Events taking place in 2010 are listed below according to region. If you want to know more about events of the past years please visit our events archive.

 

[January 18-25, 2010]

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Churches around the world traditionally mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity from 18 to 25 January in the octave between the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul, although some local contexts choose to celebrate it around the Feast of Pentecost. The global organisers (the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity and the World Council of Churches) of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity asked Scotland to host the week in 2010 to mark the centenary of the first world mission conference that met in Edinburgh.

Scottish churches are also involved in celebrations for the anniversary of the 1910 conference on the theme, "Witnessing to Christ today". Scotland therefore suggested as the theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2010, "You are witnesses to these things" (Luke 24:48).

Resources and more information are available here.

 

[October 16-25, 2010] Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA

Lausanne III: Cape Town 2010

At the urging of evangelical leaders worldwide, the Lausanne Movement, with the participation of the World Evangelical Alliance, will host the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa, 16-25 October 2010.  Cape Town 2010 will provide a global forum "before, during and after the Congress" in which leaders from around the world will explore issues facing the Church and God´s world.  Then together, leaders will prayerfully seek God´s guidance in responding so that God´s name may be honoured and many more men, women and young people will be able to hear and respond to the message of Christ presented in a relevant and culturally appropriate manner.  It is anticipated that over 4,000 leaders from 200 countries will attend Cape Town 2010.  The Participant Selection Team, made up of leaders worldwide, has established specific criteria to ensure that the Congress will include men and women from a broad spectrum of nationalities, ethnicities, ages, occupations and denominational affiliations. More details are found at www.lausanne.org.

 

 

[January 6-10, 2010] Kolkata, INDIA

Youth Assembly of National Council of Churches of India 

National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) is the Ecumenical Forum representing the vision and mission of more than 13 million people from Protestant and Orthodox Churches of India. The activities or the programmatic expressions of NCCI are carried out through the various Commissions. Commission on Youth (COY) is one of the seven commissions of NCCI which facilitates and promotes national ecumenical youth movement.

Commission on Youth tries to understand opportunities and challenges faced by the youth in their respective Church and society. It tries to respond to social issues and commit them for a meaningful social engagement. In order to strengthen and promote ecumenical youth participation and leadership, NCCI-COY plans to organize a National Ecumenical Youth Assembly (NEYA) based on the theme Come, Let's be Friends, from 6-10 January 2010 in St.Thomas School, Kolkata, India. 2010 is also the centenary year of the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh 1910. Commemorating the centenary year, Ecumenical Youth Assembly will also be reflecting to identify new and creative perspectives in the direction of ecumenical mission in the 21st century.

Come, Let’s Be Friends, is a universal beckoning by the young people to the whole of humanity. It is a call to renew and revitalize their tampered and broken relations with their fellow beings, nature and the creator. Throughout history humanity has been connected through various relations, but the one relation that is best cherished by everyone is the relationship of friendship. Commission on Youth offers friendship as a new and inclusive paradigm of relation to ecumenism for relating with the whole of creation. It believes that friendly relation alone will bind and unite all humanity together. National Ecumenical Youth Assembly targets to gather hundreds of youth from different Christian denominations and religious traditions from around the world, for more details please visit the assembly website.

 

[January 13-15, 2010] Pune, INDIA

Consultation of the Centre for Mission Studies, Union Biblical Seminary

'Give Us Friends' is the theme of the annual consultation of the Centre for Mission Studies at Union Biblical Seminary, Pune, India on 13-15 January 2010. That plea was made by the Indian delegate to Edinburgh 1910 V.S. Azariah, and the consultation will taking an Indian perspective on 'Edinburgh 1910 One Hundred Years Later'. The organisers are using the study themes identified by Edinburgh 2010 and have put out a call for papers.

A report on the consultation can be downloaded here.

 

[May 11-15, 2009] Tokyo, JAPAN

Global Mission Consultation & Celebration

The Global Mission Consultation & Celebration will feature evening sessions of local `celebrations´ open to local churches in Japan. But during the day it will be a very serious `consultation´ of mission executives and mission leaders

Because, as in 1910, all participants will be delegates chosen and sent by mission agencies, no one will be invited as a person. Tokyo churches are hosting the meeting. This meeting is thus far officially sponsored by various regional and global associations of mission agencies: the Asia Missions Association (AMA), the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America (IFMA-Canada, USA, Mexico, and some Caribbean nations), the Global Network of Mission Structures (GNMS, founded in 2004 at Amsterdam), and the Third World Mission Association (TWMA). The intention is to gain the sponsorship of as many national level associations as possible who can encourage their mission-agency members to send delegates. See www.tokyo2010.org for more information.

 

[January 27-29, 2010] Aarhus, DENMARK

Church and Mission in a Multireligious Third Millenium, International Conference at Aarhus University

Globalisation, secularisation and the return of religion have led to pluralisation of the religious landscape, the result of which is the reigning multireligiosity so dominant in Western and other societies. This situation has given a totally new dynamic as to how religions spread and interact and pose questions as to how different societies deal with the reigning religious pluralism. Christian churches have been challenged to adapt to new situations. Because the concept of mission has come under scrutiny from postcolonial studies, and because the study of mission has been renewed in the direction of intercultural studies or studies in global theology and world Christianity, the academic study of mission is entering a new era. In the year 2010 where we celebrate the centennial for the imortant Edinburgh 1910 meeting we want to look ahead and analyze the actual and future challenges. With this conference we bring together outstandig theologians, missiologists and others from many different contexts. Denmark is ideally located to facilitate a discussion between different traditions, the Nordic, the Continental and the Anglo-American. The conference will highlight the following themes: Ecclesiology and Mission, Church Renewal for the Third Millennium, Church in Cyberspace, The Future of Missiology.

Deadline for paper proposals: October 15, 2009

For more information on programme and registration please visit the conference website: www.teo.au.dk/churchandmission.

 

[February 4-7, 2010] Minsk, BELARUS

Christian Mission in the 21st Century. An Orthodox Perspective

The two-day consultation held in Minsk, Belarus, brings together 30 missiologists from Belarus, Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. The event aims to give an assessment of Orthodox mission in the 20th century, make an estimation of mission conditions at the present moment, and correlate the purpose of mission with the forms and methods used in Orthodox mission now. Themes to be presented and discussed include Edinburgh 1910 and the ecumenical movement. The consultation is organised by the Orthodox Mission Network CMS, in cooperation with St. Cyrille and Methodius Christian Education Center (Minsk, Belarus), St. Cyrille and Methodius Theological Insitute (Minsk, Belarus), and the Institute of Ecumenical Studies (Lviv, Ukraine).

A report on the consultation can be downloaded here.

[February 6 and 27, 2010] Haddington, SCOTLAND

Edinburgh 1910-2110: Past and Future. 200 Years of Mission and Theology

The Diocese of Edinburgh of the Scottish Episcopal Church presents Edinburgh 1910 - 2110 - Two conferences on 200 years of mission and theology to be held on Saturday 6 February and Saturday 27 February 2010. The aim of these two Diocesan conferences is to reflect on mission in the 21st and 22nd Century by considering how theology and mission have changed in the past 100 years.  They are timed as preparation for the major ecumenical conference being hosted in Edinburgh to celebrate 100 years since the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910. For more information and registration, please follow this link.

[March 12-14, 2010] Belfast, NORTHERN IRELAND

Jesus in the City 2010, 6th Urban Mission Congress

GATHER for 3 days with other urban Christians
SHARE worship, bible study, experiences, passions and challenges
BE encouraged, challenged, informed and inspired
HEAR from local projects, national agencies, each other and God
SUPPORT Christians working in urban contexts in Belfast
LOOK to the future

For further information please visit the event website at www.jitc.org.uk.

[March 20, 2010] Wishaw, SCOTLAND

A Day of Prayer with Fr. Gerard Hughes

SCOT, the Scottish Co-ordinating Team invites all those who are praying towards Edinburgh 2010 to a national day of prayer at Newmains Pastoral Centre, on 20 March, 10am-4pm. This day is designed to encourage Christians across Scotland to discover ways of praying for unity in the Church. Fr. Gerard, a Jesuit Priest, writer and broadcaster, will bring many suggestions for participants to experience and practice. For more information, download the event flyer and registration form.

 

[April 14-15, 2010] Oslo, NORWAY

Fjellhaug Symposium 2010 - Mission and Globalization

This conference, which focuses on the relationship between mission and globalization, will have a number of key inputs relating to Edinburgh 1910-2010. It is hosted by the Fjellhaug Mission Seminary in Oslo and includes international as well as Norwegian speakers.

Download the programme as a pdf file here. 

For more information on the symposium program and registration, please
contact the coordinator at Erling Lundeby.

 

[April 23-25, 2010]

Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC) Mission Leadership Forum

OMSC's semi-annual mission leadership forum scheduled for April 23-25 will revolve around the theme 'Edinburgh 1910: A Global Church Centenary Assessment. Where We Where; Where We Are; Where We're Headed'. Papers will be presented by Brian Stanley, Ken Ross, and Ruth Tucker. Edith Blumhofer and Jan Jongeneel will respond. Gene Green will lead the Bible studies. This is an invitation only event, attended by sixty mission and church leaders from around the world. For more information visit the website of the OMSC, Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB) or the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.

[May 24-26, 2010] Glasgow/Stirling/Edinburgh, SCOTLAND

Dana L. Robert
Frontier, Friendship, Fellowship - The Mission of World
Christianity since Edinburgh 1910

The 2010 Alexander Duff and Drummond Trust Lectures will explore three themes important for the shaping of world Christianity since Edinburgh 1910 'frontier', 'friendship', and 'fellowship' and reflect on their continued significance for twenty-frist century mission. Dana Robert, Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission at Boston University School of Theology, is a leading historian of Christian mission, and keynote speaker at the Edinburgh 2010 conference.

• Mission Frontiers from Geography to Justice - 24 May, 6 pm, The University Chapel, University of Glasgow
• Friendship in the Creation of World Christianity - 25 May, 7 pm, St. Columba's Church, Stirling
• Mission Visions of Worldwide Christian Fellowship - 26 May, 5.30 pm, Assembly Hall, The Mound, Edinburgh

For further information, download the event flyer, or contact Donald Smith at donald (at) scottishstorytellingcentre.com.

 

[June 2-6, 2010] Edinburgh, SCOTLAND

Edinburgh 2010 - Witnessing to Christ today

For further information click here.

 

[June 11, 2010] Oxford, ENGLAND

Edinburgh 2010: Be part of it!
Holistic Mission - Good news for the Poor and the Oppressed?

A one-day conference on Holistic Mission to help form thinking as part of the Edinburgh 2010 celebrations.

Arguably, holistic mission has been the most significant development in the church over the last 100 years. Different branches of the global church have reacted to the challenge in quite different ways: some stick tightly to the belief that mission is only about evangelism and church planting, some concentrate only on a social gospel, others wonder what all the fuss is about because they understand that Christianity is essentially an holistic activity about being Christ-like. For Edinburgh 2010 OCMS has been tasked with the challenge of developing an understanding of the place of holistic mission in the global church today.

To this end, OCMS is gathering together a group of practitioners/writers/academics, all committed to holistic mission in one way or another, to analyse how it has developed in different parts of the world in the last century and to engage with the underlying issues as they impact the church, para-church CNGOs, and the lives of individual Christians, internationally for the future. It will raise important, political, and sometimes contentious issues, as questions will be wrestled with concerning justice and the seeking of shalom in a broken and hurting world from a variety of perspectives.

The discussions, which are designed to help form thinking for and around Edinburgh 2010, and which will focus around a series of writings that have been commissioned to form chapters of a companion volume, will be held at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS).  All who are interested and concerned about holistic mission are most welcome to join, and for those who are not able, the book will be published before the end of the year as part of the Edinburgh 2010 Publications Series.

For more information please email Deborah Lake at OCMS.

[June 11-13, 2010] Liverpool, ENGLAND

Conference on World Christianity: "Christian Unity in Mission and Service"

The Andrew F. Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity at Liverpool Hope University are pleased to announce their thrid annual conference on World Christianity from 11th June to 13th June 2010 and invite paper and panel proposals on a specific topic related to the theme of the conference, "Christian Unity in Mission and Service".

During 19-23 March 1860, the Protestant churches in Liverpool hosted the first world missionary conference, consisting of 126 representatives of various British Protestant missionary societies. The participants discussed various plans of missionary labour at home and abroad in order to identify the theoretical and practical implications for Christian witness and service in their times. The participants enjoyed in the fact of their close theological union and practical co-operation at home and abroad. Fifty years later, the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh expanded these and many other aspects of Christian witness and service.

The churches in Liverpool have tried to continue their ecumenical witness. The Anglican and the Roman Churches have created several examples of living ecumenism. They jointly worked towards for the formation of Liverpool Hope University combining their colleges of higher education. The conference on Unity in Mission and Service will investigate various ecumenical contributions of Christians in Liverpool for 150 years. It will be held at the Andrew Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity and invite scholars from different parts of the world to reflect on other models of living ecumenism. This conference will involve not only Christian missiologists and theologians, but scholars from Christian and non-Christian backgrounds, and it will be organized in close collaboration with the organizers of the Edinburgh 2010.

Full Panel Proposals are due on or before Friday 18th December 2009: Please send a 500-word abstract of the panel theme plus a 200-word abstract for each paper presenter in your panel. Individual Paper Proposals are due on or before Friday 18th Dezember 2009: Please send a 200-word abstract and a two-page CV including your name, institutional position or affiliation, postal address, telephone number(s), and email address. The organizers will inform the prospective paper presenters and panelists whether or not their proposals can be accomodated on or before Friday, January 29, 2010.

For more information on the conference click here, or download the registration form. If any additional details are needed, kindly contact the Conference Coordinator Ms Ursula Leahy at leahyu (at) hope.ac.uk.

 

[June 16-18, 2010] Dublin, IRELAND

From World Mission to Interreligious Witness - Visioning Ecumenics in the 21st Century

The Irish School of Ecumenics and the theological journal Concilium are pleased to announce the international conference: ‘From World Mission to Interreligious Witness: Visioning Ecumenics in the 21st Century’, which will take place at Trinity College Dublin from 16-18 June 2010. The conference seeks to explore and examine the following three-fold trajectory:
 
1)      From World Mission to World Christianity and Beyond
2)      Cultures of Faith and Public Theology: Ecumenical Witness
3)      Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Witness.
 
For further information, download the event flyer, call for papers or click on the following link:
http://www.ecumenics.ie/research/visioning-21st-century-ecumenism/2010-conference/.

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to ask Dr. Peter Admirand at Dublinecumenics2010 (at) tcd.ie

 

[June 19-25, 2010] Iona, SCOTLAND

Beyond 1910: the challenge facing today’s churches

Event organised by the Iona Community. With Norman Shanks and a representative of the World Council of Churches. A chance to explore themes of mission, political witness and ecumenism in the light of the legacy of the 1910 Edinburgh International Missionary Conference. For more information please visit the event organiser's website.

[July 1-3, 2010] Edinburgh, SCOTLAND

Following on from the main Edinburgh 2010 conference, the Yale-Edinburgh Group for the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity will be holding its annual meeting in Edinburgh on the theme 'Consultation and cooperation in mission'. Details are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/div/yale_edinburgh/2010theme.htm.

 

[July 6-13, 2010] Strasbourg, FRANCE

44th International Ecumenical Seminar: "Mission and Ecumenism in the Global Village. 100 Years after the Conference of Edinburgh"

The year 2010 marks the centenary of the ecumenical movement, which began, significantly, at the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh. Concerned that disputes from missionaries' homelands were being imported to new soil and damaging the credibility of the gospel there, the first efforts to repair unity among Protestants had a distinctive evangelical and missionary purpose.

A hundred years later, Orthodox and Roman Catholics have joined the ecumenical movement, various churches have pulled out of it, and innumerable ecumenical organizations have formed at both the international and local level. In the 44th annual Summer Seminar of the Institute for Ecumenical Research questions about the interrelationship of mission and ecumenism will be pursued. How has the understanding of mission changed in the past hundred years? Mission has attempted to shed its colonialist influences, and now people who were formerly the objects of mission have become the subjects. At the same time, traditionally Christian lands are increasingly secular. How have relationships changed between the churches on different continents? Is justice or evangelization the main content of mission today? And what does all this have to do with ecumenical efforts to achieve the visible unity of the church? Are mission and ecumenism - and which mission and ecumenism - still linked or have they gone their separate ways? Is the unity of the church still essential to defend the credibility of the gospel? Is the mission of the church aided by ecumenical cooperation?

English and German are the main languages of the Seminar. Lectures and discussion will be simultaneously translated into and out of these languages. Participants may also express themselves in French in the plenary discussions. A French language discussion group will be set up if there is a sufficient number of French-speaking participants.  

For more detailed information on programme and costs, please visit the website of the Institute for Ecumenical Research, or contact Sarah Hinlicky Wilson sarah.hinlickywilson[at]ecumenical-institute.org or Elke Leypold at strasecum[at]ecumenical-institute.org.

 

[September 7-9, 2010] Oslo, NORWAY

Transforming Mission

Edinburgh 1910 highlighted a Western and Protestant view of and plans for mission in the Global South or the Majority World, to a very large extent without the participation of the Global South. One hundred years later the churches in Norway are going to 'turn the tables' and invite the South to evaluate the Norwegian churches and mission, giving Norwegian Christians stimuli and challenges for the way ahead.

The Norwegian churches are inviting a team of distinguished church leaders from the global South to spend a week or more in Norway for visitation and conversation at various levels and with various groups, culminating in a consultation on 7-9 September. Dr. Ken Ross, one of the initiators of Edinburgh 2010, will be one of the speakers.

 

[October 11-12, 2010] Swanwick, ENGLAND

Edinburgh 1910 - 2010: Towards unity in mission

• The Rev. Dr. Jeremy Morris (Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and a church historian who has written widely about twentieth century church history)
• Dr. Kirsteen Kim (Associate Senior Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University College, and Study Process Coordinator of Edinburgh 2010)
• Fr. James Hanvey SJ (Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Heythrop College, London, and a systematic theologian with particular interests in the Trinity and ecclesiology)

 

 

[February 25-26, 2010] Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA 

International Mission Conference

Red de Misiones Mundiales/ Comibam Argentina, Asociación de Seminarios e Instituciones Teológicas (ASIT), Programa de Entrenamiento Misionero Bi-vocacional y Ministerial (PEMByM) and Escuela Ministerial de Plantación de Iglesias (EMPI) invite to a three day mission conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Commemorating the Centenary of the 1910 World Missionary Conference, the consultation seeks to explore mission in a contemporary context. For more information on speakers, programme, costs and venue, please download the event flyer, event poster, or email Carlos Reyes M.

 

[April 26-30, 2010] Guatemla, CENTRAL AMERICA

Fifth Magna Conference of the World Mission of the Church - Crossing new frontiers... a great commission

The Central American Theological Seminary (SETECA) invites to a five day conference to inform, motivate and reflect on the worldwide mission of the church against the background of current challenges in Latin America. The programme includes papers given by Valdir Steuernagel, Joel van Dyke, and Guillermo Taylor. For more information, visit the conference website. or contact Professor Abel Morales at amorales (at) seteca.edu.

 

[January 7-10, 2010] San Diego (California), USA

American Society of Church History Conference

The annual Winter 2010 meeting of the American Society of Church History will be held on Thursday to Sunday, January 7-10, 2010, in San Diego, CA, in conjunction with the American Historical Association’s annual meeting. One of the panels will discuss and review The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910. The session will be chaired by Keith A. Francis (Baylor University). Speakers include Peter Phan (Georgetown University), Heather J. Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania), Jessican Ann Sheetz-Nguzen (University of Central Oklahoma). For more information visit the website of the ASCH.

 

[February 27] Deerfield (Illinois), USA

Diversity and Mission - 2010 Missiology Conference

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School invites to a one-day conference on 'Diversity and Mission'. Forty presenters (sociologists, anthropologists, missiologists, and other mission leaders) will focus on the ways in which gender, ethnicity, culture, and race are experienced and addressed within missionary institutions and through current mission practices. The involvements and experiences of women, African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and white Americans will be featured. One room will be devoted to Spanish language presentations, and there will also be a parallel track focused on Diverse Approaches in Christian-Muslim Encounters. For more information and registration visit the conferene website at www.tiu.edu/missionconf.

 

[June 18-28, 2010] Grand Rapids (Michigan), USA

World Communion of Reformed Churches, Calvin College

A celebration to mark the merging of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Reformed Ecumenical Council as the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) will be held at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan on 18-28 June 2010. More than a thousand people will gather for this event which takes as its theme, 'Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace' (Ephesians 4). Further details are available at http://reformedchurches.org/council.html.

[October 15-17, 2010] Nashville (Tennessee), USA

Rethink Mission conference

A coalition of missionaries and mission related personnel, primarily United Methodists with a passion for God’s mission, are organising an event at the Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, Tennessee on 15-17 October 2010. The planning committee consists of leaders of the missionary organizations, professors of mission and representatives of mission boards and Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville, Tennessee, the historic site for training missionaries and Christian education workers. The programme will include scope for interdenominational and ecumenical discussions drawing on the rich resources of the Edinburgh 2010 missionary conference. Participants of the official Edinburgh 2010 conference will lead off the sessions and selected study themes will be highlighted during the three days together. Time will be included for designing action plans to see ways to engage the churches anew.

Download a flyer for this event here.

 

[November 4, 2010] Boston (Massachusetts), USA

Debriefing Edinburgh 2010: A Conversation with Dana Robert

Professor Robert gives the keynote address at Edinburgh 2010, the centenary of the World Missionary Conference that spawned the World Council of Churches and the global ecumenical movement. Prof. Robert will share her thoughts on the many ways that things have changed and what is hoped for in the next 100 years. Registration is $40, which covers the cost of lunch and one continuing education unit (CEU). This event is held in conjunction with the Boston 2010 Student Conference. For more information visit www.2010boston.org, or contact sthalum (at) bu.edu.

 

[November 4-7, 2010] Boston (Massachusetts), USA

Boston Student Conference - The Changing Contours of World Mission and Christianity

Seminary students and faculty from all over the world, but particularly as based in the schools of theology, seminaries and university divinity schools of the Greater Boston (USA) area, will hold a conference sponsored by the Boston Theological Institute (BTI), the consortium of such schools. (A similar meeting was held in 1910 in Boston shortly after the one in Edinburgh.) The BTI envisions a conference that will come toward the end of 2010, offering a summation and analysis of the previous Edinburgh Conferences. The conference in Boston, with the theme The Changing Contours of World Mission and Christianity, will reflect the student and academic character of its setting. This conference will be an opportunity not only to interact with key mission leaders but will also include workshops welcoming student participation at a variety of points, particularly around the leading themes of the Edinburgh mission process. The goal of the conference is to discern a vision for what might constitute mission in the twenty-first century, a mission that stands in the trajectory of Christian witness from the earliest days of the church and is inclusive of matters relating to human flourishing, reconciliation, faith in the future and conducive of religious liberty. See www.2010boston.org for more information.

 

[June, 18-19, 2009] Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Mission and Unity: Then, Now, and into the Future

The conference 'Mission and Unity: Then, Now, and into the Future' will celebrate the centennial of the landmark World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh. The 1910 conference reshaped the churches approach to world mission, and also contributed to the emergence of the 20th century ecumenical movement. Topics to be covered include: an historical overview; a Biblical perspective; New Zealand women and overseas mission; ecumenism in the 21st century; a Maori perspective; the challenge of young people to the church; Christianity and world faiths. Panels will offer Pacific and Asian migrant perspectives. Among the presenters will be: Rev. Dr. Allan Davidson, Rev. Dr. Lynne Wall, Rev. Dr. Janet Crawford; Rt. Rev. John Bluck, Ms Te Aroha Rountree, Dr. Carlton Johnstone, Rev. Dr. Keith Rowe.

The conference will be held at St. John's/Trinity Theological College, 18-19 June. For more information contact Rev. John Roberts (Methodist Mission and Ecumenical) at mm-e (at) clear.net.nz, visit the website www.methodist.org.nz, or download the event flyer and registration form.