Why was Tokyo chosen as a venue?
Recognizing that two-thirds of evangelicals are from the non-Western world, it was deemed fitting by the planning committee that the venue for a follow-up consultation to Edinburgh 1910 should be in a non-Western nation. Since the Japan Evangelical Missions Association already had experience in hosting a global gathering of mission agencies in Kyoto, Japan in 1999 in connection with the Third World Missions Association, they offered to handle local logistics and to raise significant finances for the Global Mission Consultation. Hosting the conference in Japan also has the added benefit of being a mission-field context in which the indigenous church itself might be strengthened by the consultation in the area of mission and national discipleship. This will take place primarily during the evenings in which plenary sessions will be open to the Japanese church, specifically pastors and church leaders. There will also be a series of workshops in Japanese for the Japanese church during the d
