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Grant and Janice McClung in Moscow

McClungs Selected for World Evangelization Congress

DALLAS, Texas—-Church

of God missions veterans Grant and Janice McClung have been selected as participants for Cape Town 2010, the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangeliza- tion, set for October 16-25 in Cape Town, South Africa. The international forum on world evangelization will involve 4,000 missions leaders from 200 coun- tries. Thousands more from around the world will be con- nected through GlobaLink, the remote-access program for the conference, as well as multiple on-site and cyber “global con- versations” before, during, and after the international gathering. The Cape Town meeting, nick- named “Lausanne III,” will be a highly interactive 10-day forum. It is the third in a series of major

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congresses dating to the initial conclave called together by evangelist Billy Graham and world missions leaders in 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The original Lausanne meet- ing in 1974 was a watershed congress that produced an internationally acclaimed theo- logical/strategic evangelism document, “The Lausanne Covenant,” and set in motion a global collaboration in missions efforts called “The Lausanne Movement for World Evangeli- zation” (see www.lausanne.org). A follow-up congress, “Lausanne II,” was convened in Manila, Philippines, in 1989.

As a preparation for Lau- sanne III, the McClungs were invited to join some 300 men and women from 175 organiza-

tions—-local churches, denomi- nations, missions agencies, schools, businesses, and founda- tions—at the Highland Park Pres- byterian Church in Dallas, Texas, on January 25-27. “The Dallas consultation was a foretaste of the fellowship, partnership, and international missions network- ing we can expect in Cape Town in October,” said Grant McClung. At the Dallas meet- ing, he was named to the U.S. Lausanne Advisory Committee, a broadly representative group of some 40 American leaders who will be responsible to grapple with the evangelistic challenges in the United States and work with various interdenominational coalitions in casting the vision for engaging the various subcultures and unreached groups in the

United States with the gospel over the coming decade. “The international participant selection process (now complet- ed) has reflected the age, gender, ethnic, and denominational diver- sity with intentionality,” McClung noted, “and it is expected that at Cape Town some one-third of the participants from around the world will be women, and one-half will be younger leaders in their 20s and 30s. This will be the future of world evangelization.” Grant McClung is president of Missions Resource Group and an elected member of the Church of God Interna- tional Executive Council. Janice McClung, an accomplished com- poser of missions music, trains churches and leaders in praying for missionaries and nations. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33