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Announcing and Asian Christianity, Liverpool Hope University, will hold The Association of Polish Missiologists, Stowarzyszenie its third annual world Christianity conference June 11–13, Misjologów Polskich (SMP), was formed in 2007 and now 2010, on the topic “Christian Unity in Mission and Service.” serves thirty-three missiologists from the major universities Brief proposals for papers and panels are being solicited until and seminaries of Poland, including members from Katowice, December 18. Center director Daniel Jeyaraj is professor of Warsaw, Kraków, Lublin, Poznań, Opole, and Olsztyn. With history of missions and an IBMR contributing editor. For more leadership from president Jan Górski (Katowice) and vice information, contact conference coordinator Ursula Leahy, president Wojciech Kluj, O.M.I. (Warsaw), SMP promotes [email protected]. interdisciplinary collaboration in the study of missiology An international conference on the theme “Politics, Pov- and is the local affiliate of the International Association for erty, and Prayer: Global African Spiritualities and Social Mission Studies and the International Association of Catholic Transformation” will convene July 22–25, 2010, at the Nairobi Missiologists. Each year the association publishes Studia mis- Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, Kenya. The conference jologiczne, an academic journal that focuses on mission history will “provide a platform in which researchers on African and and theology, portions of which are now being published in African-derived religions and spiritualities encounter practi- English, Italian, and German. For additional information, go tioners of religious traditions and communities firsthand” and to www.misjologia.pl. will provide “information on beliefs and practices of religious/ Urban mission is the theme of the American Society of spiritual traditions and how they impact their communities Missiology–Eastern Fellowship of Professors of Mission and the larger society.” For details, contact program organiz- annual meeting, November 6–7, 2009, at Maryknoll Mission ers Afe Adogame ([email protected]), Ishola Williams Institute, Ossining, New York. Doug Hall and Bobby Bose, ([email protected]), Grace Wamue (gwamue2000@ respectively president and global urban ministries education yahoo.com), and Mark Shaw ([email protected]). coordinator of the Emmanuel Gospel Center in Boston (www Indian missiologist Siga Arles has announced expan- .egc.org), will be among the speakers. For conference informa- sion of the scope of the Consortium for Indian Missiological tion, visit www.asmef.org. Education and the Indian Institute of Missiology Research The Sociology of Religion Study Group (SOCREL, www Centre through the launching of a postgraduate research .socrel.org.uk) of the British Sociological Association will hold study center—the Centre for Contemporary Christianity, a conference April 6–8, 2010, at the University of Edinburgh on Bangalore. The center will offer master of theology and doc- the topic “The Changing Face of Christianity in the Twenty- tor of philosophy degrees in missiology and in holistic child first Century.” Brief proposals for papers and panels are development, with accreditation from the Asia Theological being solicited until October 31, 2009, particularly if these are Association and in cooperation with the Global Alliance for focused on “contemporary Christian performance and belief, Advancing Holistic Child Development. Arles, editor of the world Christianities and migration or Diaspora Christianities, Journal of Asian Evangelical Theology, is also developing a jour- (or) Christianity in the public arena.” The University of Edin- nal called Contemporary Christian. For additional information, burgh Institute of Geography and the New College School of e-mail Arles, [email protected]. Divinity are cosponsors. The conference organizers include Historical records, including financial reports, cor- Afe Adogame ([email protected]), New College lecturer respondence, committee memos and minutes, articles, and in world Christianity. newsletters related to the work of the Evangelical Committee The Andrew F. Walls Centre for the Study of African on Latin America are available at the Billy Graham Center

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Archives (www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/guides/646 Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia, as well as in Nigeria, South .htm). Founded in 1959 as a joint committee between the Evan- Africa, and Zambia. In 1965 he attended Vatican Council II as gelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies (EFMA) and Interde- a guest of Misereor Foundation. Beginning in 1974 he taught nominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA), the ECLA for over twenty-five years at the Institutes of the University of served as a liaison between the two organizations and Latin San Francisco, St. John’s (Jamaica, N.Y.), Yale Divinity School American church leaders for the effective growth of the regional (New Haven, Conn.), Weston (Mass.) Jesuit School of Theol- church, providing assistance through consultation, conferences, ogy, Maryknoll School of Theology (Ossining, N.Y.), Duquesne and research. The committee was disbanded in 1977. University (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Salve Regina University (which The Congregational Library and Archives, Boston, has included the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, R.I.), Nairobi’s compiled an index of obituaries of Congregational clergy and Institute for Development Studies, and Brown University’s (www.congregationallibrary.org/resources/ Watson Institute for International Studies (Providence, R.I.). necro-search). Patrons may search by last name to find obituar- He was the recipient of many fellowships and awards and ies in Congregational yearbooks and missionary periodicals, the author of numerous books and articles, especially in the most of them from after 1850. fields of missiology, ecclesiology, and social ethics. His noted books include The Church as Mission (1966), Polygamy Recon- Personalia sidered (1975), and Toward an African Christianity: Inculturation Appointed. Graham R. Kings, 55, vicar of St. Mary’s Church, Applied (1993). Islington, London, as bishop of Sherborne, U.K., effective Died. James III, Sinologist and theologian, June 24, 2009. After ordination Kings served as a curate in in , March 20, 2009. The great-grandson of mis- inner city London for four years. In 1985, as a Church Mis- sionary pioneer J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the Inland sion Society mission partner, he taught theology for seven Mission in 1865, he was born August 12, 1929, in Kaifeng, years at St. Andrew’s College of Theology and Development, Henan, and was raised in China. In June 1955 Taylor and Kabare, an Anglican Church of Kenya affiliate. An IBMR his family arrived in Kao-hsiung, Taiwan, to join the staff of contributing editor, Kings moved to Cambridge in 1992 to Holy Light Bible School, founded that year by his father. The become the first Henry Martyn Lecturer in Mission Studies in younger Taylor worked there as a lecturer before succeeding the Cambridge Theological Federation, founding director of his father as principal in 1960. In 1970 he became president of the Henry Martyn Centre for the Study of Mission and World the new China Evangelical Seminary in Taipei. From 1980 to Christianity, and affiliated lecturer in the university’s Faculty 1991 Taylor served as general director of the Overseas Mission- of Divinity. He founded Fulcrum (http://fulcrum-anglican.org ary Fellowship, now OMF International, the mission founded .uk), a network and online journal for evangelical Anglicans by his great-grandfather. He was the first Taylor descendant seeking to renew the center of the evangelical tradition within in this role, and under his leadership OMF saw growth in the Church of England. Kings served on the Mission Theological Japan, Philippines, and Hong Kong, as well as in publishing. Advisory Group of the Church of England and the Anglican In 1994 he formed Medical Services International, now MSI Communion Network for Interfaith Concerns. Professional Services, to bring teams of Western professionals Died. H. Eugene Hillman, C.S.Sp., 84, missiologist, author, into China to work on health and community-development and Congregation of the Holy Spirit member, in Bethel Park, projects. He is coauthor of a book on the life of Hudson Taylor’s Pennsylvania, August 5, 2009. A native of Boston, he worked father-in-law, Even to Death: The Life and Legacy of Samuel Dyer for eighteen years in the missions of East Africa in Tanzania, (OMF, forthcoming).

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