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Aussies head to Capetown

1:00am Wednesday, 28th April 2010  

John Sandeman

John Anderson, the former deputy PM, Tim Mander ex Rugby League ref and CEO of the fast growing SU Queensland, and Gordon Preece director of the recently launched Ethos the Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity & Society are high profile members of the Australian delegation to the Lausanne Conference 2010.
Cape Town 2010, held in collaboration with the World Evangelical Alliance, will bring together 4,000 leaders from more than 200 countries to confront critical issues —other world faiths, poverty, HIV/AIDS, persecution, among others—as they relate to world evangelisation.
The 60-strong Australian delegation  also includes Baptist evangelist and church planter Michael Frost, Ross Clifford Principal of Morling college and Daniel Willis CEO of the Bible Society NSW.
Anglican Bishop Glenn Davies (North Sydney) is joined by  ex-Bishop Stephen Hale. Denise Austin of AlphaCrucis college represents the Pentecostals and John Dickson carries the Centre for Public Christianity banner.
Kirk Franklin,CEO for Wycliffe Bible Translators International, and Tim Silberman who is organizing this years Reachout conference on mission in Sydney. Founder of Crossway Baptist, Stuart Robinson, adds a baptist flavour. (In print we confused him with the Other Stuart Robinson, Anglican Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn. We aopligise to both Stuarts).
Mark McCrindle, is the market researcher behind Jesus. All About Life, and is joined by fellow researcher Philip Hughes. Jim Wallace from Australian Christian Lobby brings a high profile voice to the delegation.
The Australian group has many new faces—there are 5 under 30 years old and another 13 under 40. One of them is Andrew Chin, Youth Pastor of Wesley International Congregation. (His boss, Keith Garner, the superintendent of the mission is tagging
 along). Sarah Plummer, chaplain at St Pauls Grammar in Cranebrook NSW, will be another new face. The selection committee have come in with 71% under 50.
The conference to be held in October is the third congress on World Evangelisation. Billy Graham sponsored the first in Berlin in 1966 At Lausanne in 1974 the term “unreached people groups” was first used.
 Stott headed a committee responsible in large part for the Lausanne Covenant, a call to mission. It argued for the place of social action alongside evangelisation—still a hot topic which Tim Chester tackles on page 8.