Mission Focus: Annual Review 2010

Sarah Thompson writes on the Ghana Mennonite Church wrestling with issues of identity in the context of AICs around, with whom north American Mennonites also have close ties;

Tim Lind converted one of his Kinshasa Letters into a very evocative article contrasting doing and thinking theology from a Francophone Congolese perspective, with the recently published mapping of the killings during the protracted civil war, one mass grave next to a Mennonite church.

David A Shank submitted two pieces on his early learning in mission last spring before his deat and they are published posthumously.

César Moya (guest instructor at AMBS from Ecuador and Colombia) adapted his presentation to a Theology of the Church class as a way to understand some "ecclesiologies of resistance" in Latin America.

Mark Jantzen wrote a long piece on the MCC East/West program of building a "tenuous bridge" to those our culture taught us was the enemy

Dorothy Yoder Nyce raises numerous themes to probe about Edinburgh 1910 as it played in India, especially in the Mennonite Church of India, as preparation for seeing what has changed and what persists at Edinburgh 2010

There are reviews of six books about missional church, including one authored by Dave Boshart and reviewed by Jamie Lynn Ross (AMBS student).

Read Walter Sawatsky's editorial in this issue.