Friends in the Mission of God: Relationship in Four Stories of Evangelical Mission History

This is an abridged version of Doug Birdsall’s thesis ‘Conflict and Collaboration’. It explores four stories of evangelical mission history in the late twentieth century. It takes as its starting point the year 1974, when the historic International Congress on World Evangelization was held in Lausanne, Switzerland. It records the interaction of the Lausanne Movement with the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF) and continues to tell the story of Lausanne’s interaction with the International F...