Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization

=== Outcomes of Lausanne I ===
The [[Lausanne Covenant]] arose as a result of the congress. It defined the necessity and goals of evangelization, unified evangelicals from diverse backgrounds and shaped much of their endeavors for the rest of the century. The [[Lausanne Covenant|Covenant]] was drafted by an international committee chaired by [[John Stott]] and publicly signed by leaders and participants at [[First International Congress on World Evangelization|Lausanne I]].

Secondly, [[First International Congress on World Evangelization|Lausanne I]] highlighted the subject of [[unreached people group]]s (UPGs). Acclaimed as ‘one of the milestone events in missiology’, [[Ralph D. Winter|Ralph Winter's]] plenary address in 1974 introduced the now widespread term. At a crucial point in church history, [[Ralph D. Winter|Winter]] contended that cross-cultural mission needed to be the primary task of the church, as thousands of ethnic groups remained without a single Christian witness and with no access to Scripture in their native language.

Thirdly, the global congress brought to the church's attention the topic of [[Integral mission|holistic mission]]. The congress urged the necessity of both [[evangelism]] and [[social responsibility]] in mission at a time when the church was facing polarization towards one or the other. The voices of Latin American theologians Samuel Escobar and [[René Padilla|Rene Padilla]] were among the clearest to be heard on addressing the issue. This created a significant paradigm shift in evangelical thinking at the time, and today the widespread acceptance of holistic or [[integral mission]], which incorporates [[evangelism]] as well as [[social responsibility]], can largely be attributed to the 1974 Congress.