Lausanne Workplace Forum for Africa and the Middle East

Join us from 2–5 October 2025 in Accra, Ghana, for the first Lausanne Workplace Forum for Africa and the Middle East.

In recent years, many critical networks, events, and resources regarding faith and work have developed to address the challenge of overcoming the sacred/secular divide of work. The Lausanne Workplace Forum for Africa and the Middle East represents the Lausanne Movement’s most concerted effort to date to address the clergy/laity divide in the African and Middle East regions. 

This gathering will bring together all streams of the Movement to work together on this critical issue, and seeks to collaborate with the wide range of other faith-at-work networks and movements in existence around these regions.

One of the most singular aspects of the forum will be its deliberate representation of women and men from every corner of the workplace—at least 50% of the total participants will be from the workplace. This is in contrast to past formal discussions in the African and Middle Eastern regions about faith and work, which have often taken place solely between church leaders, theologians, and white-collar professionals, excluding the vast majority, whose voices have gone unheard. This includes blue-collar workers as well as the ‘no-collar’ workers, such as those working in the home, those working as volunteers, and even those who are enslaved. Here, their voices will be heard.

In addition to representation across the workplace, the Lausanne Workplace Forum will also intentionally choose participants across generations from all three Lausanne regions in Africa and the Middle East, as well as across 26 networks focused on pressing mission issues.

Participants will be carefully and prayerfully selected to ensure balanced regional and workplace representation. The application process will start in the next few weeks.

For questions or more information, please email: africa@lausanne.org