Dear Editor,
While we were grateful for the coverage that en gave in January, February and March this year to Life ’26 mission, I must express disappointment with your negative presentation of it last month. Your article, entitled “Nationwide mission brings mixed results”, followed the publication of our Insights & Impact Interim report.
You did mention some of the exciting positive statistics: for example, that 49% of survey respondents reported at least one sign-up to evangelistic course during or after their mission or 38% of survey respondents reported one or more new people attending their Sunday services following their church’s mission. However, the presentation of the report as “mixed results” with the focus of your article on the number (or not) of “conversions” as if that is a measure of the success of the Life ’26 mission was theologically questionable. Sadly it detracted from the hard work of hundreds of churches and thousands of Christians who laboured to make Christ known.
