"Hope for the World" represents a new resolve and commitment to the global context for the ministry of the church. Missions, evangelism and theological education too often seem ill prepared to face the despair commonly shared by the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The essays in this volume, by respecting the specific contexts of doing ministry, hold out hope as an evangelical antidote to despair. The theologies of hope mapped out here demand that the church live out a vulnerability shaped by the truth of the cross.