Partnership for Missional Churches

Southern Africa


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20-23 September 2009: 5 Missional Years

The Partnership for Missional Churches started their journey in Southern Africa 5 years ago.  Diarize this date so long when we will celebrate this journey together and dream about the road ahead.

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OUR MISSIONAL PARTNERS

Some of you will remember that a team of us was invited to The Gospel and Our Culture Network Annual Consultation during October 20-22, 2005 at St. Paul, Minnesota.

We reported on our visit at www.missionalchurches.org.za. We had the privilege to meet with various institutions in Minneapolis. These institutions are doing marvellous work. Our team made a commitment to introduce them to our Southern-Africa partners. The idea is to innovate an ongoing learning and growing practice for the Missional Partnership. You may meet with our fellow colleagues at:
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PMC Southern Africa at 5 years! By Patrick Keifert

Geskryf deur Gideon Kok on . Posted in PMC - News

Chance encounters that later appear the work of the Holy Spirit leave me filled with wonder and gratitude. Take for instance a chance encounter at the Center for Theological Inquiry in 2000. My dear friend of blessed memory, Donald Juel, was taking a leave of absence from his teaching New Testament at Princeton, to work on his continuing project of messianic exegesis, the origins of messianic expectations in the various forms of Palestinian Jewish religion before the life and work of Jesus, our Lord and how they help us understand the New Testament record. He and I were working on a ten year project on the Bible and Theological Education funded by the Lilly Endowment through CTI. I was visiting him for our continuing work and he introduced me to Coenie Burger, a member of the faculty at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Donald, in his usual unassuming but gleeful way suggested Coenie and I might have some things in common. So, while Donald did some other work on our project, Coenie and I sat in Don's office and talked.
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Four missional conversions

Geskryf deur Frederick Marais on . Posted in PMC - News

What can we learn from the fist 5 years of SAPMC? 2004-2009

2009 is a year full of celebrations. We celebrate Calvin’s 500 birthdays this year.  At Stellenbosch we celebrate the 150th year of Theology. These are such big events that our celebration of the five years of PMC in Southern Africa is almost insignificant. It should serve us a warning that what we do this week is within a much larger historical perspective. In the tradition of H Richard Niebuhr I see my task not to give you a historical overview of events in the formation the founding and growth of SAPMC but to ask questions about God, and to be more specific about the in breaking of the reign of God into historical events, into the everyday life’s of ordinary people in Southern Africa.  I do this with great humbleness, it is not our history, it is not our church it is not kingdom, it is Gods story, the Kingdom of God and of cause Gods people.

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Living the Missional Calling - Day 1 Hope is in the air

Geskryf deur Frederick Marais on . Posted in PMC - News

Day 1 was a day of listening to incredible stories of missional breakthroughs.  The storytelling was honest and connected to reality, but at the same time it filled with hope.  More than once it was mentioned that there was HOPE in the air.

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Ritual in liturgical and missional perspective

Geskryf deur Cas Wepener on . Posted in PMC - News

Ritual in liturgical and missional perspective.

Professor of Liturgical and Ritual Studies at the University of Tilburg and director of the Institute for Liturgical and Ritual Studies, Prof. Paul Post, will be presenting a paper on liturgy in the context of modern sacred domains. This topic is not only of interest to liturgists thinking about the worship service, but to many others, especially also those interested in missional theology and praxis. Prof. Post will be doing a presentation whereafter there will be an open discussion with him. The morning will conclude with a book presentation where refreshments will be served.

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Missional Churches in Southern Africa Research

Geskryf deur Frederick Marais on . Posted in PMC - News

PMC is in 2009 five years active in Southern Africa.  We are planning a reasearch project to discern on the inpact the Partnership has made in our region and would like to invite Congregations and researchers to concact us for more detail.  Please contact Frederick Marais at Hierdie e-pos adres is teen spambotte beskerm, jy moet JavaSkrip op jou webblaaier ontsper om dit te kan sien   or Divine Robertson at 021-8083265

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