Noteworthy Announcing Personalia The Lausanne Movement Consultation on Arts in Mis- Appointed. Magdalene (Madge) Karecki, SSJ-TOSF, as pres- sion took place May 29–31, 2013, in Dallas, Texas, hosted ident of St. Augustine College, Johannesburg, , by the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and the effective January 2014. (St. Augustine, founded in 1999, is the International Council of Ethnodoxologists and cospon- only Catholic college in South Africa.) Karecki earlier spent sored by the World Evangelical Alliance and the Lausanne twenty-one years working in South Africa, first with a con- Movement. Participants in the roundtable discussions of gregation of Zulu Franciscan sisters, and later teaching at St. the past, present, and future roles of the arts in mission John Vianney Seminary and establishing the Office of Wor- and worship encompassed North American leaders from ship in the Diocese of Johannesburg. Upon returning to the academia, mission agencies, and churches—including in 2005, she became director of the Office for then OMSC executive director Jonathan J. Bonk—and also Mission Education and Animation in the Archdiocese of Chi- artists. Videos from the consultation can be accessed at cago. President of the Association of Professors of Mission, www.lausanne.org/en/multimedia/videos/arts-in-miss she also taught missiology at St. Mary of the Lake Univer- ion-videos.html. sity/Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois. A conference entitled Conversion, Caste, and Coex- Appointed. David Ro, as director of the J. Christy Wilson istence: Christianity in Southern India was held on Sep- Jr. Center for World Missions at Gordon-Conwell Theologi- tember 29, 2013, in Dallas, Texas, hosted by the South Asia cal Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts. The Center for Research and Information Institute (SARII) and the Asian World Missions seeks to foster a global vision within the Gor- Studies Program at Southern Methodist University. Abstracts don-Conwell community and to equip leaders in the global of the papers presented at the meeting can be found at www church. Ro succeeds S. Douglas Birdsall, who on March 1, .sarii.org/2013abstractsandbios.html. 2013, became president of the American Bible Society. Ro will The development and vitality of African Christianity continue to serve with OMF International, where his focus is are portrayed in a new two-part documentary entitled Afri- on emerging Christian leadership in , and with Lau- can Christianity Rising: Christianity’s Explosive Growth sanne International, where he is deputy director for East Asia. in Africa. Directed by filmmaker and author James Ault, the Died. Justice Anderson, 83, pastor, missionary, and films record the daily lives of individual African Christians professor of missiology, December 29, 2012, in Fort Worth, and the experience of worshipping communities in Ghana Texas. Anderson, who was ordained at age nineteen, studied and Zimbabwe. According to Ault, the films are intended first at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and earned his M.Div. to be of particular relevance for church and school audi- and D.Th. degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theologi- ences. DVDs of the documentary, along with additional cal Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. From 1957 to 1974 he and educational material, are available for purchase at http:// his wife, Mary Ann, were missionaries in Argentina, where jamesault.com/documentaries/africa-project/. Anderson served as church planter, seminary teacher, and Detailed descriptions of archival collections held by Baptist church leader. He subsequently became professor of thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and missions at Southwestern, where he directed the World Mis- archives, primarily in the United States, are accessible sions Center, founded in 1980, until his retirement in 1998. through ArchiveGrid, whose database is now freely avail- Anderson was the author of a number of books on missiol- able at http://archivegrid.org. Researchers will find infor- ogy in both English and Spanish, including An Evangelical mation about historical documents, personal papers, fam- Saga: Baptists and Their Precursors in Latin America (2005) and ily histories, and other archival materials, as well as contact a three-volume Spanish-language history of the worldwide information for the institutions where the collections are Baptist movement, Historia de los Bautistas (1978–93). kept. Died. Joseph Donders, 83, educator, writer, and social

208 International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 37, No. 4 justice advocate, on March 7, 2013, in Maastrich, Nether- England. Her research took a new turn in the 1970s as she lands. A member of the Missionaries of Africa and ordained examined Black Pentecostalism in England and its roots in in 1957, he began—while teaching philosophy and theology the Caribbean. She founded the Centre for Black and White at the White Fathers’ formation house in the — Christian Partnership, Birmingham, England, and was its working also in radio and television. In 1970 Donders moved director from 1978 to 1985. From 1994 to 2008 Gerloff taught to Kenya, joining Nairobi University's Department of Phi- at the University of Leeds, in England, before returning to losophy and Religious Studies, of which he subsquently Berlin in retirement. Her publications include A Plea for Brit- became chair. He was also university chaplain. In 1984 he ish Black Theologies (2 vols., 1992; repr. 2011); her account became the first director of the Washington-based Africa “My Pilgrimage in Mission” appeared in the IBMR in Janu- Faith and Justice Network, which advocates for social jus- ary 2013. tice for Africa. From 1988 to 2007 he was professor of mis- Died. Ross Oliver Langmead, 63, missiologist, activ- sion studies at Washington Theological Union, Washington, ist, and songwriter, June 29, 2013, in Melbourne, . D.C., retiring to the Netherlands in 2010. A prolific author, Langmead trained and worked as a schoolteacher before he received the 1979 U.S. National Religious Book Award for undertaking further studies in the 1970s at Lancaster Uni- Jesus the Stranger, an early collection of his sermons given in versity, , and Melbourne College of Divin- Kenya. His recent works include John Paul II: The Encyclicals ity, from which he also received a D.Th. in 1998. He taught in Everyday Language (2005). Donders’s article “My Pilgrim- mission studies at Whitley College, Parkville, Victoria, where age in Mission” appeared in the IBMR in April 2012. he become director of the School of World Mission and dean Died. Richard H. Drummond, 96, Presbyterian pas- of the Theological School. His publications include The Word tor, educator, and ecumenist, April 15, 2013, in Dubuque, Made Flesh: Towards an Incarnational Missiology (2004), and he Iowa. Drummond, who was born in San Francisco, received edited Re-imagining God and Mission: Perspectives from Aus- a Ph.D. in classics from the University of Wisconsin (Madi- tralia (2007). An advocate for local mission, Langmead was son) and an M.Div. from Lutheran Theological Seminary, founding secretary of the Australian Association of Mission Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He served as a mission educa- Studies, an active worker in refugee support, and a prolific tor in for ten years, before joining the faculty of the writer of songs about radical discipleship. University of Dubuque Theological Seminary in 1962, where Died. Steven J. Strauss, 57, missionary, teacher, and mis- he became professor of ecumenical missions and history of sions administrator, June 11, 2013, in Dallas, Texas. Strauss religions. Drummond’s History of Christianity in Japan, writ- earned degrees from Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee, and ten in 1971, is still referenced. His commitment to interfaith Dallas Theological Seminary, and his Ph.D. from Trinity Inter- dialogue was evident in his authorship of works that include national University, Deerfield, Illinois. From 1982 to 2001 he A Broader Vision: Perspectives on the Buddha and the Christ served with SIM as a missionary in Ethiopia, where he was (1995) and Islam for the Western Mind: Understanding Muham- assistant pastor of the International Evangelical Church in mad and the Koran (2005). Addis Ababa and taught at the Evangelical Theological Col- Died. Roswith Gerloff, 79, pastor, theologian, and lege. He also served on the founding committees of two other authority on Black Pentecostalism, during the night of July theological schools in Ethiopia. Strauss was director of SIM 28/29, 2013, at Potsdam Groß Glienicke, . Gerloff USA from 2001 to 2009. He returned to teaching in 2010, join- lived through the Second World War and postwar period ing the faculty of Dallas Theological Seminary as professor in her native Germany, where, between 1952 and 1958, she of world missions and intercultural studies. His publications studied at Tübingen, Göttingen, and Munich. An ordained include (with Craig Ott and Timothy C. Tennent) Encounter- pastor in the Evangelical Church in Germany, Gerloff served ing Theology of Mission: Biblical Foundations, Historical Develop- churches in West Berlin and Frankfurt, and in Oxford, ments, and Contemporary Issues (2010).

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