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NEWS: Christian Mission Targets 2000 / Nepal 2000
Headline: Christian Mission Target 2000
Byline: Recently, more than 800 Christian leaders met in Nepal to launch
Nepal 2000
Organiser, New Delhi, Feb. 12, 1995, P. 9
Christian denominations worldwide are planning to spread the gospel to
each person by the year 2000. An international organisation called 'AD
2000 and Beyond' based in Colorado, USA is promoting mass evangelization
and outreach plans worldwide to wards this goal.
"A church for every people and the gospel for every person by AD 2000" is
the aim of the 5-year old organisation, says Shri Luis Bush, its
director. According to the Houston Chronicle, the year 2000 has been
chosen as many believe that the world would end that year. Therefore,
their wish to "save" as many souls as possible.
The international organisation collects and promotes evangelization plans
from the world over. Its activities include evangelization research and
data bank development, recruitment of specific groups like women, youth
and pastors as evangelizers and Bible and gospel literature evangelism.
The Chronicle says that there are 2000 plans at present., including
national plans in Canada, Costa Rica, Nigeria and Bangladesh. Recently,
more than 800 chrsitian leaders met in Nepal to launch Nepal 2000.
This evangelization movement was started in 1977 by Southern Baptist
Convention. That year the convention launched a programme named Bold
Mission Thrust. Their goal was to take the gospel to everyone in the
language they could understand by 2000, said Shri Bush. Later, the
Southern Baptist mission leaders realized that the goal was impossible.
Then a meeting of 10 mission organisations was held to consider
collaboration. The meeting prepared the ground for the 1989 Global
Consultation on World Evangelization, which gave birth to AD 2000 and Beyond.
In May 1995, about 44,000 leaders from 200 countries are to meet in
Seoul, South Korea for another Global Consultation on World
Evangelization, and Asia, Africa and Latin America will be the main
fields of mission activity.
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