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Region: English Portuguese & Spanish-speaking Africa (EPSA)

Lausanne Region: EPSA

Updates from the Region

by Nana Yaw Offei Awuku

This is an exciting time in God鈥檚 Mission plan for Africa.  鈥God is on the Move鈥 in Africa in a very significant and historic way, fulfilling His redemptive purposes in Christ and for His own Glory.  The preamble of The Cape Town Commitment shares this light and important affirmation on the current realities of global changes:

鈥淏ut one great change in our world is a cause for rejoicing 鈥 and that is the growth of the global church of Christ. The fact that the Third Lausanne Congress has taken place in Africa is proof of this. At least two thirds of all the world鈥檚 Christians now live in the continents of the global south and east. We rejoice in the amazing growth of the Church in Africa, and we rejoice that our African sisters and brothers in Christ hosted this Congress. So we give thanks to the progress of the Gospel and the Sovereign righteousness of God at work in recent history, while wrestling still with the ongoing legacy of evil and injustice. Such is the double witness and role of the Church in every place. We must respond in Christian Mission to the realities of our own generation.鈥  (The Cape Town Commitment)

We are glad and deeply grateful that the LORD has now progressed Mission Africa to the next level of implementation. Mission Africa II will give 鈥楨vangelistic Legs鈥 to the Cape Town Commitment in Africa and beyond.

Please find below my foundational thoughts for work plans for Lausanne EPSA over the next couple of years.  They are basically my prayerful reflections and serve to provide a broad framework for my work as Lausanne EPSA IDD from 2012-2015.

Vision: Lausanne EPSA to provide platform for empowering partnerships and inspiring leadership in serving the Church in Africa to take its strategic position in the 21st century global missions mandate.

Towards this goal Lausanne EPSA will:

  1. Focus on 3 Priority Strategies 鈥 The Cape Town Commitment Roll Out Strategy; The Missions Africa II Strategy and a Younger Leaders Development Strategy.
  2. Leadership for each Priority Strategy will be given by a constituted Regional Strategy Support Team (five members on each team) who will team up closely with the IDD in the Identification and working out of carefully selected Initiatives, Networks and Partnerships in the spirit of 鈥淭he Whole Church taking the Whole Gospel to the Whole World鈥 and in response to the Cape Town Commitment.
  3. Six Leaders from the Joint EPSA Regional Strategy Group will serve on the Lausanne Global Advisory Council.
  4. Lausanne Board Members from EPSA and Senior Associates will be available to serve in advisory capacity to the three Regional Strategy Teams.
  5. Country Level Leadership will be provided to Lausanne Country Committees which will oversee National Lausanne CTC Initiatives, Congresses and Missions.
  6. A Global Consultation on Ethnicity and Christian Identity will be hosted by Lausanne EPSA in 2013.
  7. A Regional Communications Team will work with the Regional Communications Manager, when appointed, and will serve to closely partner, network and communicate all Lausanne related events in EPSA for our sharing, prayer and the Global Lausanne Family.

Emmanuel Ndikumana, Lausanne IDD for Francophone Africa, and I have decided to work closely together as we serve our regions in Francophone Africa and EPSA respectively.