Actually the conference was hosted by the Bible and Missions Dept. of Trinity Granduate School, but sessions were held in the Olson Chapel at TEDS. I knew the conference was billed as a meeting of World Evangelization Issue Group 16 of the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, but I didn’t know that it would be such a high caliber conference too. My friend and pastor, Kerry Doyal, who is also a TEDS alum arranged housing with members of his former church and it worked out for him to preach there on Sunday morning before our return.
Of the approximately 45 attendees at the conference, about half of them were from outside the U.S. Several were from Australia, the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Africa, and a variety of European countries and Canada. The design of the conference was built around reading and rebuttals of academic papers, some of which seemed a bit heady, but most were very relevant and pertinent.
A few sessions dealt with the components and effects of postmodernism in various societies throughout the world, and a few of them dealt with the current and future approaches to dealing with ex-Mormans and ex-Muslims who are coming to Christ in large numbers.
Dr. Michael Cooper was the host (his dissertation was done on the Druids) and he convened a well planned conference which will be long remembered.
On a side note, I was able to photocopy about two dozen academic journal articles from the Trinity Library for use on my PhD dissertation at Temple.
