Cape Town 2010 was historic in a number of ways including the fact that the majority of platform leaders and plenary speakers were from the developing world. I believe that this Congress will make many significant contributions to the cause of world evangelization and international missions for years to come.
Paul Cedar
President, Mission America
I was pleased to see so many women participating at the Lausanne conference and also that Sudan was given focus with the World Evangelical Alliance holding a press conference to announce a special day of prayer for the country and upcoming referendum vote in January.
Deborah Fikes
President, D.H. Fikes International
Overall, I have been greatly impacted by Lausanne 3. Of course the issues discussed were all very thought-provoking and informative. But what I walked away with most was much more personal. I feel God urging me to be the quality of leader whose walk with him will position me to hear from him and be willing to make the kind of sacrifices that may be required of me in the coming culture.
Paul Fleischmann
President, National Network of Youth Ministries
Bringing 4,200 Christian leaders from 198 countries to think about and strategize for world evangelization and Christian presence in our world was an astonishing and invigorating event. I am particularly thankful for the many conversations with brothers and sisters from the Two Thirds World and their rich insights for kingdom ministry. We must continue to listen to them.
Dennis P. Hollinger
President, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
My prayer before arriving at Cape Town 2010 was that the “Lord would open the eyes of my heart” and that I would see all that he wanted me to see while participating in the third great Lausanne Congress on World Evangelism. God not only opened my eyes, but he touched my heart in ways that I had not expected. I heard the voice of the suffering and persecuted Church around the world, I met tender brothers and sisters from around the globe who reminded me that I am a part of a heavenly family made up of incredible and beautiful diversity, I was convicted that the power of the gospel needed to express itself more authentically in my life, I worshiped with 4,500 plus Christian leaders from 198 nations of the world, I met incredible Christian leaders who truly inspired me to grow up in my faith in Jesus Christ, my heart broke for the poor as I visited the Cape Town Townships and saw the suffering, and most powerfully to me, through many tears, I fell more in love with Jesus, my wonderful and loving Savior! I realize that I sound like I just got home from summer Bible camp. Well, if I’m just experiencing the “mountain top high” of Cape Town 2010, I sure hope I don’t come down from the mountain anytime soon!
Gregory Johnson
President, Standing Together
When you put over 4,000 Christian leaders in the same place for a week and set the table with inspiring worship, anointed teaching and fresh reports of what God is doing around the world, you can be confident that strategic networking around fresh kingdom initiatives will be a given. Cape Town 2010 was all that and more. I personally came away with a renewed understanding of the beautiful diversity of the global church and a deepened resolve about the role of the North American church in servant partnership with the majority world to finish the work of the Great Commission.
Steve Moore
President & CEO, The Mission Exchange
Being at the Lausanne Conference placed our work at the NAE in a larger global perspective. Seeing what it takes to be faithful to the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world helps us know where we are not alone in our particular challenges, and where our challenges here in the United States are unique. We have much to be thankful for in that our work in this country can be fully in the light, and also a great responsibility to steward this gift with appropriate urgency and attentiveness.
Shirley Mullen
President, Houghton College
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