Teachers of Mission

All teachers and trainers of missions and missionaries! We pray you are all well and having a great start to 2023. Our annual meeting of Teachers of Missions (TOM) will once again happen this year via Zoom. We are planning to have time together on the afternoon of March 31, from 3:00-5:30 p.m.

The first part of our time will be focused on the changes we are seeing in Gen Z (and soon, Gen Alpha (yes, that’s a real thing!)) and how this impacts our teaching, mentoring, and mobilizing. We’ll also have time to hear updates from different schools and institutions. The second half of our time will focus on the future of our annual meeting. Several of us have been working together, thinking about how to make this time productive and helpful. We want to invite all to join in as we contemplate together God’s preferred future for TOM.

Please make a point of joining us. The Zoom link is this:

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This is a new post on the Honor-Shame network website. It is a condensed version of an article in the International Journal of Frontier Missiology (which you can find here https://www.ijfm.org/.../37_3_4.../IJFM_37_3_4-Flanders.pdf). The issue of conviction is a critical one for contemporary global missiology, so I encourage you to take a look.

Shame-Conviction and Guilt-Conviction - Honor Shame Christopher Flanders (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is associate professor of missions at Abilene Christian University. He served as a missionary in Thailand for eleven years. This post is from his recent article This post is based on his article, “Bringing … Shame-Conviction and Guilt-Convi...

The Missio Dei Foundation (missiodeijournal.com) is very excited to sponsor this lecture at the CSC this June. Please make plans to be a part of this historically important moment. This is the first endowed lectures series in the Restoration Movement devoted specifically to missions studies and missiology. It will be well worth your time to join us there for a rich feast of challenging lectures and various sessions.

Kirsteen Kim: Inaugural Gailyn Van Rheenen Lecturer - Christian Scholars Conference We are pleased to announce that Kirsteen Kim will give the inaugural Gailyn Van Rheenen lecture in Mission and World Christianity, titled “The Spirit of Mission and the Mission of the Spirit.” Kim was the Paul E. Pierson Chair in World Christianity and Associate Dean for the Center for Missiolog...

We are excited to announce this opportunity for fellowship, encouragement, scholarship, and networking at the next Teachers of Missions Workshop, 1:30-5:00 p.m. March 25, 2022 at Dallas Theological Seminary in the Campbell Academic Center room 204 (1210 St. Joseph St. Dallas, TX 75204). This meeting will be held in coordination with the Evangelical Missiological Society South Central Regional Conference March 26. We invite you to stay with us at the Element Dallas Downtown East Hotel. Our plan is to meet as the Teachers of Missions Workshop on Friday afternoon, share an informal meal together in the evening, and then attend the EMS conference the next day. DTS is hosting us in one of their classrooms and will be offering snacks, drinks, and coffee during our meeting. If you would like to attend please 1. RSVP here https://forms.gle/amfuSGGzErgj5zwb6
2. Make your own reservations with the Hotel https://www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1643145281285&key=GRP
3. And register for the EMS South Central Regional Conference
https://www.emsweb.org/conferences/south-central-region/

For more info Contact Harding's Center for World Missions 501-279-5133.

Hi, friends! The Mission and World Christianity section of the Christian Scholars' Conference is still taking proposals. We'd love to receive yours! https://christianscholarsconference.org/submit-call-for.../

Even if you aren't presenting, mark it in your calendar. Our sessions are quickly becoming the premier venue for rigorous, scholarly missions conversations in Churches of Christ.

All, the latest issue of Missio Dei Journal is now out. This issue focusses on theological education in the world church.

Missio Dei Journal is a free, high quality, online resource for the global church. It is the only academic-level journal in Churches of Christ and the Stone Campbell tradition to focus on missions and missional issues.

Check it out, subscribe (for free!) and please pass on the link to others you know who would benefit from reading! https://missiodeijournal.com/

Home - Missio Dei Journal Current Issue MD12.1 | Theological Education in the World Church The Horizon of Theological Education (Editorial Preface to the Issue) by Greg McKinzie Andrew F. Walls: Apostle of World Christianity by Joshua Robert Barron Plenty for Supply (2 Cor 8:12-15): Theological Higher Education and The Major...

Those of you who are interested in issues of shame/honor/face, contemporary North American culture, and the church may find interesting this recent post on the excellent Mission Alive Blog site.

The Transformation of Shame: Attending to the North American Honor/Shame Context By Chris Flanders My assigned topic for this blog was the presence of honor and shame dynamics among various subcultures in the US and how the church needs to be aware of those dynamics if they wan…

Great resource for those engaged in teaching and forming God's people for mission. Carrie Allen Vaughn, Werner Mischke, and Jackson Wu have a new podcast y'all should subscribe to if you are interested in global theology or missions and theology. If you are interested in honor-shame issues, check out the new episode (S1, E3) that just dropped today- "No such thing as honor cultures? Interview with Chris Flanders."

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-such-thing-as-honor-cultures-interview-with-chris/id1578782275?i=1000533074384

The title of the episode comes from Chapter 11 in "Devoted to Christ-Missiological Reflections in Honor of Sherwood Lingenfelter", which you can purchase on Amazon.

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Many ask me about my research focus involving honor-shame issues. Here is a recent recording of a presentation I gave at the Asia Mission Forum (AMF) that is an excellent introduction to many of the issues involved. Also, there are many excellent video presentations available for free on the AMF Facebook channel.

Honor & Shame: What's the Big Deal? - Dr. Chris Flanders Honor and shame are signficant issues in scripture and in global cultures but are often underappreciated and misunderstood, especially by Western missionarie...

Feb. 23-24 Inn Express Hurst, TX
Just spoke with our featured speaker, Werner Mischke. This promises to be an incredibly important presentation. How does honor and shame impact the major issues we all work on teaching and engaging among our constituencies? Is a traditional, western, individualistic, guilt-focussed approach to the gospel and theology adequate for our 21st century contexts? These and other issues will be a part of his challenge to us. For information, please email [email protected]

Teachers of Mission

Detailed schedule to come.

All, a message this morning from Ken Mick, Wendell Broom's son-in-law. Please be in prayer for their family.

"Wendell's status has changed these last few days... Kathryn flies to Dallas Saturday morning to join her 5 siblings - at 93 year old, Wendell is choosing to forego regular medications, resisting drinking and eating, comes and goes in his lucidity - seems at peace, generally speaking, but if I had to guess he is making his move and likely doing it with some deliberation. Just didn't want you to be hit cold with any developments. He has rallied before and they actually released him from hospice care two years ago, but I think the next few days may be his moment."

Please all, be in prayer for our dear friend and former missionary to Thailand, Larry Henderson, who goes in for surgery this morning to remove cancer from his lung.

Call for Papers - Christian Scholars' Conference | Lipscomb University

I want to encourage writing in this area to submit a proposal for next summer's (2017) Christian Scholar's Conference at Lipscomb University. There will be several missions/missional sessions, including this one.

Missional Theology and the Future of the Church June 7-9, 2017
(http://www.lipscomb.edu/csc/call-for-papers)

This session welcomes scholarly submissions related broadly to missional theology and missional church practices in the US context. Papers that address specific contextual concerns (theological or practical) or offer constructive proposals for the twenty-first century church are of special interest.

Authors should submit proposals (approx. 300 words) to Greg McKinzie ([email protected]) by January 21, 2017. Authors will receive word about their proposals by February 15. The three best proposals will be chosen in consultation with peer reviewers. Papers presented in this section will be considered for publication in an upcoming issue of Missio Dei: A Journal of Missional Theology and Praxis.

lipscomb.edu Lipscomb University is a faith-based, liberal arts institution dedicated to challenging students academically, spiritually and as global community citizens.

Missio Dei Journal

All (though especially those who teach in academic settings and are about to create syllabi and meet with their classes soon)- The online journal Missio Dei (http://www.missiodeijournal.com/) is a fantastic resource for engaging critically missional issues. It is oriented primarily as a Stone-Campbell resource, though it reaches beyond that in many respects. It would be a super valuable resource to provide to your students, majors, and any that you are teaching/training. Would you please alert them in any way you see appropriate about the journal (it is free!) and also subscribe to the Missio Dei page (https://www.facebook.com/missiodeijournal/?fref=ts). This will be a huge blessing to students and help the journal connect to a younger generation of readers.

missiodeijournal.com

The 2017 Honor-Shame Network Conference (Wheaton, 2017)

A landmark event that I want to encourage all who can to attend.

honorshame.com Join us for the inaugural conference of the Honor-Shame Network. The theme is "Honor, Shame & the Gospel: Reframing our Message for 21st Century Ministry"

Most recent estimates I have for CoC #'s in continent of Africa put total at over 1 mill around 2002. Does anyone have any idea about current estimates?

FYI-2017 TOM info. For further info, contact Betsy Ezell ([email protected]).

Teachers of Missions Workshop 2016

Excited about this weekend! Register online or at the door.

Click on the image below for online registration.

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Teachers of Missions Workshop 2016

Everyone. Just want to point y'all to the online registration site. It will help us out a TON if you can do this online soon. Thanks so much. Looking forward to next month!

eventbrite.com If you book your room at the Holiday Inn Express by January 31, get the "TOM Conference" group rate of $95/night. Located at 820 Thousand Oaks Drive, Hurst, TX 76054 See the PDF for more information, including the schedule, information about speakers, and helpful links.

For anyone who participates in or is involved with the formation and training of God's missionary people.

Teachers of Missions Workshop 2016

Here's the online link to register.

eventbrite.com If you book your room at the Holiday Inn Express by January 31, get the "TOM Conference" group rate of $95/night. Located at 820 Thousand Oaks Drive, Hurst, TX 76054 See the PDF for more information, including the schedule, information about speakers, and helpful links.

Ok everyone. Here's the schedule.

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