Network: the purpose of this book

Welcome to Thailand, to the Redemptorist Center, and to the Forum

Crosses: Fred Rajan’s sermon opens windows to the world’s crucifixions and calls us to carry the cross of Christ into the racism, xenophobia and ethnic strife in our own backyards

Confusion: Some new understandings of cultural clashes

Forum
Keynote presentations:
Helen Richmond, “Struggles in Multicultural Ministry”
Richard Chung-sik Choe, “Experience of Christ in the midst of our Struggles”

Issues:
Summaries from group conversations about eight major issues:
1 Racial justice ministry
2 Experience of immigrants
3 Ministry of Indigenous people
4 Ambivalence of the later generations
5 Ethnic struggles
6 Different leadership styles and development
7 Theological education for multicultural ministry
8 Transformation of organizational church structures

Background paper: Clive Pearson, “Teaching in a cross-cultural environment”

Ministry
Reports by participants about multicultural ministry in
Africa, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Botswana, Canada, Europe, Fiji, The Gambia, Great Britain, Korea, Middle East, Myanmar, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tahiti, Tanzania, Thailand, Uruguay, U.S.A., Wales

Reflections
Looking back on this Forum and looking forward to the next:
Comments from two “Listeners” at the meeting, Patrice Rosner and Kuriakose Moolayil
Post-Forum reports from Bui Chi Ai, Albert Gayle, and Katalina Tahaafe-Williams

Resources
People
Chapel and Center
Worship program

Missioning: Raul Denuncio’s closing sermon sends us out with reflections on Acts 10:34-38, “the real way for a multicultural ministry”.

Steering: Planning towards the Third International Network Forum: Members of the new Steering Committee Regional Conferences

Participants
List of Forum participants, with mailing and email addresses