{"id":650,"date":"2018-09-28T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doarj.org\/ijhrss\/?p=650"},"modified":"2018-09-28T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:48:36","slug":"contemporary-south-north-church-partnership-and-reversal-in-christian-mission-example-of-the-menchum-presbytery-goppingen-deanery-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/contemporary-south-north-church-partnership-and-reversal-in-christian-mission-example-of-the-menchum-presbytery-goppingen-deanery-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"CONTEMPORARY SOUTH-NORTH CHURCH PARTNERSHIP AND REVERSAL IN CHRISTIAN MISSION: EXAMPLE OF THE MENCHUM PRESBYTERY-GOPPINGEN DEANERY PARTNERSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Kpughe Lang, PhD<\/strong> (Cameroon)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Abstract: <\/em><\/strong><em>The involvement of Christians and clerics from the Global South in the new missional movement experienced in Europe has been termed \u2018mission in reverse\u2019. The need of traditional European and African churches to foster reverse mission through South-North partnerships has yielded evangelical journeys to Europe by African clerics. The Menchum Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon has taken advantage of its partnership with the Goppingen Deanery of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wurttemberg to occasionally deploy missionaries to Germany for mission work. Building on the academic discourse on reverse mission, this article examines the south-north mission work of the Menchum Presbytery in Germany. It pays attention to the rationale, dynamics, challenges, and outcome of how missionary teams from Cameroon attempt to re-evangelise Germany, a traditional sender of missionaries to the Global South. This paper, building on the evangelism ministry of Menchum Presbytery in Germany, argues for recourse to partnership as a reverse mission paradigm. The success of Menchum Presbytery\u2019s mission work in Goppingen Deanery is evidence that South-North mission partnership is one theoretical construct to describe non-Western mission in the West.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Keywords:<\/em><\/strong><em> Mission, Reverse Mission, Cameroon, Germany, Menchum Presbytery, Goppingen Deanery, Mission Partners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Full Text:\u00a0<a class=\"file\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/IJHRSS\/09\/15.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"gde-error\">GDE Error: Error retrieving file - if necessary turn off error checking (404:Not Found)<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Kpughe Lang, PhD (Cameroon) Abstract: The involvement of Christians and clerics from the Global South in the new missional movement experienced in Europe has been termed \u2018mission in reverse\u2019. The need of traditional European and African churches to foster reverse mission through South-North partnerships has yielded evangelical journeys to Europe by African clerics. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tdoarj.org\/ijhrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}