Missiologist Jim Memory analyses the main trends in church and society. He will be one of the speakers at this week’s Lausanne Europe 20/21 gathering.

A thousand church and mission leaders from some forty countries will meet next week to think and pray together and seek a way forward for mission in Europe. 

Church trends in the 21st century.

We need others from different backgrounds to help us think outside our own box. We need to hear what God is doing in other parts of Europe.

Inside the collaborative world of Jewish evangelism. An article by Aaron Lewin.

A critique of Western Christian leadeship in light of global trends. An article by Mary Ho.

Over 100 women have already registered in a newly created platform for female Christian speakers in German-speaking countries. Theologian Evi Rodemann explains her vision for mentoring.

The potential of media and local fellowships.

There could be “a significant risk of LE20/21 becoming a superspreader event”, the organisation said. The conference will be held online 17-21 November.

The LGBTQ movement has provided us with a new set of ideologies that claim to strike a wedge between our body and our soul.

Three ways to bridge the leadership gap. An article by Nana Yaw Offei Awuku and Ole-Magnus Olafsrud.

God designed partnership between male and female from the beginning. An article by Chad and Leslie Neal Segraves.

Where is mIssion a decade after the centenary of  Edinburgh 1910?

Roles,strategies and reflections for outsiders in local contexts. An article by Kirst Rievan.

Activating and harnessing migrant flows for incarnational mission. An article by Harvey Thiessen and Alena Popova.

The Global Youth Culture Study found out about their struggles, beliefs, relationships, connectedness and who and what influences them.

Six common themes for a Trinitarian approach to leading missions. An article by Joseph W. Handley.

On 17th June, the Christian apologist and author will be interviewed in an online event as part of the Lausanne Europe agenda to prepare the November gathering in Poland.

Hers is a story of sheltering Jews, of imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps, a surprise release and of her worldwide mission to spread a message of forgiveness.

Global reflections on a universal sin (Part 1/2). An article by Jennifer Javed Khan, Rebecca Yin Foo, Paul Lewis and Susan Ann Samuel.

Journeying alongside local churches in the Philippines. An article by Jojie Wong.

John Stott loved and commended to the global church the mission of bringing Christ to the world.

Samuel Escobar, a close co-worker and friend of the Ecuadorian theologian, speaks about his legacy. “I admired that together with his seriousness at work he had a great sense of humour”.

Only by reading today with the eyes of faith the new challenges facing humanity can we better understand the renewed obedience to the Word and the creativity that the Lord demands now. In that sense, René Padilla was a theologian who responded to his time.

Through the concept of “integral mission”, he helped global evangelicals balance evangelism and social action. The pastor was one of the most influential Latin American evangelical leaders in the Lausanne Movement and IFES.