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East Asia
East Asia has a population of 1.7 billion people, of which only 9% are Christians. Atheistic communism, Buddhism, and traditional Confucius culture and religions are the dominant worldviews, along with the rise of influences such as globalisation,...
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a very vibrant, colourful, and dynamic place. It is a distinct and fascinating sub-region of the Americas. And everywhere, from Belize to the Bahamas, from Jamaica to the Guyanas, and all the French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, and...
Lausanne Persecuted Church Initiative
The Lausanne Persecuted Church Initiative was an outcome of the Fourth Lausanne Congress in 2024 that spotlighted the persecuted church in sharing their suffering (1 Corinthians 12:26), upholding the global witness of Christ, entering into mutual...
Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative
The Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative was established after the Third Lausanne Congress in 2010 as a movement of Orthodox and evangelical Christians who wish to respect each other’s beliefs, learn from one another, and support each other in obedience...
Workplace Ministry
Where 99 percent of the global church engages the world with the gospel. Historically, the workplace has been key to the Great Commission. In today’s culture, God’s people need to establish an effective presence in their workplace, whether it is...
Tentmaking
Serving God and others through your profession wherever you go. Throughout history, God has used people in regular jobs and businesses to advance his kingdom and fulfil his purposes. The same happens today. The major Christian mission force in the...
Scripture Access and Engagement
The complete Bible is only available in 500 of the world's 7,000 languages. The Word of God is given to us so we can know him. For many in this world, they do not have the Word and live in Bible poverty. Despite centuries of missions activity,...
Research and Strategic Information
Providing a reliable view of the global Church and its worldwide mission. What is the role of research in the context of church and mission? It is to pursue an understanding of what God is doing in the world so that we might celebrate and rejoice in...
Proclamation Evangelism
Engaging the spiritual gift and calling of the evangelist in partnership with the church. We are still in the early stages of building a global network, but plan to connect a network of people committed to proclamation evangelism, to collaborate on...
Orality
Eighty percent of the world’s population are oral communicators, people from all walks of life and all levels of education who primarily use spoken rather than written words to receive, process, remember, and pass on information. While some rely...
Ministry Fundraising
Equipping Christian leaders and fundraisers to grow generous givers to God’s mission globally. Churches and ministries need funds to reach people with the gospel. But often they have not received any training on biblical principles of stewardship...
Ministry Collaboration
Connecting and equipping the global Body of Christ to accomplish God’s mission together. In our increasingly interconnected world, God is uniting the church like never before in history to accelerate the advance of the gospel to all peoples. God...
Media Engagement
How is the church influencing the greatest influence in the world? The Lausanne Media Engagement Network aims towards equipping the global church to engage with media. We address three facets of media engagement:Media Awareness: Carefully...
Least Reached Peoples
Making Disciples among Unreached and Unengaged People Groups Pioneer evangelism and church planting among unreached peoples is at the heart of the Lausanne Movement. Almost 50 years ago, at the 1974 Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, Dr....
Leadership Develoopment
Developing leaders who will spearhead spiritual and societal transformation in the world. Leadership development is an important aspect of personal and societal transformation. It engages people in changing systems, structures, and people....
Jewish Evangelism
Sharing the gospel with Jewish people was the beginning of world evangelism. Today less than two percent of the world Jewry believe Jesus to be Israel’s Messiah. Jewish evangelism is an essential part of world evangelism. If Jesus is not the...
International Student Ministry
What’s the most strategic way to reach tomorrow’s world changers? The Worldwide International Student Ministry Network (WIN) is a Lausanne issue network that seeks to enhance the development of the ISM ‘movement’ globally. Our vision is that...
Integrity and Anti-Corruption
Do people of integrity still exist? The call to personal integrity is about bringing the whole of life into alignment with the person, the teaching, and the example of Jesus Christ. Jesus is Lord of all. There is no sector of society, no corner of...
Integral Mission
There is no biblical dichotomy between evangelistic and social responsibility. Integral mission is defined as ‘the task of bringing the whole of life under the lordship of Jesus Christ’ and includes the affirmation that there is no biblical...
Hinduism
There are unprecedented mass movements of new forms of Hinduism; do we have new ways of engaging? Globally, Hinduism is not a single cultural unit as subsumed by some scholars under the term ‘religion’, but is a socio-cultural phenomenon. For...
Health
The church's strategic role in whole-person health and healing for all nations. One of the greatest challenges facing the church is to address the need of people everywhere to live lives of health and wholeness (shalom). This was at the very heart...
Freedom and Justice
The world’s marginalized and oppressed call out to the global church of Christ. The Freedom and Justice Issue Network wishes to be part of the mission of Jesus and seeks to connect organizations and individuals enthusiastic about God’s heart for...
Diasporas
The mission of God for people on the move. People are migrating as never before; either voluntarily in pursuit of economic and educational opportunities, or involuntarily due to forced escape from famine, wars, ethnic cleansing, or religious...
Disability Concerns
Disability ministry is not disability ministry unless the disabled are ministering. One in seven people globally have a disability. They are the world’s largest minority group. Among them are some of the poorest, least educated, least employed,...
Creation Care
Caring for God’s creation was our first task, and has become our greatest challenge. Stewardship of God’s creation (creation care) is a clear biblical command and an integral part of what it means to follow Jesus as Lord. But that’s not all:...
Cities
The world is urbanizing rapidly. What if every city had a Lausanne-style network? A local expression of a global movement—where pastors, practitioners, and influencers from every sector come together, not just to gather, but to collaborate. Not...
Children and Family
If we don’t reach children, we lose half of the world—and all of the world’s future. Of the more than 2 billion children in the world, most are unreached. There is great need for intentional focus on long-term discipleship to help children...
Church Planting
The most effective evangelistic methodology under heaven. Central to the mission of God is the planting of the church. ‘I will build my church and all the powers of hell will not conquer it’ (Matt 16:18 NLT). God has entrusted to his people, the...
Children-at-Risk
To, for, and with children-at-risk. Hundreds of millions of children in every region of the world face significant risks, but each one is much more than a victim or a tragic label. Each child is a multi-faceted human being, created in God’s image,...
Business as Mission (BAM)
Business for God’s glory, the gospel, and the common good. In the global marketplace today, we have a huge opportunity to leverage this God-given power of business to address some of the world’s most pressing spiritual, social, environmental,...