ANZAMS Mini-Symposium

Mini-Symposium

Aotearoa-New Zealand Association for Mission Studies (ANZAMS)

Date & Time: 30–31 October 2009 | 1:30pm (Friday) – 3:30pm (Saturday)

Venue: Laidlaw College, Auckland Campus – 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, Waitakere 0650

About the mini-symposium

Theme:

"From Edinburgh 1910 World Mission Conference to Edinburgh 2010 - Witnessing to Christ Today: Perspectives from Aotearoa/New Zealand"

A selection of papers will be presented which will discuss some of the themes of next year's Edinburgh 2010 centenary celebration, including:

• Metaphors of Mission in the Gospel of Matthew
• Newbigin's Trinitarian Missiology
• Missiologists as Key-holders for Theological Education Reform
• Migrant Theologies
• Christian Communities in Contemporary Contexts
• Global Christianities and Mission Studies
• History as Evangelism
• Global Christianities and Mission Studies
• Assessing the Impact of NZ Missionaries on the World Scene
• And more!!
  

Speakers

Among those presenting will be Ross Langmead (AAMS Australia), John Roxborogh, Steve Graham, Rosemary Dewerse, John Hitchen, George Wieland, Hugh Kemp and Peter Lineham.

Cost (including meals)

Prepayment: $50 (cheques payable to SGM Conference Account)

Door: $60

Accommodation
Limited accommodation may be available at Laidlaw College at extra cost.

For further information and registration, email Ian Dally, or phone +64 9 837 9758.

Immigration Paper

VisionNetwork publishes short papers on a regular basis, and has just produced by written by Dr Andrew Butcher & Dr George Wieland. Butcher is the Director of Policy and Research at the Asia New Zealand Foundation, and Wieland is a lecturer in New Testament at Carey College, NZ.

The Introduction states:

Immigration has played a significant role in the making of New Zealand. However, the growth in immigration from Asia since the mid-1980s onwards has significantly altered the ethnic composition of New Zealand society. This has, in turn, presented significant challenges for how New Zealanders respond to these changes, for how socially cohesive New Zealand is and could become, and for how churches in New Zealand respond to these changes as reflected in their congregations and parishes.

This paper seeks to identify and address some of these challenges as well as present implications and actions for the way forward. To begin, this paper provides a brief overview of immigrants and immigration policy in New Zealand. This is followed by a discussion of immigration and immigrants in the Bible. To conclude, we discuss the implications for Christian attitudes towards immigrants and immigration today.

The paper is available online here.