Month: October 2010

“Let Lausanne III Begin!” That was Doug Birdsall’s proclamation at the end of a Sunday Night opening extravaganza in Cape Town, South Africa. OK… it wasn’t the Olympics or World Cup. But at the same...

Imagine a hall filled with 4000 delegates and 800 stewards plus 100 or so guests. Now imagine them all sitting at tables, six per table. That’s the consistent look of the main plenary sessions. Why? I think one reason is...

Big super-sized workshops are “Multiplexes.” I keep expecting some kind of mongo psychological problem, but it just means “big panel discussion.” :-) Oh… and workshops aren’t workshops any...

I’m serious. I remember at Lausanne II in Manilla, they were practically everywhere. And it’s understandable. The USA does send the most missionaries. But these days, the Koreans are right behind us. And China has a...

You’re gonna want to use this in your missionary training course. I’m serious. It starts with Paul and ends in 1910. All in what seemed like 30 minutes. I’m no history buff… but this was awesome. I had...

OK… granted… I’m not sure I’ll convince the elders of my local church to book these folks any time soon, but as for me, they’re in. Whether they’re dancing around an imaginary wall,...

I’m serious. Give this guy 8 minutes and he can leave you with more pregnant quotes than a maternity ward. Where does he come up with this stuff? Do these things wake him up in the middle of the night, or is he just a...

Not Doug Birdsall. Not Billy Graham. (OK, granted — Billy Graham came via video. But he still didn’t get a standing ovation.) Not even Os Guinness. Although at least he deserved it. Nope — The standing ovation...

He pointed out that, in his native Rwanda, 1  million Tutsi tribal people were killed in less than 100 days. It was the worst genocide of the 20th century. Yet here’s the shocker: This happened at a time when over 90% of...