ARTICLES MISC.

WORLD CHRISTIAN TRENDS, UPDATE 2007 by Todd Johnson
(Adapted from a plenary briefing given at the Lausanne Bi-Annual International Leadership meeting in Budapest, Hungary 18-22 June 2007)
Considering trends both inside global Christianity and trends outside global Christianity.

MISSION WORDS AND IMAGES: IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE
A consultation of prominent missions leaders decides that publishing warfare terminology in a missions context can be damaging to our efforts to reach the nations

MISSIONS TO THE 10/40 WINDOW AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH by Chacko Thomas

ISSUES AND TRENDS THAT MAY AFFECT MISSIONS IN THE COMING YEARS by Pate Cate, President of Christar

THE CHANGING FACE OF MISSIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH AVERY WILLIS by Rick Warren
Avery Willis recently retired after 10 years as Senior Vice President for Overseas Operations at the International Mission Board, where he played a major role in restructuring the organization to reach unreached people groups around the world.

RESEARCH GIVES DETAILED PICTURE OF VOLUNTEER MISSIONS by James Dotson
Although this article reports on Southern Baptist findings, we thought the information could be helpful to you and your church, regardless of denominational affiliation.

AD 2001 REALITY CHECK: 50 new facts and figures about trends and issues concerning empirical global Christianity today. (Note: A small percentage of these facts are without enough explanation or supporting details to be sure of what they are trying to communicate)

MISSIONS GIVING NOT KEEPING UP WITH CHURCH OFFERING INCREASES by Mark Wingfield
This is a trend found not only among Baptists ... "Churches seem to be turning inward. They seem to be emphasizing the comfort and happiness of members over the transformation of those members."

STRATEGY, TRENDS & STATISTICS: A monthly report from the Lausanne Researchers' Network
Note: The following articles are linked to past editions of Lausanne World Pulse
• The Global Status of Evangelical Christianity: A Model for Identifying Priority People Groups by Scott Holste and Jim Haney
• Insider Movements: An New Phrase for An Old Idea by Greg Parsons
• Roman Catholics in Mission: An Update by Mario Cappello
• World Evangelization Analysis – Strategy Working Group by Paul Eshleman
• World Christian Trends 2005 by Todd Johnson
• Christianity in Global Context by Todd Johnson

WHERE WE ARE: a reflection on the current status of reaching the unreached by Justin Long (2006)
Where are we in terms of reaching the unreached people of this world? In order to assess the status of this movement, we need to understand key changes taking place.

THE NEXT CHRISTIANITY by Philip Jenkins (The Atlantic Monthly)
We stand at a historical turning point, the author argues—one that is as epochal for the Christian world as the original Reformation. Around the globe Christianity is growing and mutating in ways that observers in the West tend not to see. Tumultuous conflicts within Christianity will leave a mark deeper than Islam's on the century ahead.

LIBERATING WORD: THE POWER OF THE BIBLE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
by Philip Jenkins (from Wycliffe Missiological Articles )
... today, as the centre of gravity of the Christian world moves ever southward, the conservative traditions prevailing in the global South matter ever more. To adapt a phrase from missions scholar Lamin Sanneh: Whose reading—whose Christianity—is normal now? And whose will be in 50 years? (Click here for Jenkins' book, The New Faces of Christianity -- Click here for David Mays' Booknotes)

TEN EMERGING TRENDS IN SHORT-TERM MISSIONS by Seth Barnes (Mission Frontiers, January 2000)
Note: See next article for more recent insights from Seth
What a difference a few years makes. In 1970 you could count on one hand the number of youth groups doing short-term missions. Now it has become a standard feature for thousands of youth groups across the country. Many youth leaders affirm that their summer missions projects have greater impact than any other single event they schedule. (Read more)

THE FUTURE OF SHORT-TERM MISSIONS by Seth Barnes (World Pulse, March 2006)
A number of years ago, I noticed certain trends emerging in short-term missions. Many are still in effect, but ten stand out. Each of these ten are undergirded by five factors that drive the pace and nature of the changes afoot in the market. (Read more)