Luis Bush is an Argentina-born Christian missionary and the president of the Transform World Connections.

Early life

Bush was born in

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, but was raised in

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. In 1970 he graduated from the

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in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in

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and worked in

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for an Arthur Andersen Consulting in Chicago before deciding in 1973 to devote his life to

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. He graduated from

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in 1978.

Ministry

In 1978, he traveled to

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, along with his wife Doris, to serve at the Iglesia Nazaret as senior

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. Bush led the movement of missions called COMIBAM from

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during its initial phase and later served as

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of Partners International from 1986 to 1992, an organization that seeks to grow communities of Christian witnesses in largely non-Christian areas by partnering with indigenous Christian ministries. He served as the international director of the

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& Beyond Movement from 1989 to 2001.

The 10/40 Window & Transform World

He and his wife Doris coined the term ''

10/40 Window The 10/40 Window is a term coined by Christian missionary strategist and Partners International CEO Luis Bush in 1990 to refer to those regions of the eastern hemisphere, plus the European and African part of the western hemisphere, located bet ...

'', which focused on the region of the world with least exposure to

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.. (This link is to the map, which is part of an extensive cover story.) Transform World was the name given to the first global event in

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in 2005 when Luis was asked to serve as international facilitator for other related events processes. Throughout the 1990s,

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's New Life Church, at the vanguard of the

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movement through its close ties to C. Peter Wagner and Bush, had a mission of supporting Bush and initiating the Prayer Through the Window events, which had tens of millions of participants.

4/14 Window

Luis Bush also champions the term '' 4/14 Window'', which is a

child evangelism movement The child evangelism movement is an American Christian evangelism movement founded in 1937 by Jesse Irvin Overholtzer, who founded the Christian organization Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF). It focuses on the 4/14 window, which centers on evangel ...

term. The 4/14 Window is a global Christian mission movement focused on delivering children between the ages of 4 and 14 years old from oppression, deception, depression and destruction.Overview of the 4/14 movement

Later studies

Bush completed a

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Intercultural Studies Interculturalism is a political movement that supports cross-cultural dialogue and challenging self-segregation tendencies within cultures.John Nagle, Multiculturalism's Double-Bind: Creating Inclusivity Cosmopolitanism and Difference. Ashgate Pub ...

from

Fuller Theological Seminary Fuller Theological Seminary is an Evangelical seminary in Pasadena, California, with regional campuses in the western United States. It is egalitarian in nature. Fuller has a student body of approximately 2,300 students from 90 countries and ...

School of Intercultural Studies in 2003. The study of catalytic antecedents of today’s mission led to a World Inquiry conducted from 2002 to 2004 involving participants from more than 700 cities.

References

External links

Luis Bush Papers

AD2000 & Beyond Movement

Transform World 2020

4/14 Window
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bush, Luis Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American Protestant missionaries University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni American missionaries in El Salvador Protestant missionaries in El Salvador Argentine emigrants to the United States