GCOWE '95 - a Global Consultation on World Evangelization with more than 3300 delegates from 186 countries committing to and planning to meet the goal of "A Church for Every People, and the Gospel for Every Person by the year 2000."
GCOWE '97 - consisting of ten separate consultations meeting in South Africa beginning with the Mission Executives Consultation with 500 mission agency leaders & the African National Inititaives Consulation with launched MANI(The Movement for African National Initiatives.
MANI is a network of networks focused on catalyzing African National Initiatives and mobilizing the resources of of the Body of Christ in Africa for the fulfillment of the Great Commission.
Well, it's 11:30pm on Wed. evening, May 17, the close of Day 1 at the GCOWE '95. Registration went so smoothly and quickly, it was hardly believable! (For those who attended Lausanne II in Manila, forget the long lines! These volunteers an AD2000 & Beyond staff people had this registration thing down to a science...
Day 2 at GCOWE '95 started with the Unreached People Group Track's plenary presentation (all 4000 delegates together). After premiering a dynamite 11 minute video on the challenge remaining before us, Track Chairman Patrick Johnstone (author of Operation World) explained the progress the group had made toward agreeing upon a list of unreached peoples. The...
Tracks, tracks and more tracks! That's what happened today. And for the second day in a row, sessions went once again from 9am to 9pm. (By the way, don't forget to add 90 minutes on the front and the back for bus time!) Still, there was seemingly a high degree of participation in the program....
What a finish for the 4th day!!! Seoul Olympic Stadium was absolutely full tonight -- even though the rain poured throughout the entire evening! In front of tens of thousands of Koreans, GCOWE delegates were paraded onto the field like Olympic athletes and were even made to walk the track, wave at the crowd, then...
Well you've heard of the Yoido "Cho" Church, right? So had I. But I had no idea just how much this church had accomplished over the past few years... until visiting today. It all started back in 1958... not really that long ago. The time was 5 years after the Korean War. 80% of all...
Well you've heard of the Yoido "Cho" Church, right? So had I. But I had no idea just how much this church had accomplished over the past few years... until visiting today. It all started back in 1958... not really that long ago. The time was 5 years after the Korean War. 80% of all...
Reporting from Seoul, [Jefferson] Ritchie shows his exuberance at the consultation's progress. "The spirit here is blowing our minds!," says Ritchie. The Presbyterian Church (USA) Associate for International Church Development and Evangelism says, "I already sense two key themes developing: the first is people uniting to pray. The second is people uniting across all sorts...
Welcome to GCOWE '95, the AD 2000 mid-decadal strategy consultation in Korea! We rejoice that you have come to participate in this historic event, whose theme is $quot;a church for every people and the gospel for every person by AD 2000." We have come to Seoul from all parts of the world_some 200 countries! We...
We are gathered here with the rich heritage of those who have gone before us. We are here in a spirit of repentance... repenting for our lack of heart, vision, our lack of compassion, our bigotry, our prejudice. Yet grateful for the blood of Jesus that still cleanses us from all of our sin. Thankful...
GCOWE 95 NOW HISTORY -- They came together from all over the world -- 186 nations to be exact. It was called the Global Consultation on World Evangelization -- and global is right! Our count revealed 3293 delegates plus a total of 827 guests, intercessors, staff and volunteers resulted in 4120 individuals gathered for one...
Assemblies of God has a project called Decade of Harvest. It is global in scope. However, every nation has their own direction and administration of this vision. The purpose is the same as the purpose of AD2000, resulting in a close linkage between the organizations.
The Anglican vision of a Decade of Evangelism is not an ad hoc programme which we will soon get over with and then return to "normal Church life." In point of fact, for us, normal Church life is one underpinned by a belief that the central import of our Lord's Great Commission is that the...
Brazil has become known as the land of soccer. We have already become World Champions four times. But our country is also known for other peculiar characteristics: Who has not heard of the way in which our nation bows to the lusts of the flesh at the annual festival of Carnival? Who has not also...
During the 1989 National Consultation on the Evangelization of Nigeria by the year 2000, participants resolved as follows: We are committed to taking the gospel to every unreached people - so that every person in Nigeria could have a relevant opportunity to respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ. We accept the challenge to take...
We all agree -- everyone needs to have and understand God's Word. Only Scripture shows us who God is. His character and purposes are revealed nowhere else. Jesus told us "to make disciples of all peoples... teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you...." To be a disciple everyone needs the Bible. The goal...
It is a great joy for me to share and present what the Lord has been doing in our country and wants us to do. Great racial, ethnic, religious diversity makes the Indian society the most complex society on the face of the earth. The Hindu heartland of mystery and myth fascinates the natives as...
During the last ten years, Latin America has definitely begun establishing democratic governments and political liberties, as well as the exercising of human rights. Such things were, until recently, unimaginable in some countries subjugated during long decades by military dictatorship or oppressive governments. Today, every government in Latin America, except for Cuba, has been elected...
Hundreds of international and national coordinators all over the world are working together under the Prayer Track to identify, motivate, and release qualified prayer networks. Many new and exciting forms of corporate prayer are bringing the Body of Christ together in spiritual unity never before seen. International prayer networks working in cooperation with the United...
We must have light! We must know the situation as it really is, not what we imagine it to be. When we labor under ignorance and error, outdated and irrelevant information, the Kingdom of Darkness has a distinct advantage, and millions will never be brought into the light. Ask yourself: What do I really know...
Tena koutou katoa (Maori language = greetings to you all). It's a privilege to share how God has led us in New Zealand to a vision for greater cooperation among the denominations to reach our nation. New Zealand, in the South Pacific, is a western democracy of 3.5 million people. There are 60 million sheep....
During the 1989 National Consultation on the Evangelization of Nigeria by the year 2000, participants resolved as follows: We are committed to taking the gospel to every unreached people - so that every person in Nigeria could have a relevant opportunity to respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ. We accept the challenge to take...
The Mobilizing New Missionaries Network of the AD2000 Movement exists to "help the Body of Christ mobilize a new mission force for unreached peoples in our generation." The focus of the network is to help bring about an international alliance of cooperative national missions movements working to raise up new missionaries. The primary target of...
Networking pastors from 200 countries around the world, this Network is committed to carrying out this five-fold purpose: To mobilize pastors so that their local churches/assemblies will engage in the work of evangelization, missions and church planting. To train our laity in the local church for the work of evangelization. To encourage pastors and leaders...
As we approach the midpoint of this final decade of the Twentieth Century, the Lord of the Church has begun to stir in hearts of many Christian leaders in the United States. He is calling us to give spiritual leadership to the mobilizing of Christ's Church for united prayer, the seeking of genuine revival in...
My name is Luis Bush. I am the International Director of GCOWE '95. [Welcome in the languages of the consultation] There are probably participants from more countries of the world at this Christian gathering than at any other event at any time in all of Christian history. Praise the Lord. We are grateful for the...
"All For Christ" as a mission movement in Congo started in 1978 when the first Protestant missionaries came to our jungles with the Good News of Christ. All missions societies that came to Congo since then have had one goal: to reach all Congo means all tribes, classes and persons for Christ. This first stage...
With a flurry of new materials and a last-minute surprise, a global consultation advances the frontier missions movement. Expectations were high as 314 mission leaders from 50 countries descended on Singapore’s Amara Hotel during the first week of 1989. But if these participants in the Global Consultation on World Evangelization by AD 2000 and Beyond...
Today, nearly two thousand years after Christ challenged his disciples with the Great Commission, the Church which bears His name approaches a milestone many had only dreamed of reaching. A goal which has ignited the hearts of missionaries for centuries now stands within sight.