What connects WhatsApp, Apple and Google to Lausanne?

WhatsApp, Apple and Google can all be labeled as tech companies. The three giants do however also have a link to global missions.

Workplace ministry and business as mission were focus areas when the Lausanne Movement one year ago. Leaders gathered from all over the world to the Global Workplace Forum in Manila. The movement appointed a Workplace Ministry Advisory Board consisting of 65 faith-at-work leaders. The announcement came in an article marking the one-year anniversary of the forum.

Steward and propel

“The advisory board serves to steward and propel the movement launched at GWF. The board members are from over 20 countries. Members are leaders from some of the world’s most influential companies like Apple, Johnson and Johnson, WhatsApp, and Google. Robert Harp who authored the article, shares the news. He is the Lausanne Movement’s catalyst for workplace ministry.

Great move of God

He continues, “Billy Graham himself prophetically once said, ‘I believe that one of the next great moves of God is going to be through believers in the workplace.’ That ‘great move of God’ is happening now – all over the world, in cubicles and homes, from pasturelands to bustling cities, Christians in every occupation are awakening to the call that mission happens through everyone to everywhere. May it be so all the more!”

To empower people the Lausanne movement has launched a new Global Classroom episode on workplace ministry.

“We hope it will be used to equip and inform the global church toward furthering the integration of faith and work,” writes Robert Harp.

You can read Robert Harp’s full article here: https://www.lausanne.org/updates/one-year-after-gwf?utm_source=Lausanne+Movement+List&utm_campaign=bd81be1653-RSS_Best_of&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_602c1cb67d-bd81be1653-91690673

You can access Lausanne’s global class on Workplace Ministry here: https://www.lausanne.org/lausanne-global-classroom/workplace-ministry-episode