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The visiting preacher offered words of commitment, conviction and courage to the fragile congregation. He drew their attention to the example of Caleb, the young Israeli spy who believed that Moses could and should lead God’s chosen people into the…Read More→
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The young man with the leather jacket and styled hair fixed his eye on the cross on my necklace as I boarded, following me with a steady gaze as I worked my way past the front benches and eventually slipped…Read More→
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MONTREAL, QC�”For the past 20 years a Montreal-based ministry has been channeling medicine to needy areas around the world. Health Partners International of Canada (HPIC) is a non-profit relief and development organization working to increase access to medicine and improve…Read More→
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A lot of Christians lament the waning influence of religion in North America and other Western societies. But that trend is decidedly not the case in most of the rest of the world, and it is changing here as well….Read More→
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Cape Town, South Africa is a 12-hour flight from London, England, which makes it a far way away from Canada. Nevertheless, nearly 100 Canadians traveled that long distance to take part in the October 17-25 Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization….Read More→
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I foxtrotted through 10 days in Cape Town, South Africa like it was a delightful, fleeting dream. As a participant (and reporter) at the third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, I was wrapped up in conference sessions and busy doing…Read More→
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CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA—”Superficial evangelism is not going to get the job done,” says René Padilla, a renowned evangelical scholar from Latin America, currently living in Argentina. “Jesus talked about making disciples who learned to obey everything he has taught.”…Read More→
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Canadian evangelical Christians were vital participants in Cape Town 2010, the third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, which gathered in South Africa October 17-24. While Canada supplied its quota of just 50 of some 4,200 official participants, our countrymen and…Read More→
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CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA—The dramatic testimony of an 18-year-old North Korean woman electrified more than 4,000 listeners on the second evening at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. In simple words, Sung Kyung Ju described how her father, who had…Read More→
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CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA—”God is at work all over the world in amazing ways despite ourselves,” says Dion Oxford, one of 50 official Canadian participants at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, which convened October 17-24 in Cape Town, South…Read More→