United States (MNN) — Evangelism looks different in South America than in the Middle East, but the world around it comes down to the same thing.
“It’s sharing the love of Jesus, sharing the person of Jesus with other people,” says Ted Esler, president of Missio Nexus.
But our diverse world is also a fallen world, and it’s easy for churches and ministries to get siloed. That’s one reason Missio Nexus invites missions leaders to a conference geared toward collaboration. Echo: Amplifying the Need for Global Evangelism will happen September 24-26, 2025 in Orlando, Florida.
“Our superpower is really shared learning, and so that’s what we focus on more than anything else,” says Esler about these conferences.
For example, he says, a mission agency recruiter might come wondering about mobilization trends. They would have a chance to learn from hundreds of other agencies present.
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“We get together in a room [and then] we can talk about those things and help each one of those ministries lift their ability to serve,” Esler says. “It happens through sharing what they’re learning.”
If you’ve ever wondered what evangelism looks like across different cultures, Echo offers a chance to listen in.
“One of our speakers is a missiologist. She’s been working in Asia and she’s going to bring a discussion about contextualizing — or making the gospel understandable across cultural context,” Esler says.
Another speaker focuses on evangelism to secular or postmodern people. Still another speaker leads large-scale crusades in Africa, following up with church planting.
Find your place in the story
You’re invited to attend Echo if you’re directly involved with Great Commission work, whether in a church context or a ministry with global outreach. Registration details and a full event guide are available at missionexus.org/echo.
“[Missio Nexus is] the association that’s centered on evangelism, discipleship, and planting churches on a global scale,” says Esler. “We tie together all the missionary agencies as well as globally-focused churches into one group to try to increase relationship[s], push new ideas, and focus on collaboration.
“We’re like Lausanne, except most of our effort is aimed [at] helping the Church and the mission agencies from the US and Canada move out and do what they’re doing in collaboration.”
Header photo courtesy of Missio Nexus.
