It is with deep sadness that I share the news that Dr. Robert Harp passed quietly and unexpectedly in his sleep yesterday morning. Bob served as Catalyst for Lausanne’s Workplace Ministry Issue Network and was a key leader for the Global Workplace Forum lausanne.org/about/leaders/…

“Freedom is not simply the ability to do what you want, but the willingness to do what you ought. The greatest challenge to freedom is freedom itself.” Os Guinness

NYC population alone represents over 637 documented unique languages and dialects. lausanne.org/content/lga/20…

a "global gateway city" is one with sizable populations of least-reached, "ends of the earth" people groups who are both accessible to Christian witness and through whom their home populations overseas could be impacted with the gospel. lausanne.org/content/lga/20…

Did you know? The global diaspora population is nearly 260 million people worldwide. lausanne.org/content/lga/20…

the reality of demographics in 21st century requires 3-tiered strategy: TO diaspora (evangelism & service), THROUGH diaspora (using diaspora Christians to reach their own), & BY & BEYOND diaspora (challenging diaspora to engage in cross-cultural missions). lausanne.org/content/lga/20…

LONG-TERM committed presence is key! "The reality is many UPGs living in the city such as Hindus & Buddhists need time & relationships to come to grips with the biblical concept of God, creation & sin before they can completely understand the gospel."lausanne.org/content/lga/20… Lausanne Movement

This Easter season, after a challenging year of loss and suffering, many of us have become well acquainted with grief as well. Michael Oh invites us to consider our grief in light of the grief that Jesus and his disciples faced in the days around his death: bit.ly/3sIkRds

Sharing grief and joy together as a global family this Easter season 2021.... youtube.com/watch?v=oI16Qu…

Nature’s fireworks over LBI last night. Action News on 6abc @6abcChrisSowers

those with little to no access to the gospel are 50 times more responsive to the gospel Todd M Johnson

those with little to no access to gospel have highest fertility rates - thus according to our current trajectory 25% of the world will still never hear the gospel in 2050. Todd M Johnson

Spiritual blindness (unlike physical blindness) blinds you to the reality that you can’t see. Bill Smith

NOW AVAILABLE — The Heart of the Cross by James Montgomery Boice & Philip Graham Ryken | buff.ly/3wnK01C

Loving this book by 2 of my favorite pastors Philip Graham Ryken and the late Dr. Jim Boice! My daily companion this week. P&R Publishing

A special invitation to my global mission and Lausanne friends! Starting tomorrow Wed 14 Sept 9 am Eastern, we will meet weekly for an hour to listen to the whole Bible as a global family before the 4th Lausanne Congress in Seoul in 2024! More info here: lausanne.org/listening-to-g…

Go Phillies!!!

“Kingdom Collaboration” is a special episode for The Mission Matters because Ted & Matthew teamed up w/ Walter Kim of the National Association of Evangelicals to talk w/ MIchael Oh (Michael Oh) about Lausanne 4 in Seoul, & the importance of creating movements of collaboration to advance the Gospel.

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For anyone wondering what the Lausanne Movement is or wants to know how to explain it to others 😂youtube.com/watch?v=xLeWe1…