ICC Note: It often surprises people to hear that Indonesia contains the world’s largest population of Muslims. But what is perhaps even lesser known is the fact that the Christian church is also influential and abundant within the country, so much so that a once-in-a-generation gathering of faith was held in Jakarta. May we pray that God will use wonderful occasions like this one for the training of young Indonesian evangelists to bring forth the Gospel to many more millions of people in the world’s fourth most populous nation.

8/8/2016 Jakarta, Indonesia (Christian Times) – Approximately 1,000 young Christian leaders from more than 160 countries gathered in Jakarta, Indonesia for the Lausanne Movement event that takes place at least once in a generation.

The Lausanne Movement first took place in Singapore in 1987 and then in Malaysia in 2006. That makes the Younger Leaders Gathering 2016 (YLG2016) held Aug 3-10 as only the third of such event. The participants invited would be trained in various ways to prepare them as future leaders for a global mission. The event also serves as a “springboard” for an initiative and a ten-year commitment called the Younger Leaders Generation (YLGen).

This year’s theme, “United in the Great Story,” takes a look at how people from across the continent and across history could be part of God’s “Great Story.”

Richard Coleman, speaker care coordinator and the event’s co-emcee with Sarah Breuel, another member of the YLG planning team, talked about how today’s environment places millennials under constant “pressure to follow feelings and the culture at the expense of millennia-old truths.”