Vulnerable Mission

ALLIANCE FOR VULNERABLE MISSION

March 6th, 2008

Conference Dates.

USA

Tuesday 13^th January 2009 Oklahoma. Grace Assembly of God, 1041 So. Highway 54, P.O. Box 1629,Weatherford, OK 73096 (contact: Woodrow Wilson at: woodrow.oklahoma@vulnerablemission.com) tel.(580) 938-2694

Friday 16^th January 2009 Colorado Springs, Colorado (Rich Lotterhos,
director of Global Service Associates is to arrange this conference. Details pending.)

Tuesday 20^th January 2009 Boise, Idaho. Church of God, 3755 S. Cloverdale Rd., Boise, Idaho 83709 (contact: Don Armstrong at: don.boise@vulnerablemission.com) tel. 208-362-1700

Friday 23^rd January 2009 Seattle, Washington. Overlake Christian Church. 9900 Willows Rd NE, Redmond WA 98052 (contact details pending)

Tuesday 27^th January 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana. Church at the Crossing Youth Center, 9111 Haverstick Road, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 (contact: Tim Broyles at: tim.indianapolis@vulnerablemission.com) tel. 317 844-9355 ext 23

Friday 30^th January 2009 Lancaster, PA. World Mission Resource Center, 600C Eden Road, Lancaster, PA 17601 (contact Carol Stigelman at: carol.lancaster@vulnerablemission.com) tel. 717-299-1427

Friday 13^th February 2009 Andover, Hampshire. Andover Baptist Church, Charlton Rd, Andover. (contact John Butt at: john.andover@vulnerablemission.com) 01264 351645

Germany

18th February 2009 Freizeitheim Aichenbach, Christian-Friedrich-Werner-Strasse 57, 73614 Schorndorf, (contact Hans Schultheiss at: hans.schorndorf@vulnerablemission.com) Tel. 0049 7725 93840

Tuesday 10^th March 2009 Cliff College, Peak District. Cliff College, Calver, Hope Valley, S32 3XG UK (contact: steve.cliffcollege@vulnerablemission.com) tel. +44(0)1246 584215. Accommodation is available in the college to those who want to book in both before and after the conference.

Please note that dates refer to 2009 and not 2008.

Jim Harries

Chairman of the Board: Alliance for Vulnerable Mission

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are looking for people to contribute papers relating to vulnerable mission to be presented at the conferences and/or posted on the web. Papers should be encouraging either ministry without Western resources, and / or the use of local languages in Christian mission. Please contact jim@vulnerablemission.com for details, and send him your drafts.

Recent papers written by vulnerable mission stakeholders: http://www.jim-mission.org.uk/discussion/index.html

Other articles related to vulnerable mission: http://www.jim-mission.org.uk/articles/index.html

………………………………………………… ALLIANCE FOR VULNERABLE MISSION

a new order in reaching the nations (a proposal for conferences and association in mission)

For more information contact Jim@vulnerablemission.com

www.vulnerablemission.com

We are intending to locate an interdenominational and inter-agency group of people who will follow a vulnerable path which is a new way of engaging inter-church relationship and thus countering some of the unfortunate dependency and other ill-effects of missionary and aid / development agency practices by the West to the Third World. Target – all those concerned to share the good news of Jesus Christ worldwide.

Add your comments to this blog:

————- Vulnerable Missions Discussion ————

See this important link: You Said What?

Participants in this group are those who agree with the need to do the following in mission from the West to the non-West:

1. Depend on local (indigenous) tongues as the primary (or hopefully exclusive) language of interaction, planning and ministry with local people in foreign mission from the West.

2. Avoid using outside money to start, subsidize or sustain ministry activities in this mission. They will stick to forms of ministry the local people can afford.

3. Learn to imitate / appreciate local ways of operating.

4. And thus – play a role in enabling the formation of indigenous churches by avoiding the creation of Western dependency.

Steering committee members:

Dr. Jim Harries (chair) Church of God Missionary in Africa, Kenya. Lecturer in Bible / Theology using German / English / Kiswahili / Dholuo.

Dr. Stan Nussbaum Staff Missiologist, Global Mapping International, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Dr. Tim Lewis Director of the Strategy Division, US Centre for World Missions, Pasadena, S. California, CA, USA