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The Watchword and the Year 2000: An Interview
Bimillennial Press: April, 1994
The awareness that the year 2000 would be a special season for Christ has been growing for some 20 years. The relationship between AD 2000 and the world mission of the church has particularly been highlighted since 1980 by the phrase, "A Church for Every People by the year 2000." On the 15th anniversary of the watchword, this interview was conducted with Jay Gary from his home in Colorado.
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The Bimillennial Era Has Begun
Jan 15, 1994
The time has come for the world to make the year 2000 what it is truly meant to be--the greatest celebration in the history of civilization--in honor of the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus.
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Celebration 2000: A Wake-Up Call from God
Jan 1, 1993
Celebration 2000 was established in 1992 as a national service center in Colorado Springs. Since that time this center has let the world know the reason for the season.
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AD 2000 Call Sounded at Lausanne II
AD 2000 Monitor: Aug 18, 1989
For ten days in July of 1989, 4,336 participants, guests and media gathered from 166 nations in Manila for the Lausanne movement's Second International Congress on World Evangelization. Undoubtedly Lausanne II did a masterful job in calling an ever increasingly diverse world of evangelicals to unity in mission as we enter the '90s.
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GCOWE 2000: The Meeting of the Century
July 1, 1989
It was called the "meeting of the century." From January 5-8, 1989, some 300 leaders gathered in Singapore for the "Global Consulation on World Evangelization by AD 2000 and Beyond," or GCOWE 2000 for short. It is now history. This page tells its story in pictures and the incredible groundwork it laid for what has become one of the most dramatic decades in church history.
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AD 2000 Global Action Plan
Jun 10, 1989
The following is a summary of the AD 2000 Global Goals document. The original document, "Kaleidoscopic Global Action Plan," was created by a 15-person working group, chaired by Dr. David Barrett, with me serving as secretary. It was presented to the Global Consultation for consideration. The complete document, revised with the input of the Consultation, was released through New Hope Publishers under the title, Our Globe and How to Reach It, 1990.
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AD 2000 Global Service Office
Jun 10, 1989
A significant moment in history awaits you. Futurists, trend watchers, and global planners have their eyes fixed on the year 2000. Christian leaders, as well are considering the possibilities for a "Decade of Evangelization."
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AD 2000: Passing Fad or Enduring Movement?
AD 2000 Monitor Editorial: June 1, 1989
World evangelization at the kickoff of a new decade? What is the AD 2000 movement really? Where is it headed?
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World Missions Leaders Pursue Cooperative Efforts
GCOWE 2000 Final News Release: January 9, 1989
"We believe that it is possible to bring the gospel to all people by the year 2000." "We humbly confess our pride, prejudice, competition and disobedience that have hindered our generation from effectively working at the task of world evangelization." These are among the declarations in a "Great Commission Manifesto" adopted by more than 300 Christian leaders from some 50 countries. Their unanimous vote, in a unison shout of "Amen!" came during the Jan. 5-8 "Global Consultation on World Evangelization by AD 2000 and Beyond" in Singapore.
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Tumbling Toward 2000: Evangelization movements enter the '90s
World Christian magazine, Jan 1, 1990
If recent history tells us anything, the turn of the centuryof the millennium, will galvanize attention around the world. The celebrations surrounding the American bicentennial, in 1976, the commemoration of the signing of the Constitution of the United States, in 1987, the forthcoming five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World in 1992: these will pale before the blaze attending the year 2000.
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