Lausanne to Living Hope

Delegates learning about Living Grace (homeless ministry)

Delegates getting HIV tests at our mobile clinic

Delegates having lunch with the Support Group Facilitators

We learned during training in August that Natasha and I were going to be responsible for organizing a one-day event on Living Hope’s campus. The Lausanne Conference on World Evangelism, the largest of its kind (4,000 delegates), is meeting in Cape Town this month. We were told back in August to expect from 20 to 60 delegates to show up for an on-campus tour of Living Hope. Living Hope was one of about a dozen missions in the area from which delegates could choose to visit during their day off from the conference. Over the past month or so, we’ve been meeting with general managers and others in Living Hope to help plan this day. The hard part is that we didn’t know how many were actually coming until a few days before the day itself. We needed to ensure that what was shown was a good representation since Living Hope is so diverse in ministry scope. We asked general managers to work out a 15-minute “station” in which staff could help interactively describe and demonstrate their respective ministry areas. We helped them achieve this by providing logistics, schedule, and general communication. The rest was taken care of by general managers and their staff. The end result? Over 100 delegates came and saw an incredible and enthusiastic effort amongst the staff to communicate how God is working in the area through Living Hope. We are also encouraged to see what an event like this (and more like it!) can help spread the word about Living Hope to the local community and beyond.