Turning the Tables on Mission: Stories of Christians from the Global South in the UK

Theologies from the global south are in a far better place to respond in contemporary Britain as they are theologies developed from a place of weakness and marginalization. Theology done from the centre of power cannot speak into the new situation that the UK church finds itself in. This presents a challenge to All Nations, which we are well-placed to respond to. All Nations has been teaching students to challenge the Western hegemony on theology since the s. All Nations library - the biggest mission library in Europe, has stocked books by Latin American theologians and others around the world since the mid nineteen seventies.

Students from around the world regularly share their views in lesson times as they learn to consider different perspectives. All Nations finds Rev. Here at All Nations we are committed to envision and equip the UK church for its mission. All Nations is an independent, evangelical, interdenominational mission training Bible College. The purpose of All Nations is to train students in cross-cultural mission.

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Their primary and genuine desire is to be obedient to God. There is also a call to partake in the work that God is doing and a recognition that both black- and white-majority churches and their leaders need to cast aside scepticism and learn from each other. As I read these stories, it was as if I was reading my own story, and no doubt countless people will feel the same.

The challenge therefore is to listen to the integrity of these leaders. Let our hearts be transformed and, most of all, embrace enthusiastically the needs for mission here in Britain far more than overseas. The number of Christians who have moved from the global south to the UK is growing all the time. Why have they come? What do they find? What is their impact? The answers are varied and complex, and the value of this book is in the telling of the personal stories of those who have made the journey. Each, naturally, is different, but all offer a wealth of insight.

This is an invaluable resource to anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of reverse missionaries, cross-cultural mission — and quite simply, the language of spiritual friendship. This is a very interesting and worthwhile text. The stories of men and women of faith coming from all over the world to witness and preach the gospel in the United Kingdom is a story that needs to be told, and this book is an important contribution in the telling of those stories.

This collection forces us to reorientate our gaze and to see new and older ethnic minority communities in the UK as major assets to the church and society. For that reason it deserves to be read, discussed and shared. The last 50 years has been a time of phenomenal change in Western society, and were not finished yet. During this period and to the present day, a quiet revolution is taking place. As the population in the UK has disengaged from the Christian faith, so the church of the global south has appeared in our midst.

Have we the wisdom to understand what might be happening, and the humility to see that God is doing a new thing in our nation? Israel Olofinjana has gathered together stories that capture the essence of a turnaround in our understanding of how mission is happening today. This book tells the stories of missionary enterprises that start in the places once seen as the great mission fields of the world, and have as their destination one of the great mission sending centres — the United Kingdom.

Only God knows the future, but I believe the day is coming when our generation will be spoken of as the time when one of the great paradigm shifts in global mission took place. The mission historian Andrew Walls speaks of the Ephesian moment when two different first-century cultures came together to experience Christ. In twenty-first-century Britain, particularly in our cities, we are in an Ephesian moment again. Now it is a kaleidoscope of cultures, but the words of Ephesians still hit the mark — the church is being built together in the Spirit Ephesians 2: Embedding this theology in lived experience, these stories capture something of the growing pains of this moment.

Originating in the global south, the contributors are honest about the challenges and struggles they have faced in coming to live in Britain, yet they also inspire as they testify to the reality of seeing God at work. Overturning preconceptions about where mission is from and to, the voices we hear in this book may not be easy listening for British churches, but we need to tune in. Such voices make it plain that we have a lot to learn from each other. This commendable publication provides a very engaging description and reflection on the formative journey of 12 contemporary pilgrims from the global south and their impact on the church in the UK.

The stories offer some insightful models to aide our understanding of the call to mission and Christian leadership in our time, and in so doing present gentle challenges about how we embrace and demonstrate Gods purposes in and for our world. Israel Olofinjana has produced a very valuable contribution to the debate about reverse missions.

Among all the theory, he has written definitive empirical accounts of several pioneers. Their stories illustrate just what is involved in reverse mission, the challenges and the opportunities. There is much to learn from in this book, which both experienced pastors and those considering a call might consider carefully. This historic development in the British church scene possesses many admirable new initiatives.

On the other hand, there is also much naivety, among both incomers who do not understand the British context, and indigenous leaders who unrealistically see this as the solution to dwindling congregations. Israel Olofinjana's own careful evaluative comments on the phenomenon helpfully guide us to make the most of the growth of new churches in Britain.

He enables us to avoid falling prey to over-optimistic illusions, but without giving up hope for God's future move in revival in the United Kingdom.

Historians are currently rediscovering the importance and value of telling stories. The personal narratives compiled in this book are not only inspiring and thought provoking for those actively working in Christian ministry, but they are also a valuable resource for those of us who are seeking to understand and interpret the past, and to appreciate how migration and reverse mission are reshaping churches in the present-day United Kingdom and transforming their relationship to the wider world.

They serve as a stimulus to academics and practitioners to work together to collect more such accounts and to draw out their implications and practical applications for the future.

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David Bosch in his seminal book Transforming Mission refers to the many paradigm shifts that take place in mission, and what we see taking place now is one such example. Furthermore, he proposes that there is a pluriverse understanding of mission, and similarly there is a pluriverse flow of peoples taking the gospel from different parts of the world to other different parts of the world. What is possibly unique in these stories is that those coming to Britain and other Western nations do not carry with them the inherent belief that they are the carriers of a superior culture and faith, which was so much a part of Western missionary endeavours.

Instead, many come reluctantly and unwillingly; they echo the words of the apostle Paul, who wrote, I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling 1 Corinthians 2: