Linking You to Cape Town 2010

Lord willing, the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, October 16-25, 2010.  4,000 leaders from across 200 countries are scheduled to gather to discuss several contemporary challenges as they relate to the Church and global evangelization.  In light of this historic event, I am interrupting my series on church planting to provide you with some additional information on Cape Town.  The schedule for the congress is available as a pdf HERE.One of the amazing aspects of Cape Town 2010 is that technology will make this event accessible to the multitudes across the globe.  Such was not the case for the two previous congresses.  In this post, I want to share with you some helpful links related to the meeting.  I also want to thank Jon Hirst, director of the Cape Town 2010 Blogger Network, for compiling many of these links for us.

Global Link Locations.  Here are 600 sites across the globe where you can participate remotely in Cape Town 2010:http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/globalink.htmlOnline Participation. For information related to the numerous on-line opportunities:http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/participate-online.htmlRSS of CT2010 News (includes Lausanne blog):  Here is some information on prayer and up-to-date podcasts to which you can subscribe:  http://feeds2.feedburner.com/lausannesiteVideo Podcast. The video of the plenary and multiplex sessions will be available on-line within 5 hours of the completion of each session.  You can participate in the discussion by watching the sessions and then participating in the Lausanne Global Conversation (http://conversation.lausanne.org/en/):iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=397353785Direct link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CT2010VideoPodcast Note: Video podcast is not compatible with older ipods.Audio PodcastiTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=397353786Direct link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CT2010AudioPodcastAll congress videos will be added to: http://conversation.lausanne.org/enEmail Newsletter (for daily news summaries/highlights):http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?llr=hr96nzn6&p=oi&m=1011244526119If you have not had a chance to participate in any of the global conversations on the topics being discussed at Cape Town, you should check out the Lausanne Global Conversation page:  http://conversation.lausanne.org/en/For those of you interested in finding out about the history of the Lausanne Movement and previous documents, you should check out the Lausanne Movement Homepage:  http://www.lausanne.org/Also, you will want to check out this brief video, documenting the historic 1974 Lausanne, Switzerland meeting that launched the Movement.