who we are
This website reflects the journey and work of 47 Christian leaders from six continents, 21 countries, and diverse Christian communions — theologians, missiologists, practitioners, pastors, and scholars from some of the world’s most conflict-ridden places. An emerging network is growing out of their relationship and partnership. Click Here for a list of contributors.
The group's new major paper, "Reconciliation as the Mission of God" is now available, seeking to contribute to a fresh conversation on Christian witness in a divided world.
THE STORY
From 2003-2004, 47 Christian leaders from diverse communions partnered in a journey to discern the urgent call to faithful Christian witness in a divided world.
The 47 came together as one of 31 Issue Groups at the September 2004 Forum on World Evangelization in Pattaya, Thailand, organized by the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization. The Issue Group on Reconciliation included Protestant evangelicals, Pentecostals, and denominational leaders, two Catholic priests, and one Orthodox priest. [click here for more]
COVENANT
In Pattaya, members of divided communities in the group covenanted together and engaged in a dramatic foot washing at the 2004 Forum on World Evanglization in Thailand, including Hutu and Tutsi and Israeli and Palestinian. This sign of the church on her knees, washing feet across the boundaries of our divided world, is the vision of the kingdom desperately needed in our time. Click here to view the covenant. To purchase a DVD copy of the ISSUE GROUP REPORT AT 2004 FORUM ON WORLD EVANGELIZATION, featuring the dramatic foot washing across tragic world divisions, click here. Scroll to page bottom and order "Issue Group Reports." Cost US$15 (report is on Disc 2, #13)
