Rise to life
Partnering with God in building life flourishing communities By Sindiso Jele, CWM Africa Mission Secretary
The CWM statement 2020-2029 argues ‘…. Beneath the
surface of Babylon, (there are) alternative hopes, dreams and visions of life … Thus, life anew breaks out from beneath Babylon….’ Therefore, we locate Rise to life in communities (Revelations 21:1ff). Rise to life is the affirmation of human effort in partnering with God in saving the groaning world. It is an affirmation that God is located in the lives, the told and untold stories of the communities. As such in the sending and receiving the PIM communities join GOD nurturing the young mind (lecturers and teachers), they join God healing the wounded (in nurses and doctors), we join God in confronting the Empire through prophetic ministry (in Ministers/Pastors and preachers). Rise to life is equally about learning new things in the pilgrimage of our faith. Is about accepting that we do not own the monopoly of wisdom. It accepts that other civilisation has something to offer in making this earth a better place. As such, Rise to Life is about ideological tolerance, it negates racial supremacy.
Prayer
I pray, God, the mother of love and peace, that you take care of the PIM and enrich their minds as the join your mission in the communities (Missio Dei). I pray for ideological, cultural and theological tolerance. In you your hands, I commit them Image by Rev Dileep Kandula
Introducing our Newest Partner in Mission Rev Nigel Lindsay Greetings to you all from sunny, hot and hilly Grenada I am Nigel Lindsay, a social worker and Primary Mental Health Worker who has sometimes worked in schools since my ordination as a Congregational Minister in the UK in Oct 2009. The time had come for me to move on from my two Churches in East Ham London and as I have done some work in other countries, I felt God encouraging me to apply to CWM’s Partner-in-Mission Programme. The Presbyterian Church of Grenada was in need of someone to support their one Presbyterian minister and the role was to be Pastor to Samaritans Church and be Chaplain to the primary and secondary school, all in the north of the Island.
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