The Arise Leadership Summit opened Monday with a keynote address from Rev. Dr. David Ro, co-founder and executive director of Arise Asia, who urged participants to cultivate both public leadership and private spiritual integrity as Asia increasingly shifts from a mission field to a mission force.

Seth Kim, regional director for East Asia at the Lausanne Movement and co-founder of Arise Asia, recently shared in the Lausanne Movement podcast how a new generation across East Asia is rising with a renewed hunger for the gospel. Drawing from the legacy of the Student Volunteer Movement, Kim described how Arise Asia is equipping young people to lay down their lives for missions and bring the gospel to places where it has never been heard.

Seth Kim, Lausanne Movement’s Regional Director for East Asia, recently shared his reflections on gospel ministry in East Asia during an episode of the Lausanne Movement podcast. Drawing from his personal background and extensive experience in church planting, discipleship, and student ministry, Kim outlined the challenges and hopes facing the church in one of the world’s most complex and spiritually significant regions.

After a thirteen-year gap, the Nepali-language Bible is set to undergo a comprehensive revision.

Pastor Mark Chan, a Malaysian Chinese pastor serving across Southeast Asia shares his journey from inherited faith to a personal calling. Speaking about the spiritual challenges faced by believers in Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia, he emphasizes the urgent need to teach the full message of salvation and to call Christians into a life of true discipleship.

Prof. Sonia Wong explores how biblical trauma narratives might serve as pastoral resources for Asian contexts while emphasizing the need for critical evaluation.

Dr. O'Donnell challenges conventional Christian trauma recovery language, proposing "post-traumatic remaking" through radical spiritual practices that honor survivors' embodied experiences.

Mr. Yohanes Krismantyo Susanta presents a feminist and trauma hermeneutic reading of John 19:16-27, arguing that the stripping and humiliation of Jesus's body represent a form of sexual violence that creates solidarity with contemporary victims of trauma.

Dr. Xi Li presents a reading of Psalm 119 that interprets its co-existing lament and wisdom elements as negative and positive post-traumatic reactions to trauma experienced by the psalm's speaker.

War trauma shaped contrasting theological responses in Japan, with Kitamori developing divine suffering theology rooted in Bushido aesthetics, while Noro defended divine impassibility through relational engagement, revealing practical theology's tension between cultural contextualization and doctrinal integrity when addressing collective trauma.