Global Prayer Movement Database: Missions Mobilization: Early Streams: World Evangelical Fellowship
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History:
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS, WORLD EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP
& LAUSANNE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
EVANGELICALS
NAE's
HISTORY & LEADERSHIP
1929 - J. Elwin
Wright formed the
1941 - Wright made a tour of 31 states
interviewing evangelical leaders with the purpose of forming a national
fellowship.
Working in
Moody Bible Institute in
1942 - United
Action Among Evangelicals,
1943 - NAE Constitutional Convention,
Founders: Harold J.
Ockenga - first NAE President
J.
Elwin Wright - Executive Secretary
Charles M. Fuller
J. Edwin Orr
WORLD EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP
Revived from “dying embers”/ roots in the
Evangelical
See: http://watch.pairsite.com/gpm-ugle.html
1950 - International Delegate Conference
Hildenborough Hall in
Representatives from 12
countries, including the Evangelical
together with delegates from the NAE in
Lt. General Sir
Arthur Smith - Chair
NAE Commission on International Relations -
Harold Ockenga [Chair] and J. Elwin Wright [Ex. Secretary]
Purpose – “to
foment evangelical cooperation on a worldwide scale.”
1951 - NAE
founded WEF [formerly the Evangelical
Clyde W. Taylor - makes world tour in the
interest of evangelical cooperation,
as a result of the meetings held at Hildenborough Hall and
The initial
organizing meeting of WEF
John Stott - laid
out WEF's “main purposes”
Bishop Jack A.
Dain - took dictation from Stott
[Stott and Dain - leadership of the
Harold Ockenga -
Commission on Evangelism
Hugh R. Gough
[UK] - Commission on Christian Action
WEF Statement of
Faith incorporated concept of Biblical infallibility.
Pursued
status as NGO of the United Nations [tabled]
1952 - European Evangelical
1956 - NAE International Commission’s name
changed to the NAE Commission for the World Evangelical Fellowship “eventually
became the board of the NAE USA Corporation of the World Evangelical
Fellowship” [legal body in the
1968 - WEF
General Council Meeting,
Word “infallible” is dropped from WEF Statement
of Faith; European Evangelical
WEF offices moved to Lausanne
Shared
office with the International Fellowship of Evangelical
Students [IFES] - C. Stacy Woods
Woods becomes WEF Youth Coordinator
1971 - WEF calls for
a “world congress of missions”
1972 & 1973 - Clyde Taylor, WEF International
Secretary, “very actively involved” with Billy Graham in the planning of the
International Congress on World Evangelization - Lausanne 1974
Implications
of such an event for WEF
How
WEF might help in the
1969 - WEF's Theological Commission [Bruce
Nicholls & Ronald Sider]
1970 -
Theological Assistance Programme [TAP]
Aims of TAP:
“closer
cooperation between evangelical theological schools…”
“stimulate
evangelicals…in fulfillment of the Great Commission in terms and forms
relevant…to social change.”
1974 - WEF meets “immediately after ICOWE [
Notables present
at WEF meeting:
• Billy Graham
• Harold J.
Ockenga
• John Stott delivers report on WEF's
Theological Assistance Programe –
“theological
education should be critically reconsidered.”
WEF Association of Missions
formulated in response to Lausanne
Steering committee:
Wade
Coggins - EFMA
David Cho* -
*aka Paul Yonggi Cho - AOG International Pastor
Ernest Oliver -
Evangelical Missions Association, UK
Seven Units formulated
Research and Information Unit
published – “Bridging Peoples”
Published jointly by WEF Missions Commission
and Overseas Crusades [now OC International, founder Larry Keyes]
1975 - WEF
Theological Commission meets London Bible College
By-product
of meeting…
1980
- International Council of Accrediting
Agencies [ICAA]
“ICAA
operates under 'sponsorship of the Theological Commission of the World
Evangelical Fellowship.”
Purpose of ICAA:
• to serve as a medium for…collaboration
among accrediting agencies for evangelical theological education worldwide
• to encourage the development worldwide of programmes of evangelical theological education which embrace in one integrated whole the spiritual, behavioral, practical and academic formation of Christian leadership
7th
WEF General Assembly
Consultation on a Simple Life Style [one of
six consultations] sponsored jointly by:
• Theology and Education Group of the
• Unit on Ethics and Society of the
Theological Commission of WEF [Ronald Sider]
Controversial Issues:
1.
Considered a merger between LCWE [
A joint committee set up to explore “ways and
means” [for] cooperation between LCWE and WEF.
2.
Issue on WEF's relationship with the Roman Catholic Church
Waldron Scott [Navigators/ WEF's CEO] invited:
• Ralph Martin – “a leader in the Roman
Catholic charismatic renewal movement”
• Msgr. Basil Meeking of the
1980 - WEF Theological Commission holds
International Consultation on Simple Lifestyle
Publishes:
Evangelicals
and Development: Towards a Theology of Social Change by Ronald Sider
Lifestyles
in the Eighties: An Evangelical Commitment to Simple Lifestyles by Ronald Sider
Both published
by Paternoster Press -- official WEF publisher
[Paternoster would later publish Perspectives on the World Christian Movement
edited by Ralph Winter, US Center for World
1982 - WEF shares
offices in Wheaton, Illinois with the NAE
1983 -
Chaired by Dr. William Shoemaker, director of
the
Convened by World
Evangelical Fellowship.
Track
III – “The Church Response to Human Need” Tom Sine, Chair
Tom Sine
is New Age author and member of World Network of Religious Futurists;
Sine’s book, Wild Hope, was endorsed
by World Future Society and Jay Gary:
“Well, what shall we make of Trends 2000? Let
me introduce two books that I would recommend for the Christian community.
Here's a book called Wild Hope by Tom
Sine. One of the best, a futurist. A forward by Jimmy Carter here. It's being
read by all peoples of faith. The World
Future Society has endorsed it. Its an
excellent, a global analysis. Biblical theology and creative personal strategy
for encountering the needs and caring for the human community of the 21st
century.” [Jay Gary, Adopt-a-People Consultation, 1994]
•
Harold J. Ockenga - Fuller
Theological Seminary & NAE founder
• John Stott
• Bishop Jack A.
Dain
[Stott and Dain were both in the
leadership of the
• J. Elwin Wright - NAE founder
•
•
• Dennis Clark -
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
•
• Gordon Landreth
-
• Waldron Scott
[Navigators] - WEF Intn'l. Administrator [1974]
(WEF
International headquarters moved to Navigator's headquarters in
•
Wade Coggins - NAE/ EFMA
•
David Cho, aka Paul Yonggi Cho - Assemblies of God, International Pastor
•
David M. Howard -
InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship
WEF General Director
- 1986
Authored The
Dream that would not Die: The birth and growth of the World Evangelical
Fellowship 1846-1986
[The source of
this historical info on WEF]
“It
was an impressive sight. 800 Christians, who had gathered in Freemason's Hall, Great Queen Street, London, in
August, 1846, were standing to shake hands and sing the Doxology. They had just
voted to establish what has been called 'a new thing in Church history--a
definite organization for the expression of unity amongst Christian individuals
belonging to different churches… They called it 'The Evangelical
Alliance…'"
• Dr. Robert
Youngblood - WEF Theological Commission
•
Harry Genet - Christianity Today [Billy
Graham]
• Ronald Sider -
Christians for Social Action
• Tom Sine -
World Network of Religious Futurists
•
Peter Kuzmic - WEF Theological Commission
International
Board of AD2000 and Beyond
•
Luis Palau
•
Ravi Zacharias - wrote Forward to book by religious
futurist, Tom Sine’s book:
Mustard
Seed Vs. McWorld: Reinventing Life and Faith for the Future.
WEF's
Religious Liberty Commission [partial]
John
Langlois - chairman
Samuel
Ericsson- Christian Legal Society & Advocates International
Robert Seiple -
World Vision & Institute for Global Engagement
International Day of Prayer for the
Persecuted Church** [IDOPPC]
Steve
Haas
1960 - Billy Graham convenes “select group
from around the world to consider greater cooperation in world evangelism”
-
1966 - World
Congress on Evangelism -
1968 - World
Congress on Evangelism -
1968 - World
Congress on Evangelism -
1969 - World
Congress on Evangelism -
1971 - World
Congress on Evangelism -
1973 - Post
Congress World Consultation -
Twenty leaders from around the world
to consider if WEF could be the umbrella for
Graham recommends
that WEF be “revitalized and reorganized” to become the committee which serves
to facilitate
1974 - International Congress On World
Evangelization [ICOWE] -
Waldron Scott,
Navigators - speaks on “State of the Church around the World”
2000 -
Global Prayer Movement Database: Missions
Mobilization: Early
Streams: World
Evangelical Fellowship
