Dr David Williams is Principal of St Andrew’s Hall, Church Missionary Society-Australia, and a member of the faculty at Ridley College, Melbourne. He and his family served as missionaries in Nairobi where David was Principal of Carlile College. He helped the College to establish a specialist urban mission training programme based in Kibera slum, one of the largest informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa.
According to reliable sources the leading edge of growth in the global church is through movements to Christ from other religious backgrounds. This is not uncontested however. This opinion is the first of two exploring these movements from different perspectives.
