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Consultation
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Responding to the unprecedented levels of suffering and brokenness in the world, the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization’s new Care and Counsel as Mission Interest Group will hold a 30 participant agenda-building consultation on January 5-9, 2009 in Mexico City. The purpose of the Care and Counsel as Mission Interest Group is At the Mexico City consultation, this challenge will be explored through a paradigm which looks at the global role of care and counsel as three related concentric circles: member care (care for cross-cultural Christian workers), care and counsel for the worldwide Christian community, and care and counsel for the whole world—a world full of people suffering from the consequences of poverty, conflict, natural disasters, the HIV epidemic, materialism, self-centeredness and spiritual alienation. The group has concluded that this last and biggest circle, with all of its challenges and complexity, is probably the least studied, developed, and networked area of care and counsel as mission and, therefore, will be a major focus of the consultation.
The Mexico City consultation is led by an international steering committee with members from nine countries. Goals for the consultation include assessing global care and counsel needs, identifying biblically congruent and culturally appropriate responses, developing a long term plan leading up to and beyond the 2010 Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization to be held in Cape Town, and communicating its plans and findings broadly with the hope of challenging and equipping the global Church toward a more comprehensive and strategic response to human need. [Click here to dowload the rest of the briefing.] |
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