Global Christianity

Cape Town 2010 Conference: Lausanne Congress - The Third Lausanne Congress on Evangelization, held in Cape Town, South Africa, was perhaps the widest and most diverse gathering of Christians ever held in the history of the Church. Over 4,000 delegates from 198 nations gathered in Cape Town from October 16-25, 2010. In addition, the Congress reached over 100,000 more participants via 650 GlobaLink sites in 91 countries. Gordon-Conwell was privileged to serve as a GlobaLink site, and hosted a two-day conference on October 22-23, 2010. Over 300 participants from various local churches, missions organizations across the country, local colleges and our own seminary community gathered to discuss the topics being presented at Cape Town. We watched the plenary sessions shown at the Cape Town Congress and engaged in discussion and prayer around table groups. The GlobaLink Conference was a meaningful and fruitful gathering, which served to network believers in the New England area and connect us to the greater Body of Christ across the world. But this is more than just a one-time event! Our intention is that this conference would serve as a catalyst for reinvigorating the church’s commitment to mission and would stimulate the Church’s role in addressing the issues of our day. Towards this end, the Wilson Center for World Missions has planned a series of ongoing events and opportunities to better equip, engage and encourage the local church in fulfilling its global mission.

Center for the Study of Global Christianity - Provides the World Christian Database (WCD) is based on the award-winning World Christian Encyclopedia and World Christian Trends. This extensive work on world religion is now completely updated and integrated into the WCD online database - designed for both the casual user and research scholar. This database transforms current religious statistics into a real-time analysis tool. The Center for the Study of Global Christianity collates and analyzes data on church membership and evangelistic activities collected around the world by Christian denominations. Combining this with other relevant data, the center provides an authoritative view of global Christianity available to various constituents for research and strategic planning.

Lausanne Covenant - A statement of belief that best represents the global Evangelical Church.

World Christian Database: Center for the Study of Global Christianity - The World Christian Database transforms current religious statistics into a real-time analysis tool that takes just minutes to perform even detailed research. This comprehensive database brings together a fully updated and cohesive religious data set with a world-class database architecture. The result is a simple, yet powerful database tool that enables users to customize reports and download data for in use in charts, tables, and graphs.

World Christian Encyclopedia: Center for the Study of Global Christianity - First published in 1982, the World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE) immediately took its place as the authoritative, standard work in its field. The second edition’s oversized 1,700 pages represent the most extensive survey of Christianity, and of religion in general, ever attempted. The heart of the WCE is a series of 238 chapters on the status of religion and of Christianity in every country in the world. Statistical tables show, in great detail, the religious breakdown of the population and the Christian denominations of every country. The second edition updated and extended this analysis to include the status of Christianity in every language, people, city and province of the world. The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) writes that the second edition of the WCE "leaves no stone unturned when it comes to the current state of Christianity in the world…Why add this to your reference collection? Simply put, it is the best statistical work on the current state of Christianity to come along in the 20 years since the WCE was first published."

World Christian Trends: Center for the Study of Global Christianity - Features 100-page chronology of 7,000 significant Christian and religious events; Who's Who of 1,800 Christian and religious leaders across 20 countries; Global statistical index of evangelism and evangelization; Statistics of religious persecution and Christian martyrs throughout history; Religious change across Europe since the end of the Communist era; Rapidly spreading Pentecostal and Charismatic churches worldwide; Explosive growth via Independent Christianity in Africa, Latin America, Asia; 74 global diagrams ("X-ray negatives" showing Christianity's inside workings); Missions and global plans - a full report on strategies, successes, failures; Economics of Christianity - finances, poverty, cost-effectiveness of mission; Emerging political and demographic factors affecting the future of Christianity; The futuristics of Christianity and world religions with projections to AD 2200; Glossary of terms, extensive bibliographies, full-color global maps; Methodology of the massive survey in World Christian Encyclopedia 1982 to 2001culminating in World Christian Trends, AD30-AD2200.