Lausanne Conference
On October 17, 2010, Olav Fykse Tveit, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches gave an address to the third Lausanne Conference at the invitation of Doug Birdsall. In the address he said, "we are called to participate in the one mission of God". The World Evangelical Alliance, its international director, Geoff Tunnicliffe, and other WEA leaders were involved at each level in the development of the programme of "Third Lausanne" and helped choose its participants.