Theme: Mission as Vulnerability in the African Context
Location: Stellenbosch University, Cape Town
Date: 28-30 August 2024
Announcement
The first IAMS-Africa Assembly will take place in Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa at the University of Stellenbosch from the 28th to the 30th of August 2024. This is the meeting that will also elect the inaugural executive committee of IAMS Africa.
IAMS Africa is the regional formation or chapter of the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS). IAMS is an international, interconfessional and interdisciplinary professional society for the scholarly study of Christian witness and its impact in the world and the related field of intercultural theology.
After some preliminary meetings, IAMS was inaugurated in Driebergen, The Netherlands, in 1972. Since then, every four years an international conference has been held on the different continents. There are now more than 400 scholars who are members of IAMS as well as over 50 institutions that are corporate members.
Every four years, an Executive Committee is chosen by the members and is responsible for the development of the association and charged to organise the next quadrennial conference. On this Committee, different regions of the world are represented. The Secretariat of the association is usually taken charge by one of the associated institutions. Currently the Secretariat is located at ACTS University, South Korea.
The objectives of the association are:
- to promote the scholarly study of systematic, biblical, historical and practical questions relating to mission and intercultural theology
- to disseminate information concerning mission studies to all those engaged in that and related study fields
- to promote fellowship, cooperation and mutual assistance in mission studies
- to organise international conferences of missiologists and intercultural theologians
- to encourage the creation of centers of research
- to stimulate publications in missiology and intercultural theology
Registration Information
- Please register here.
- Conference Fee: R 2000 (including lunch and dinners, but excluding accommodation).
For any questions, please contact Mrs S. Coleman (