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A webinar held 22 October gave space for persons with disabilities to share their reflections. Entitled “From Lamentation to Transformation,” the event, first in a series of webinars on COVID-19 perspectives, highlighted hope through stories, practical support, and social change as experienced by persons with disabilities.

Highlights of African missiology will be explored during an event to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 13 February.

How much is the mission of the church related to people with disabilities? These days we talk a lot about inclusive societies and churches. But, have we arrived there? Are our societies and churches taking seriously the problems and challenges that people with disabilities face on a daily basis? People with disabilities find themselves quite often at the margins of the societies and even of the churches.

The Arusha Call to Discipleship is at once exhilarating, transformative and challenging to the point of discomfort for some, reflected leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) during a 20 May press conference and book launch in Helsinki, Finland.

El llamado de Arusha al discipulado es al mismo tiempo estimulante, transformador y provocador hasta el punto de ser incómodo para algunos, reflexionaron los líderes de la Comisión de Misión Mundial y Evangelización (CMME) del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) durante una conferencia de prensa y la presentación de un libro en Helsinki (Finlandia).

World Council of Churches partners in Arusha, Tanzania reflected on the realities in the communities they serve as they met one year after the World Council of Churches’ Conference on World Mission and Evangelism.

Los asociados del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias en Arusha (Tanzania), reunidos un año después de la celebración de la Conferencia sobre Misión Mundial y Evangelización del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, reflexionaron sobre las realidades en las comunidades al servicio de las que trabajan.

The Conference on World Mission and Evangelism officially closed with a “sending service” during which participants reflected on their call to discipleship and the significance of such a call in transforming mission in a world of pain, dislocation and turmoil.

La Conferencia Mundial sobre Misión y Evangelización se clausuró con un servicio durante el cual los participantes reflexionaron sobre su llamamiento al discipulado y la importancia de ese llamamiento para transformar la misión en un mundo de dolor, desplazamiento y confusión.

The marketplace - also referred to as a “sokoni" - became an opportunity for faith and community-based institutions to share what they do to improve the lives of people around them.

En los alrededores de la Conferencia sobre Misión Mundial y Evangelización (CMME), varias personas y grupos organizaron numerosas exposiciones de coloridos artículos para su venta: bolsos, ropa tradicional, zapatos, joyas y piezas de arte.

Thirty participants gathered on 9-10 March in a ‘warsha’ - or workshop - entitled “Building Capacity for Migration & Multicultural Ministries: From Chaos to Hope” in Arusha, Tanzania.
“Warsha,” a Kiswahili term, defines an arena for discussing new ideas that advance creative thinking, in this case on how the the church today can inform and inspire mission and ministry with the migrants.

A document published in Swahili language titled, ‘The Church: Towards a common vision’ was launched at the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism in Arusha, Tanzania on 12 March. The document is now translated into 15 languages.

La versión suajili del documento “La Iglesia: Hacia una visión común” fue presentada el 12 de marzo en la Conferencia sobre Misión Mundial y Evangelización celebrada en Arusha (Tanzania). El documento ha sido traducido a quince idiomas.

“Is our notion of discipleship inclusive of those who exist in the marginal spaces of our world?”, asked Adi Mariana Waqa, the keynote speaker of a plenary on the theme of mission from the margins at the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME).

In reports at the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism - being held in Arusha, Tanzania from 8-13 March - representatives from the World Council of Churches (WCC) offered their insights on the historic occasion and reflected on how mission is changing in today’s societies.

En informes presentados durante la Conferencia sobre Misión Mundial y Evangelización, representantes del CMI ofrecieron sus perspectivas acerca del momento histórico y reflexionaron sobre la forma en que la misión está cambiando las sociedades de hoy en día.

Economic justice. Equal opportunities. Care for orphaned children. More knowledge about mission and how it helps the church act dynamically.

Justicia económica. Igualdad de oportunidades. Cuidado de los huérfanos. Más conocimiento sobre la misión y la forma en que esta ayuda a la iglesia a actuar dinámicamente. En un intercambio honesto de sus problemas y esperanzas, 20 jóvenes indígenas de todo el mundo y de diversas tradiciones religiosas se reunieron en Arusha, del 5 al 7 de marzo.

Jooseop Keum is director of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. He is also editor of the Resource Book for the upcoming WCC Conference on World Mission and Evangelism in Arusha, Tanzania on 8-13 March. In this interview, Keum shares his thoughts on the deeper meanings of the conference theme, “Moving in the Spirit: Called to Transforming Discipleship.” He also communicates his hope for contributions, suggestions and criticisms to the new WCC mission statement “Together towards Life”.