We have a very special opportunity for you. The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization is occurring in Cape Town, South Africa, October 17-24, 2010.

The congress occurs once every ten years, and the purpose is to “convene Christian leaders worldwide to confront critical issues of our time and help develop a deeper level of unity and collaboration in the ongoing task of bringing the whole gospel to the whole world.”

There are 4,500 participants invited to attend from 190 countries, along with 1,000 volunteers, staff, and media personnel. MaryKate Morse is representing the seminary at the Congress, Robin Baker is attending along with other Christian college/university presidents, Sarita Gallagher is attending from the Religion Department, and the Global Missional Leadership DMin students are devoting an entire week of coursework to exclusively engage the event at dmingml.com.

The congress is organized around 6 core themes:

1. Truth - marketplace ministry, media and technology, personal witness, and truth and pluralism
2. Reconciliation - environment, ethnicity, poverty & wealth, and resource stewardship
3. World Faiths – diaspora, globalization, unreached people groups, and world faiths
4. Priorities – forming leaders, orality, urban mission
5. Authenticity & Integrity – human future, prosperity gospel, men and women
6. Partnerships – children and youth, indigenous leaders, partnership, and Scripture in mission

For more information on the topics check: http://conversation.lausanne.org/en/topics

The conference is organized so that persons who are not attending in person may actively participate. Following is a lisitng of participation options:

• View the plenary sessions.
  • Schedule
  • Remember, Cape Town's time zon eis UTC/GMT +2 hours, while Portland, Oregon is UTC/GMT -7 hours (9 hours difference).
  • Video-casted sessions are only 15 minutes long.
  • Recordings made available 5 hours after the close of each session.
• Subscribe to podcasts of the recorded plenary sessions at http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/podcasts.html
• Read the "Advance Papers" that the presents have prepared and posted prior to their presentations.
• Engage in conversations on any topic with persons from around the world. Anyone can sign up to join the conversation.
• Some of the faculty will have conversation groups.

Social media engagement options:

• Visit the event's Facebook page.
• Follow the event on Twitter.
• Follow MaryKate Morse on Twitter as she comments on the congress. Use the hashtag #gfct10.
• Follow the GML DMin cohort at dmingml.com October 18-24 as the doctoral students engage the "Advance Papers" and conversations. Use the hashtags #dmingml and #capetown2010.

Tags:

• #capetown2010
• #ldmingml (October 18-24)
• #gfct10 (George Fox community via MaryKate)

These are critical conversations and a special opportunity to connect with people around the world about Christian concerns. Historically, Lausanne has been a major contributor to the unity of the church and to the importance of evangelism and social justice. Please join in the conversations. If you have any technical issues, contact Gloria Doherty. If you have Cape Town questions, contact MaryKate Morse. If you have seminary questions about Cape Town, contact Jean Miller.