End Notes

  1.  See Lausanne’s Listening Call Report highlighting the importance of engaging the next generation: https://lausanne.org/l4/global-listening/the-evangelical-church-interacting-between-the-global-and-the-local. Also see article entitled, ‘Engaging an Emerging Generation of Global Mission Leaders: Embracing the challenge of partnerships’ by Nana Yaw Offei Awuku in the November 2016 issue of Lausanne Global Analysishttps://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2016-11/engaging-an-emerging-generation-of-global-mission-leaders.
  2. Editor’s Note: See article entitled, ‘Engaging Younger Generations in Church Ministry: Disconnects and approaches for passing the baton’ by Victor Lee in the January 2023 issue of Lausanne Global Analysishttps://lausanne.org/content/lga/2023-01/engaging-younger-generations-in-church-ministry
  3. Sam Kim, ‘A Historic Gospel Opportunity: Why loneliness reminds us that we all need God’, Seminary Now, https://seminarynow.com/pages/blog?p=a-historic-gospel-opportunity.
  4. ‘2018 Cigna U.S. Loneliness Index’, Cigna, accessed September 19, 2023, https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8294451-cigna-us-loneliness-survey/docs/IndexReport_1524069371598-173525450.pdf.
  5. Kessler RC, Angermeyer M, Anthony JC, et al. ‘Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization’s World Mental Health Survey Initiative’, World Psychiatry, 2007 6(3): 168-176. See also: CDC About Mental Health – https://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/learn/index.htm#print.
  6. Sam Kim, ‘A Historic Gospel Opportunity: Why loneliness reminds us that we all need God’, Seminary Now, 9 January 2023, https://seminarynow.com/pages/blog?p=a-historic-gospel-opportunity.