Urgent, Critical, Top Priority from Tokyo to Cape Town

This past summer at the Global Mission Consultation in Tokyo, Japan, evangelical missionary leaders from around the world gathered to discuss a strategy for fulfilling Christ's Great Commission in our generation.  Dr. Paul Eshleman, vice-president of Campus Crusade for Christ and founder of the JESUS film project outlined the top ten essential priorities for the church to make disciples of every unreached people group in our generation.  He repeated the priorities at the Lausanne Congress in Cape Town, South Africa in October.  Here are the top five:

#5  Church Planting
#4  Reaching Oral Learners
#3  Increasing Evangelization, with a focus on Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus
#2  Engaging the unengaged people groups
#1  Scripture translation

Eshleman declared, "Scripture translation is the #1 priority throughout the world because it’s impossible to do ministry without a Biblical foundation."

We agree!  This is one reason why we are going to Tanzania.  Our passion is to equip Tanzanians to translate the Bible into their own languages and then make disciples of their nation.


Resources:
http://www.tokyo2010.org/
http://www.missionfrontiers.org/pdf/2010/04/10-11.pdf
watch the video at:
http://conversation.lausanne.org/en/conversations/detail/11455