David Hall, the director of visionnetwork's New Zealand partner Missions Interlink who attended the conference, commented: "I may be wrong, but my guess is that history will likely record this as the launch of the Chinese missions movement. He said others expressed similar thoughts: Just as the UK served as the catalyst for North American missions, so today Korea - which sends out more missionaries than any other country apart from the United States - is serving as the catalyst to ignite a missions movement from China. "Who knows the long-term impact this could have around the world in the years to come?!" Mr Hall said.

The congress focused on prayer movements; reaching unengaged unreached peoples; the oral Bible (two-thirds of the world's unreached cannot be effectively reached through written communication); evangelism; church planting; and compassion (poverty, injustice, illiteracy, water, medical and crises response).

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1. David Hall makes this comment

   Friday 19 June, 2009

   At the end of the first paragraph someone changed my report to read: "...85% of the world's missions." That should be "...85% of the world's missionaries." This may seem like a small thing, but it's actually a very important distinction. I would also like to note that my report did NOT include the stats of the commitments made. The reason is that, while the stats may be a good indication of what people prayed over and committed to, history indicates that often these are more optimistic than realistic. On the other hand I should point out two more facts: (1) these figures only represent 3/4 of the commitments made, and (2) many of us didn't even fill out a commitment. For example my roommate who works with Campus Crusade in Florida on an internet project that is reaching thousands each day (in what we would typically call a "closed" country), said he didn't fill out a commitment form because it would so inflate the numbers that it would make them look all the more unbelievable.