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Mission FOCUS Contents Annual Review Editorial Mission FOCUS Contents Annual Review Editorial .. 3 Tribute . 7 2012 Volume 20 MENNONITE MISSIOLOGIES IN TRANSITION Editor Mennonite Central Committee: Missiological Shifts Walter Sawatsky and Continuities, 1988-2012 - Alain Epp Book Review Editor Weaver .. 8 Titus Guenther Mennonite Mission Network – Shifts in Mission - Stanley W. Green . 23 Consulting Editors What Changed at Eastern Mennonite Missions Since Lois Barrett 1988? - Nelson Okanya . 31 Hippolyto Tshimanga Rosedale Mennonite Missions’ Thinking, Praxis, Alain Epp Weaver Structure and Priorities - Joe Showalter . 38 James R. Krabill Mennonite Brethren Mission: A Brief Assessment of Alan Kreider its Mission Theology and Praxis - Ray Harms-Wiebe . 42 Address correspondence to: LEARNING THROUGH MISSION SERVICE Mission Focus: AND REFLECTION Annual Review Testimonials: CIM Member Agencies Transformed 3003 Benham Ave. 52 Elkhart, Indiana The Marcus Mission - Gerlof Homan . 73 46517-1999 USA Short Term Mission to Mennonite Churches in North [email protected] India - Jai Prakash Masih . 85 Congolese Church and CIM/AIMM Centennial - Send Reviews to: Richard Hirschler . 92 [email protected] My Pilgrimage in Mission - Byrdalene Wyse Horst . 104 Subscription rate: Accompaniment An Alternative Missionary Practice $10.00 per year - Willis G. Horst . 120 [email protected] Glimpses into a Rereading of God’s Mission - Willis www.ambs.edu/mission-focus G. Horst . 129 Serious Mission Partners in Eastern Europe: Mission Focus: Reflections on 20 Years of Post-communism - Annual Review is Walter Sawatsky . 144 published annually Henry Martyn’s Short Stint in India and Persia - Dorothy Yoder Nyce .. 169 BOOK REVIEWS .. 188-202 Seeking Places of Peace: A Global Mennonite History Series – North America, by Royden Loewen and Steven Nolt. Intercourse PA: Good Books, 2012, pp 400, 6 appendices with statistics. (Juan Francisco Martínez) The Jesus Tribe: Grace Stories from Congo’s Mennonites 1912-2012, ed. by Rod Hollinger-Janzen, Nancy J. Myers, and Jim Bertsche. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2012; 273 pages. (James Juhnke) History and Mission in Europe: Continuing the Conversation. Edited by Mary Raber and Peter F. Penner. Neufeld Verlag, Schwarzenfeld, Germany, 2011. (Peter H. Rempel) The Ethics of Evangelism: A Philosophical Defense of Proselytizing and Persuasion by Elmer John Thiessen. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2011, 285 pages. (Ted Koontz) Winds of the Spirit: A Profile of Anabaptist Churches in the Global South, by Conrad L. Kanagy, Tilahun Beyene, & Richard Showalter. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press, 2012. 260pp. Biblio. (Walter Sawatsky) A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story, by Michael W. Goheen. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. 2011. Pp. 242. (Daryl Climenhaga) BOOK NOTES .. 203-207 Worship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxology Handbook. ed. By Frank Fortunato, Robin P. Harris, Brian Schrag; gen. editor James R. Krabill. Pasadena CA: William Carey Library, 2013. 580pp, with DVD. www.ethnodoxologyhandbook.com. Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach their Kingdom Goals, by Brian Schrag; James R. Krabill, general editor. Pasadena CA: William Carey Library, 2013, 282pp (wirebound). www.ethnodoxologyhandbook.com. Going Global with God: Reconciling Mission in a World of Difference, by Titus L Presler. Morehouse Publishing, Harrisburg PA, 2010. Health, Healing and the Church’s Mission: Biblical Perspectives and Moral Priorities, by Willard M. Swartley. Downers Grove IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012. 2 appendices, bibliography, name and scripture index. 268pp. pb. Called to Mission, by Mirjam Rahel Scarborough. AIMM, 2012. Intersections: MCC Theory & Practice Quarterly. Winter 2013, Volume 1, Number 1, Compiled by Krista Johnson. IN MEMORIAM . 208-211 Editorial My work as director of the Mission Studies Center of AMBS, that started officially in the fall of 1996, included editing Mission Focus: Annual Review. It appears that the 2012 issue will be my last, although I anticipate that the journal, or something like it, will continue. My apologies for the lateness of its appearance, due in part to agreeing following my retirement, to edit another issue, but also due to several developments requiring more work or more waiting on other’s work, in order to present what may well turn out to be an important point of reference beyond the present moment. It had been my privilege to attend the annual sessions of the Council of International Ministries (CIM) in Chicago (since 1978) as part of program planning trips to north America, and I had come to view the CIM gathering as the best manifestation of Mennonite ecumenicity and of theoretical engagement with missiology from a broad range of scholarly disciplines. For the sake of serious thinking together, Wilbert Shenk in his capacity as CIM executive secretary, established sessions for major thematic presentations on issues that none of the Mennonite service and mission agencies could put together alone, and the joint exercise made clear to participants how much we shared in common. As a result, mission administrators learned to share what they were trying to do, what challenges they encountered and solutions they were seeking, in an atmosphere of collegiality and increasing mutual trust. I suspect my most worthwhile contribution while director of mission studies, was to bring a few student to the CIM consultation, where they were watching and being mentored by those leaders. The rest of the world might expect that the small ‘tribe’ of Mennonites or Anabaptists worked well together (especially given their peace commitments) so differences among them were minor. Not so. The formation of the Council of Mission Board Secretaries (COMBS in 1950) had been a deliberate structural attempt to cooperate where possible, and to set clear boundaries, particularly between denominational Mennonite mission boards and Mennonite Central Committee which as inter-Mennonite relief and service agency was expanding rapidly and also understood its work as holistic ministry, as did the mission boards. A reconfiguration of COMBS took place in 1967 when MCC board members no longer attended, instead general secretaries and area secretaries of the agencies met, preceded by sub- committees on continents where practical cooperation with partners in those areas were worked out. During Shenk’s tenure, he presented two historical/missiological pamphlets for discussion, which showed the progression of issues that dominated thinking and practice, cited major broad consultations where 4 Editorial common affirmations or findings statements had been adopted.1 So these enabled participant members, in the absence of common historical and missiological volumes on Mennonites in mission, to note phases of growth and development in Mennonite mission. Between 1988 and 1990 under the guidance of Ron Yoder as CIM executive secretary, member agencies (17 of them) prepared and presented statements of their mission thinking and practice, usually attaching a formal resolution from the Mennonite conference that gave the agency its mandate. These were published in 1990, together with an analysis and critique of all the materials by five missiologists, the entire volume edited by Calvin Shenk. The title claimed A Relevant Anabaptist Missiology for the 1990s, marking the increased use of the “Anabaptist” label as modern descriptor. So for this 2012 issue, I sent the following request to most of the 17 agencies: Would you please write a short (4-6 pages) statement conveying what has changed between 1988 and 2012 in your 1) mission thinking, 2) praxis, 3) structure and 4) priorities. On the latter, that includes partnership and relational priorities within your own global structures, toward MWC, and toward other inter-church relations. With the request I sent a page of background, with deliberatively provocative questions whether the mutuality in mission we claimed to seek (as early as a mission consultation in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1975) had increased, or the progressions were in a different direction. Since so many of the leading staff did not help write the 1988 statements, I also noted in background that in 1992-93 the CIM member agencies went through another round in which up-dated board approved mission statements were presented, analysed (by me in that case), and Ron Yoder lead us, together with a findings committee, to affirm a renewed commitment of cooperation. That was the background to the first GAMCO meeting in Guatemala in 2000, and therefore to the formation of the Mission/Service Commission of Mennonite World conference in Asuncion in 2009. In what follows you will see an opening section under the rubric: Mennonite Missiologies in Transition. There are only five essays, but they do represent major agencies who took the trouble to address the questions seriously. Given only a month’s notice, this required them to pull together what they had recently been formulating, and to do so in a mode that will permit comparative reflection. Readers are invited to offer their missiological assessments, in the expectation that there will surely be a bigger, necessarily more global venue for deeper conversations. There are commonalities, the 1 See Wilbert R. Shenk, An Experiment in Interagency Cooperation. Elkhart: Council of International Ministries, 1986; God's New Economy: Interdependence and Mission. Elkhart, IN: Mission Focus Pamphlet, 1988. Editorial 5 points of variance or even difference are couched
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