Month: January 2024

Learning to love: Pastoral care as mission at church-based, intercultural initiatives by Sue Holdsworth explores how love of God and love of neighbour was expressed by staff and volunteers undertaking intercultural initiatives in Australian churches. Holdsworth was inspired by her experience as a migrant and working with intercultural churches. She also recognises that there can …

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Pieter Labuschagne’s article The LIMM Model: Paradigm for Missiological Research offers a new approach to missiological research. The LIMM model was designed by the Loyola Institute for Ministry (LIM), with the second ‘M’ referring to missional action. The LIMM model is guided by three key missiological concepts: missio Dei, Christocentricity and contextuality. Labuschagne hopes this …

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In “They Made Space for Me”: Enhancing Receptive Generosity in an Anglican Diocese in Aotearoa New Zealand, Catherine Rivera expands on her PhD thesis and offers an assessment of why and how the Anglican church in Aotearoa New Zealand is seeking to develop good citizens.  In a time of rapid social and cultural change, understanding …

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Nigerian Pentecostal Mission in Europe: Ecumenical and Secular Relations in Britain is based on Dr Bisi Adenekan-Koevoets’ PhD thesis and explores a phenomenon called ‘reverse mission’: the strategies used by Nigerian Pentecostal churches in London and Amsterdam to evangelise white Europeans and increase multiculturalism in their churches.   Adenekan-Koevoets’ research uses an ethnographic approach: participant observation, …

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