What she learned about the orphanage was disturbing
What she learned working in one of the orphanages broke our hearts and permanently changed how we care for children in our mission work.
The Christian Post
Skip to main contentWhat she learned working in one of the orphanages broke our hearts and permanently changed how we care for children in our mission work.
Recognizing the shift away from the primarily Western-led “Christendom” era of missions, COALA, which stands for Christ over Asia, Africa and Latin America, seeks to introduce new paradigms for today’s “polycentric” missions era: from everywhere to everywhere.
If you think Christianity today is a religion that is mostly American or maybe European, you have been misled.
Michael Oh, global executive director of the Lausanne Movement, called on the 5,000 Christians gathered from over 200 countries at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization believers this week to humble themselves and work together to spread the Gospel worldwide effectively, urging them to repent of four things.
“Will there be room for new voices, will there be space for surprise?” asked Valdir Steuernagel in a speech he gave at a meeting of Latin American leaders in the lead up to Lausanne’s Fourth Global Congress (Lausanne 4) in Seoul, South Korea, that begins Sunday.
“Everything that is not growing will slowly decay,” says Bambang Budijanto, general secretary of the Asia Evangelical Alliance (AEA), as he highlights the challenges facing the Church in Asia today.
Discipleship should be grounded in local cultural understanding rather than abstract reasoning.