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Mission as reconciliation and healing A new book on the healing and reconciling mission of the world-wide church has been mailed to the library of every residential Anglican college in sub-Saharan Africa.
Editor Kirsteen Kim says that the essays in the volume reveal “not only that mission involves the activity of reconciling but also how, in this process, mission — and the mission community of God’s people — is itself reconciled.” The book is the first to appear in the new Selly Oak Mission Series. ANITEPAM Governing Council chair Chad Gandiya has contributed a chapter on “mission as healing” — and it was he who suggested that UCA and ANITEPAM send a copy to each of the 100 residential colleges in its network. UCA agreed to donate the copies. ANITEPAM has covered the mailing costs from funds granted to it for such projects. The book was mailed from the ANITEPAM office in Port Elizabeth, South Africa shortly before Christmas 2005, along with copies of the November 2005 issue of the ANITEPAM Journal. The packages should have reached the libraries of ANITEPAM's member colleges during January 2006. Meg Merrifield, principal and librarian of the Bishop Hannington Institute in Mombasa, e-mailed ANITEPAM in January, saying: "We have just received the parcel you sent containing Reconciling mission and the ANITEPAM Journal. Thank you very much for remembering us. I am very interested in the book, and also in your first article in the Journal. We really are grateful." Reconciling mission has been warmly reviewed in the January 2006 issue of the journal Missiology (Volume XXXIV, Number 1, page 87). Roger E. Hedlund describes it as "well-informed by insights from the majority world", and says that it is "highly recommended to North American missiologists and mission leaders for exposure to mission thinking originating outside the North American orbit".
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