Source: Lausanne Movement, October 26, 2015
The first Mission China 2030 Conference was convened in Hong Kong on September 28 to October 1 and attended by 900 participants from mainland China. The Mission China 2030 vision is for China to send out 20,000 missionaries by the year 2030. Two hundred missionary commitments were made as the first step toward fulfilling this vision.
The Mission China 2030 vision was catalyzed by two main gatherings, the Third Lausanne Congress (Cape Town, 2010) and the Asian Church Leaders Forum (Seoul, 2013). Two hundred Chinese Christian leaders were invited to the Third Lausanne Congress, but were unable to attend.
Plans were made to invite them to a separate gathering in 2013, the Asian Church Leaders Forum (ACLF). It was at the Asian Church Leaders Forum that Rev. Daniel Jin (Executive Director of Mission China Today magazine) urged the Chinese church to work and pray to see 20,000 missionaries sent out from China by 2030.
“Over the last 200 years, since the days of the earliest British pioneer Robert Morrison, some 20,000 missionaries have served in China.” There was, he said, “a gospel debt to pay off.”
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