first major World Christian Congress where the majority world of blacks, browns and yellows will be the majority.
Some very intellectually capable and spiritually anointed speakers will be addressing the gathering and there will be a huge amount of interaction amongst everybody with all the plenary talks coming into the vast main auditorium of the International Cape Town Conference Centre to people who will be seated around hundreds of tables holding six to eight people each. Thus after each presentation there will be serious dialogue and interaction between delegates around their tables and findings will be listed and come forth from the participants to be shared with the whole Congress and/or inserted into the records afterwards for world circulation. There will be tremendous worship and many opportunities for extended prayer.
There will be quite a goodly AE representation there from around Africa and Esme Bowers, Chairperson of AE South Africa and Dick Miles, also on our SA Board, have been deeply and extensively involved in the Cape Town Planning/Steering Committee. They have done terrific jobs and we are proud of them. Also, Miles Giljam, recently inducted as the new AE SA Team Leader (more in a moment) is also a key component of the Congress Communication team which will be relaying its message by assorted means around the world. We are very thankful and I know are going to be much blessed into the future by Miles’s extensive gifts in the arena of Christian communications.
As mentioned in my last news cum prayer letter, the Congress will be extended to hundreds of thousands of people around the world via the over 600 Global Link satellites in 93 countries.
- Michael Cassidy
(AE Founder)
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