convocation

MISSIONARY MOVEMENT OF AFRICA
WEEKEND 14-15 JUNE 2003

MISSION IN A MULTICULTURAL AND
MULTI-RELIGIOUS SETTING IN EUROPE

Friday 13 june: Those who want to come earlier, please contact Eveline after tuesday 10th of june, or call the community at 070-3480064 (please do not send email before the 10th of june, otherwise my mailbox blocks while I' m abroad)

The program: saturday june 14

12.00 Welcome at our Communiy in the Schilderswijk !
Midday-meal.
PERS0NAL SHARING: Talking about experiences since last meeting: those we are uncertain about, and those that gave us confidence.
Tea time.
GUIDED TOUR IN THE AREA This will give us a fore-taste of what it is like to live in a muiti-cultural environment
CARROUSSEL-DISCUSSlON
What do you like about the presence of other cultures? Does this presence in our midst make us feel uncertain at times? Talking from person to person about what mission could mean in this setting.
Prayer 18.15h
Evening meal19.00h.

Business meeting (short version) 20:30h : Mission in muiti-religious settings:
the case of the Schilderswijk, explained by Sjef and Geert (M.Afr.), followed
by a discussion ...................... and a glass of wine.
(around 20:30-21h : Arrival of Piet, Veerle and Lydia)

Sunday: june 15.

08.30h : Breakfast (those who sleep in the other missionary community have
breakfast there)

9.15h : business meeting (continuation if necessary)
10:15h: EUCHARIST together with the English speaking African community
13:00h: midday-meal

14.OOh: "WERELDREIS DOOR DE STAD", joining the organised visit through
the Schilderswijk.
We will visit a mosque, a hamam, a cultural group, a temple, a church,a
"bewoners-vereniging", etc.

17.00h: Packing and wrap-up.
17.30h: Evening-meal.

After this we go home "moe maar voldaan":
with a revived sense of what mission could mean in our daily lives, in Europe!

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