The World Evangelical Alliance has commissioned two new leaders to take forward its work in the areas of poverty and religious liberty.
The Rev Dr Joel Edwards, former head of the Evangelical Alliance in the UK, was the first to be commissioned at the WEA’s General Assembly on Sunday as the new international director of Micah Challenge, a worldwide movement of Christians lobbying their government to do more to meet the Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme global poverty by 2015. Micah Challenge is a WEA collaboration with the Micah Network of Christians advocating on behalf of the poor within NGOs and government bodies.