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Christ is Calling Us: Participating in suffering and struggle |
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The 35th Assembly of the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA) meeting in Molepolole in 2009 agreed to hold a Mission Conference with the view to discerning more faithfully what our missiological challenges are. Although the UCCSA has operated with a vision plan for the last four years, we have not afforded ourselves an opportunity for an in-depth missiological discussion to anchor our ministry and witness.
The conference will therefore open space for us to share, discuss and come up with ideas for acts of faith in our current context. The UCCSA as a church in five countries operates within a variegated and complex politico-economic situation that requires ingenuity, imagination and a spirituality that is at the cutting-edge. It can no longer be assumed that we know what the issues are and where we should be going, or that, in a constantly changing environment, that there is consensus on God’s mission for our times. Through the Mission conference we hope to establish a culture of theological dialogue that will inform our programmatic work as well as our ecclesiological trajectories.
The Conference is to be held under the theme, Christ is calling us: participating in suffering and struggle. It will be knitted around the spoken word and dialogue, prayer, reflection, fellowship, and hearing and experiencing stories of suffering and struggle. We hope that through this conversation we will be able to re-look at the use of our resources in such a way that it reflects our covenantal and justice ethos. In a world where the standard is determined by neo-liberal culture we have to seek just ways of using resources informed by our theological and missiological understanding.
The Objectives of the Mission Conference are: Create space for prayer, theological reflection and spiritual renewal Seek opportunities for immersion in the struggles of communities Listen to voices of ministry practitioners, political and social activists Develop life-affirming actions that will lead to an new accent in our missional expression Provide a platform for continuing missiological discourse that will inform behaviour, practice and the ecclesiological shape of the UCCSA in the coming months and years The Mission Conference will involve participatory processes that shall involve a movement from seeing- analysis- and leading to faithful action. |
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