The Lausanne Congresses and Idaho Falls
From the Idaho Falls Post Register, October 4, 1974, p. A-8: Lausanne, Switzerland – The International Congress on World Evangelization with over 3,000 participants from 152 nations meeting here recently reaffirmed the need for more missionaries throughout the world than ever before if the task of world evangelization is to be completed in this century. Dr. Billy Graham, in a keynote address, pointed out that great multitudes of people are cut off from their Christian neighbors by deep linguistic, political and cultural chasms. “For Christians to build evangelistic strategies on ‘near neighbor’ evangelism alone would shut out at least one billion individuals from hearing about Jesus Christ,” he said. “Churches from every land,” Dr. Graham emphasized “must deliberately send out missionaries and evangelist to master other languages, learn of other cultures and perhaps live there for life.”… Malcom Muggeridge, noted English humorist, writer and observer of the world scene,