Evi Rodemann, L4 Congress Events Coordinator, shares facts and stats about the large gathering that brought together a cross-section of the world’s evangelical churches in September 2024.
Participants of the L4 Congress in Incheon-Seoul wearing traditional costumes of their countries of origin. / Photo: [link]Lausanne Movement[/link].
Here are some interesting facts from the Fourth Lausanne Congress.
- Congress Onsite Participants: 5,394 from 200 countries and territories.
- Virtual Experiencia (VX) participants: around 2,000 people from over 100 countries.
- In the Virtual Lounge on spatial.io of the L4 congress, participants could meet each other with avatars. The Brazilians had the most fun!
- Congress team and volunteers: 494 people.
[photo_footer] Evi Rodemann, in the backstage of the auditorium where the Fourth Lausanne Congress was celebrated. / Photo: Lausanne Movement. [/photo_footer] - Korean team: more than 1,600 people.
- Korean prayer warriors during the congress in a nearby church: 6,888 people.
- Livestreams of the sessions: over 30,000 unique viewers from 161 countries.
[photo_footer] The mc's of one of the plenary sessions, taking the stage. / Photo: Lausanne Movement. [/photo_footer] - Emails: More than 500 emails sent out in 7 languages. Over the last 18 months, 750,000 emails in total.
- Digital Discovery Centre (DDC) exhibitors onsite at the Aongdo Convensia convention centre: 40 organizations.
- Recordings of Lausanne 4 sessions: around 2,500 minutes. About 200 shoots.
- Views on Instagram: 1.5M post views, with an increase of 12,000 users.
[photo_footer] A team of live translation at the L4 Congress. / Photo: Lausanne Movement. [/photo_footer] - The document “State of Great Commission Report”: 6,000 downloads.
- Global collaboration teams around the congress: over 400.
- Donations given towards the organisation of the next Younger Leaders Gathering 2026, in Rio (Brazil): $48,313 from 327 people, with an additional offering of $80,000.
- Official L4 whatsapp groups: 113.
- Age of the youngest participants of the Congress: 18. Age of the oldest: 89.
[photo_footer]Korean volunteers welcome participants the first day of the Fourth Lausanne Congress, in Incheon-Seoul. / Photo: Lausanne Movement. [/photo_footer]
- Prayers written on the ‘Wall of the Unreached’: over 900.
- Prayer left at the foot of the Cross in the Prayer Station: over 200
- Lost and found items: 251.
- Naps taken at the relexation area of the convention centre: over 350.
- Stories toled at the Storytelling Booth: more than 500.
- Squares added to the collaborative mural: over 64.
- Stickers given out at the Movement Desk: Over 17,700.
- Volunteers helping with ap approximately 1,000 pieces of luggage on the last day, Saturday 28 September: over 30.
- Wheelchairs and walking sticks borrowed: over 95 times (19 chairs total).
[photo_footer] A participant during a pause of the congress's schedule. / Photo: Lausanne Movement. [/photo_footer]
- Over the course of the Congress, we all have used 1,692 kWh to charge our mobile devices, enough to power about 56 homes for an entire day.
- The average steps walked (by volunteers but probably similar for participants) from Monday-Friday was a combined 96,694 which equals roughly 46 miles, or the distance if we walked from Incheon to Seoul and back to Incheon.
What a historical life-changing Congress (#L4Seoul) this has been. The next few months will tell what the impact on global missions will be.
Evi Rodemann, Congress Event Director of the Fourth Lausanne Congress in Incheon-Seoul, 22-28 September 2024.
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