- Name
- Theme
- Vision Statement
- Declaration
- Schedule
- Philosophy and Purpose
- Statement of Faith
- Delegate Selection and Qualification
- Financial Information
- Delegate Instructions
- Sponsoring Organizations and Networks
- Board of Reference
- Planning Committee
- Regional Sponsors
- Regional Offices
- Contact Information
NAME
Global Mission Consultation & Celebration - From Edinburgh to Tokyo
THEME
Celebrating the Past and Embracing the Future
VISION STATEMENT
Making Disciples Of Every People in Our Generation
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you."
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Matthew 28: 19-20 (NIV)
The vision statement of the Tokyo 2010 Global Missions Consultation is "Making disciples of all peoples in our generation." While this statement maintains the "closure" focus of Edinburgh 1910 and 1980-represented by the phrase "all peoples"-it also captures an equally important dimension of the Great Commission-the purpose of our going, which is to teach all peoples to obey everything Jesus commanded.
Discipling peoples is a process, not a one time event or accomplishment. It is something that has to revisited in and by every new generation. The often repeated truism that the Christian faith is just one generation away from extinction is a reality not only for the Church where it is, but for those seeking to build it where it is not.
Thus it is imperative that we continually ask ourselves: What kind of Christianity are we seeking to establish around the world? Is it a copy of our own-one in which we can't even keep our own young people who have been raised in Christian homes? Or is it built on more solid foundations? The kind laid down by the Master himself, who took twelve young men, and said, "Come, follow me." Or the kind laid down by the Apostle Paul, who said to the church in Corinth, "Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me-put into practice" (Php. 4:9). And again to the Church in Ephesus, "I urge you to imitate me" (1 Cor. 4:16). How many of our leaders would be willing to say that today! But that is the goal, and until we get there we are not fulfilling the Great Commission.
Making disciples is a three-step process: first by going to those who had had no exposure to the gospel; second, by calling them into a relationship with Jesus that culminates in baptism; and third by teaching them to observe his commands. There is an overwhelming need and challenge to the missionary endeavors to reach those who have not heard - the unreached ethne of our times. In doing that we expect to see the church planted and in turn reaching out to others. But the challenge does not stop there. Making disciples includes a process that follows to keep that new follower learning and growing in his new faith, what some call “spiritual formation.” The important thing is that there is an on-going growth experience. A new believer’s worldview must be changed; his lifestyle adjusted to increasingly conform to the image of Christ; and his ethical conduct increasingly marked by integrity. When transformation is apparent in these areas, that believer in turn is in a position to teach others also and thus duplicate the process.
The Tokyo 2010 Global Missions Consultation will look at how we can work together to finish the task. How do we keep the conversation going and develop cooperative plans to move forward? How can we make sure that every people is properly engaged by disciple-making teams over the next decade? How can we help strengthen missions movements around the world which are just developing?
We thus embrace a vision of Making Disciples, with a time schedule of the generation of each one of us. We don't put a specific date on the vision, but realize that as we work together in love and increasing effectiveness and obedience to the Master's plan, the vision is both reachable and Biblical.
(See Where Do We Go From Here: The Challenges of Tokyo 2010 for a longer discussion of the Vision of Tokyo 2010)
TOKYO 2010 DECLARATION
The Tokyo Declaration was adopted in Tokyo and as a common pledge of Tokyo 2010 Delegates.
SCHEDULE
The Tokyo 2010 conference schedule includes three parts:
- Morning Plenary Sessions
- Afternoon Workshops
- Evening Mission Festival and Rally open to the public.
The day-time sessions of the conference will be dedicated to mission agency leaders and mission leaders to focus on the conference themes, including the consultation pointing us to the future. The morning will each highlight 4 plenary addresses of approximately 45 minutes by speakers representing the many areas of mission outreach around the world. This is a celebration of the past, but most importantly an effort to help us focus on the way forward together. The schedule draws on the expertise of respected mission leaders from around the world, and are meant to focus on our workshop discussion times that follow. Papers will be published for each plenary address.
Plenary Session Speakers and Topics:
The New Renewal Missionary Movement
Dr. Obed Alvarez - General Secretary of NEWMA, Peru, Latin America; Chairman Third World Mission Association (TWMA)
Kingdom Mission: DNA of Missionary Task
Dr. David J. Cho - Founder of Asia Missions Association
Rationale for Mission Structures
Dr. Sung-Sam Kang - Secretary General of the Korean World Missions Association
Making Disciples – A Way Forward in Mission
Mr. Gbile Akanni - Bible Teacher, Discipleship & Leadership Development
Beyond Christianity - Insider Movements: The Place of the Bible and the Body of Christ in New Movements to Jesus
Mr. Kevin S. Higgins - International Director, GLOBAL TEAMS
Global Peoples & Diaspora Missiology
Dr. Enoch Wan - Professor of Intercultural Studies, Western Seminary; President, Evangelical Missiological Society
Islam Global Outreach (New Models)
Dr. Hisham Kamel - International Director of Arabic Communication Center; General Coordinator of Third World Mission Association (TWMA)
Biblical Foundation for Making Disciples of Every People
Dr. Marvin Newell - Executive Director, CrossGlobal Link
Japanese Challenges: Buddhism, Shintoism and Others
Dr. Minoru Okuyama - Principal of the Missionary Training Center - Japan
Indian religions: Challenge and Outreach Models
Rev. Susanta Patra - National Director, India Missions Association
Reaching the Secular Peoples of Europe
Mr. Stefan Gustavsson - Director CredoAkademin; General Secretary Swedish Evangelical Alliance; Assistant Professor Gimlekollen School of Media and Communication
The State of the Unfinished Task
Dr. Paul Eshleman - Vice President, Campus Crusade for Christ, International; Director, Finishing The Task Network.
Workshop Format
The conference workshops are aligned under 4 general goals; (1) Celebration, (2) Casting Vision, (3) New Opportunities and Models; and (4) Coordination. They will vary in content and format. As much as possible, they are designed to be interactive with the desire to produce a discussion result that will move us forward together in our common visions. Some topics, including regional presentations, need more than one hour to give time for discussion, up to a total of the six hours available either for one continuing workshop or for a workshop track.
The workshops are intended to model and reflect; a consultation and mutual study together rather than one person presenting a topic. We want to find something we can do only when we bring people together. Interactive workshops with delegates brainstorming together to discuss their own problems are the expectation.
Evening Mission Festival and Rally
The first night speaker is Tsugumichi Okawa, pastor of Yamato Calvary Chapel in Kanagawa Prefecture next to Tokyo. Pastor Okawa has built a church that is more successful than any other Japanese church in home missions. His church sees 1,300 worshippers in attendance every Sunday.
The second night speaker is Talo Sataraka, pastor of New Hope International Fellowship in Tokyo. His church's innovative, attractive, sparkling worship services have been instrumental in leading hundreds of souls to Christ in the ten short years of their existence. 450 is their average attendance.
The third night speaker is Yong Jo Ha, pastor of Onnuri Church in Seoul, Korea. This rapidly-growing church has reached 65,000 in a relatively short 20 years of existence. Their outstanding contributions to foreign missions have largely taken the form of "Love Sonata" concerts which always play to packed auditoriums and satellite broadcasts through their CGNTV network. Perhaps no one has done more for missions in Japan or Asia over the last few years!
The last night speaker is Young Hoon Lee, who has replaced David Yonggi Cho as Senior Pastor of the world's largest church, Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul. This church has sent out 720 missionaries to 65 countries and has an international network of 1000 churches around the globe.
PHILOSOPHY AND PURPOSE OF TOKYO 2010
- Consecrate/Celebrate: Worship and Thanksgiving – reviewing what God has done in missions since 1910
- Commemorate: Honoring those who have served in the last 100 years – include martyrs
- Coordinate: Connecting mission agencies of all nations – promote greater interdependence
- Cast: Cast vision for the future – how can we work together
- Look at new opportunities, models & Strategies
- Bless the Japanese church & people
TOKYO 2010 STATEMENT OF FAITH
The Tokyo 2010 Global Mission Consultation uses as its statement of faith the historic Lausanne Covenant which was produced out of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization held in Lausanne, Switzerland.
TOKYO 2010 DELEGATE SELECTION AND QUALIFICATIONS
It is the responsibility of sending mission agencies and churches to choose and send their delegates to the Tokyo 2010 conference, in the pattern of Edinborough 1910. In general, quota guidelines per agency are observed with two delegates per sending agency with 25 or less missionaries serving cross-culturally, and three delegates for sending agencies with over 25 and under 50 missionaries, and four delegates for larger agencies. The Acceptance Committee considers these and other guidelines in approving delegates. Applications for participation as delegates for individuals and situations outside of these guidelines will be considered, but approval cannot be guaranteed. In addition, pastors and Christian leaders from Japan can apply as Observers.
TOKYO 2010 FINANCIAL INFORMATION
The ‘Early-Bird’ registration fee is $150 for delegate applicants from all countries except the following:
(Australia, Canada, Europe (Western), Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States). The full registration fee is $200 for any applications received after January 31February 28, 2010.
The ‘Early-Bird’ registration fee for delegate applicants from the listed countries is $300 ($350 for any applications received after January 31February 28, 2010), with the extra $150 used to provide partial scholarships for needy and worthy applicants. Applicants from these countries are also expected to pay for their own lodging costs (options will be provided by the Japan Host Committee), although the basic 7-meal package (four evening meals and three lunches) is included for all participants, except Observers. Otherwise the package is the same for delegates from all countries, except for a Japan Observers fee of $100.
For all others, the registration fee covers administrative and program costs of the conference, housing in Japanese host homes for up to five nights (Monday through Friday nights), meals for the same period, and airport arrival and departure transportation on standard arrival (May 10 or 11) and departure (May 15) days.
Upon approval of each application, the Tokyo 2010 planning committee will send a registration invoice along with further information. Payment is preferred by PayPal or Credit Card, although checks are also accepted. If some desire to pay by cash upon arrival at the conference registration, specific approval is required.
DELEGATE INSTRUCTIONS
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SPONSORING ORANIZATIONS AND NETWORKS
Planning for the Global Mission Consultation & Celebration - From Edinburgh to Tokyo has taken place under the leadership of a Planning Committee and particularly a partnership of regional mission networks, including the Third World Missions Association (TWMA - 1986), the Asia Missions Association (AMA - 1975), the Global Network of Mission Structures (GNMS – 2005), and CrossGlobal Link (Formerly IFMA founded in 1917). At the Asia Missions Association meeting in late 2006, in Ephesus, Turkey, Dr. Ralph Winter presented the vision of the Global Network of Mission Structures (GNMS) for a 2010 meeting in the pattern of and in celebration of Edinburgh 1910. Then further, in early 2007 at the Third World Mission Association Executive meeting at Portland, Oregon, USA, the strong conviction of the Holy Sprit continued to urge us to believe that now is the time for the formal initiative to take place under the joint auspices of “international” associations of mission agencies.
Dr. Obed Alvarez serves as conference chairperson and Dr. Hisham Kamel serves as the conference coordinator.
BOARD OF REFERENCE
Rev Dr. Penya Baba - Mission Consultant
Professor Peter Beyerhaus, Th.D, DD - Professor of Missiology at Tuebingen University, Germany
Dr. David J. Cho - Founder of Asia Missions Association
Dr. David Hesselgrave - Professor Emeritus of Mission, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois
Dr. Sam Kameleson - President Emeritus' of Friends' Missionary Prayer Band, Vice President of World Vision (Retired)
Rev. Dr. Sang-bok David Kim - WEA Chairman; Senior Pastor, Hallelujah Community Church, Korea
Dr. Paul Pierson - Dean Emeritus, School of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary
Dr. Rev. Philip Teng -- Honorary Presidents of China Graduate Theological Seminary and Alliance Bible Seminary in Hong Kong; Honorary Chairman of the Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelism
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Alvarez, Obed
Anyyomi, Seth
Barau, Gabriel
Bogosian, David
Boyce, Emerson
Cho, Yong
Hupp, David
Hupp, Mary
Inafuku, Elmer
Kamel, Hisham
Kim, Chong
Newell, Marvin
Okuyama, Minoru
Parsons, Greg
Smith, Don
Winter, Barbara
The Japan Host Committee is responsible for all the arrangements in Tokyo for the conference:
REGIONAL AND NATIONAL ENDORSING ASSOCIATIONS AND NETWORKS
(Partial List)
Evangelical Association of the Caribbean
Faith2Share Network
GEMA - Ghana Evangelical Missions Association
India Missions Association
Japan Missions Association - JMA
Korean World Missions Association
Movement for Africa National Initiatives (MANI)
NEMA - Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association
Philippines Mission Association
Singapore Centre for Global Missions
US Center for World Mission
The Mission Exchange
WENSA (World Evangelisation Network of South Africa)
AMTM - Associação de MissõesTransculturais Brasileiras (Brazil)
Tentmakers International
For your organization or network to endorse Tokyo 2010, contact us at info@tokyo2010.org
REGIONAL OFFICES
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Conference Coordinator – Dr. Hisham Kamel – acckamel@aol.com
Planning Committee Chair – Dr. Yong Cho – dr.yongcho@gmail.com
Japan Host Committee – Dr. Minoru Okuyama - tokyo2010host@gmail.com
Conference Administrator – Mr. David Hupp – davidh@tokyho2010.org
North American Phone Contact – 1-626-398-2134
Fax Number – 1-626-445-6071
Mailing Address: Tokyo 2010 Global Consultation, %U.S. Center for World Mission, 1605 Elizabeth Street, Pasadena, CA 91104 - USA
PayPal Account: register@tokyo2010.org
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