2:45 p.m. Robert
Reese, World Mission Associates, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania
Lessons in Mission from an African
Initiated Church: A Case Study of the Zimbabwean VaPostori of Johane Masowe
3:30 p.m. Round
Up: What We Have Learned
3:40 p.m. Business
3:50 p.m. Prayer
4:00 p.m. Adjournment
Held in
Great Commission Hall
Overseas Ministries Study Center
490 Prospect Street, New Haven CT 06511
Directions to OMSC: see www.omsc.org/directions.html.
Contact: Dwight Baker
at baker@omsc.org; (203) 624-6672.
Further Information on Presentations Scheduled for February
23, 2008
What do Majority World
missions look like? In what ways are they unique? Do they share a common
outlook? What lessons can Western missions learn from them? What do they have
to offer to each other? These are among the questions addressed by the
following presenters.
•
Andrew F. Bush, drawing
on direct participation with the founding of Harvesters Christian Fellowship in
1987, annual trips to the Philippines, interviews with HCF's senior pastor, and
correspondence, identifies strengths of a Filipino ministry working among the
very poor in Manila (http://daniel.eastern.edu/depts/missions/faculty.html).
•
Fohle Lygunda, founder and director of Centre Missionnaire au Coeur
d'Afrique based in DR Congo, addresses what is at stake in mission and presents
the means CEMICA has developed for mobilizing and training African Christians
for mission (www.cemica.org/RevFohleLygunda.dsp).
•
David D. Grafton, with experience as a pastor in Cairo, Egypt, and coordinator of graduate studies at the Evangelical
(Presbyterian) Theological Seminary there, examines Middle Eastern Muslim
evaluations of and reactions to Christian missionary activity to suggest
lessons for Western missionary outreach (www.ltsp.edu/faculty/grafton/index.html).
•
Gi Dae Kim, trained
as a veterinarian and founder of the Dandelion Community in South Korea, has
worked since 2000 in Cambodia, leading Community Health Evangelism, an
organization that seeks to integrate physical and spiritual ministry
(www.omsc.org/hearthfall2007.pdf).
•
Mike Mathambo
Mtika, a Malawian, provides an analysis and critique of the North American
evangelical church's social and ethical paralysis in the face of the HIV/AIDS
crisis and, drawing on the African concept of ubuntu, calls the church back to its early character of putting
caring for others first
(http://daniel.eastern.edu/depts/sociology/faculty.html).
•
Robert Reese, a church
planting missionary in Zimbabwe from 1981 to 2002, examines the message and
practice of an African Initiated Church that have led to its phenomenal growth
in membership during the past three-quarters of century so as to find
principles other non-Western missionaries might well choose to follow (www.wmausa.org/page.aspx?id=84727).
Registration
To register or obtain further information, contact
Dwight P. Baker at baker@omsc.org;
490 Prospect Street, New Haven CT 06511; tel: (203) 624-6672, ext. 306; fax:
(203) 865-2857.
Registration by February 18
is $15.00 ($10.00 for students); late registration is $20.00 ($15.00 for
students). Registration includes lunch and coffee breaks.
For
those coming from a distance, limited overnight accommodations are available at
the Overseas Ministries Study Center. Overnight guests may purchase meals at
the cafeteria of a nearby college or visit one of the many area restaurants.
Please e-mail for further information.
Information on EMS and Travel Directions
For information on the Evangelical Missiological
Society, the 2008 EMS Annual Conference,
or membership in EMS, go to www.emsweb.org.
For
directions to OMSC, see www.omsc.org/directions.html.
Contact: Dwight Baker at baker@omsc.org; (203) 624-6672.
