Research resources from and for missional Christian leaders
Lausanne Global Analysis
Lausanne Global Analysis seeks to deliver strategic and credible information and insight from an international network of evangelical analysts to equip influencers of global mission
March 2019 Issue 8:2 Overview
The Atrocities of the Islamic State ‘Some of the most glaring recent examples of religious persecution are the mass atrocities perpetrated by Islamic State (Daesh)’, writes Ewelina Ochab (legal researcher and human rights advocate). Daesh became...
March 2020 Issue 9:2 Overview
‘Servant leadership as modelled by Jesus Servant-leadership is a paradox, an oxymoron. It is the controversial fusion of opposites—a servant and a leader—that produces the leader par excellence’, writes Mary Ho (International Executive...
March 2021 Issue 10:2 Overview
Christianity is truly global. More significantly, ‘the shift of the centre of gravity of the church from the North into the South is not merely demographic. It is also reflected in the vitality and growing influence of non-western Christianity.’...
March 2022 Issue 11:2 Overview
Mission organisations and churches, aiming to be good stewards of their limited resources, regularly review their plans. What and how should they prioritise in their annual budgets? Programmes or people; quantity or quality; strategy or creativity...
March 2023 Issue 12:2 Overview
‘The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighbourhood… Generous inside and out, true from start to finish’ (John 1:14, The Message). Our Lord came to us to humbly serve us and generously bless us. So ‘we must take the...
March 2024 Issue 13:2 Overview
The focus of this LGA issue is on member care, defined by the Global Member Care Network as ‘the ongoing preparation, equipping, and empowering of mission personnel for effective and sustainable life, ministry, and work.’ In ‘Self-Care: An...
March 2025 Issue Overview
Writing as one of the delegates at the Congress in ‘Whose Collaboration? Whose Priorities? A Missiological Response to the Seoul Statement’, Kang San Tan, General Director of BMS World Mission, engages with ‘a few selected themes of the Seoul...
May 2014 Issue 3:3 Overview
Food Security and Its Role in Transformational Development ‘Food security is generally not seen readily as either an issue that determines response to the gospel or one that determines the health of a community’, writes Ravi Jayakaran (Vice...
May 2015 Issue 4:3 Overview
In this issue there are two broad themes: mission in East Asia and new approaches to research and planning for mission (timely in view of the Lausanne Researchers’ International Network meeting taking place later this month, 23-28 May, in Kuala...
May 2016 Issue 5:3 Overview
The Spread of Anti-conversion Laws from India ‘In spite of a rich tradition and legal framework supportive of freedom of conscience and the right to practise, profess, and propagate the religion of one’s choice, religious minorities in India...
May 2017 Issue 6:3 Overview
Is God Reviving Europe through Refugees? ‘The arrival of millions of migrants in Europe is shaking the foundations of secular post-Christian Western civilization’, writes Sam George (Lausanne Catalyst for Diasporas). The epicenter of the refugee...
May 2018 Issue 7:3 Overview
Loving Our Muslim Neighbour ‘The issue of Muslim immigration shows no sign of going away anytime soon in either Europe or North America’, writes Matthew Kaemingk (assistant professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary)....
May 2019 Issue 8:3 Overview
The Rise of Hindu Fundamentalism ‘There has been increasing concern around the world for some years about the rise of Hindu fundamentalism or Hindutva’, writes the author (name withheld), who has taught at Indian and foreign universities. The...
May 2020 Issue 9:3 Overview
The Lausanne Covenant states, ‘We rejoice that a new missionary era has dawned. The dominant role of western missions is fast disappearing. God is raising up from the younger churches a great new resource for world evangelization, and is thus...
May 2021 Issue 10:3 Overview
Global migration’s impact on mission strategy has become a growing focus in global mission. ‘Empowering believers already on the move to be frontline kingdom workers is essential in influencing nations for the gospel’, write Harvey Thiessen,...
May 2022 Issue 11:3 Overview
According to the World Watch List 2022 of Open Doors, listing the top fifty countries where it is most difficult to follow Jesus, eight countries from Africa and Asia combined are in the top ten! In this issue, we look at the oppression of...
May 2023 Issue 12:3 Overview
The Lausanne Movement is committed to energising the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole world. In this issue, we have three articles on this theme. They are based on the presentations by the authors at Gordon-Conwell Theological...
May 2024 Issue 13:3 Overview
‘Missional’ has become a very common term used within mission circles, such as missional church, missional community, missional living, missional mindset/thinking/perspective, missional strategy, and missional engagement. What does ‘being...
November 2012 Issue 1:1 Overview
Publisher's MemoWhere Next for the Arab Spring?In the last 22 months long-established regimes have been toppled in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, while the Yemeni president has left office under a transition deal and the Syrian regime is embroiled in a...
November 2013 Issue 2:5 Overview
A Landmark Encounter The Asian Church Leaders Forum (ACLF) held in Seoul in June 2013 seemed at first like any other international conference, writes Ezra Jin. “However, for the representatives of the house churches in China, it was a conference...
November 2014 Issue 3:6 Overview
Responding to the Challenge of Boko Haram ‘Boko Haram’s ideology has four main features’, writes John Azumah (Lausanne Senior Associate for Islam and Associate Professor of World Christianity and Islam at Columbia Theological Seminary,...
November 2015 Issue 4:6 Overview
In this issue we focus in three of our articles on the impact and legacy—five years on—of the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation held in Cape Town in 2010. Lausanne’s Renewed Engagement in Global Mission ‘During our 40th...
November 2016 Issue 5:6 Overview
This issue of LGA has as its theme Leadership, inspired by the fact that the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering (YLG2016) took place in Jakarta in August. Six Leadership Lessons from YLG2016 ‘It usually takes decades to see the fruit from this...
November 2017 Issue 6:6 Overview
In this issue we mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. A Call to Christian Unity for the Sake of the Great Commission ‘What exactly . . . might it mean for Protestants, and especially evangelical Protestants, to recognize the...
November 2018 Issue 7:6 Overview
Turning the Church’s Attention to Mental Health ‘The global church is beginning to recognise mental health problems . . . as a major ministry priority’, write Gladys Mwiti (Founder and CEO of Oasis Africa Center for Transformational Psychology...
November 2019 Issue 8:6 Overview
The Problem of False Prophets in Africa ‘Ever since the missionary era, Christianity has had a positive impact on the socio-cultural arena throughout Africa’, writes Moses Owojaiye (CEO of the Centre for Biblical Christianity in Africa). As a...
November 2020 Issue 9:6 Overview
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many socioeconomic disparities between resource-rich and resource-poor areas across the world. In their article, ‘Kingdom Opportunities for Bridging COVID-19 Disparities’, three medical professionals, Stephen...
November 2021 Issue 10:6 Overview
There is an urgent need in the global church to equip pastors, missionaries, lay leaders, and in fact all Christians who are committed to making disciples for Christ of all nations. How could this need be met adequately and effectively? Not everyone...
November 2022 Issue 11:6 Overview
‘Lausanne Global Analysis (LGA) was launched ten years ago, following the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization: Cape Town 2010,’ recalls Doug Birdsall, who was leading the Lausanne Movement at that time. ‘Its purpose was to fortify...
November 2023 Issue 12:6 Overview
In this issue we focus on global leadership development—younger leaders, international student leaders, women leaders from the Majority World, and leaders committed to care for God’s creation. There is an urgency to develop younger leaders,...