East Africa group engages with Fourth Mark of Mission and the Bible

The East African Regional Group held its second Contextual Bible Study (CBS) workshop at Jumuia Conference and Country Home, Limuru, Kenya from June 27th to July 2nd 2011.

Participants came from Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. Unfortunately, this time we did not have a participant from Burundi and Uganda, though they had been invited. Stephen Lyon of the Anglican Communion Office and the Coordinator of the Bible in the Life of the Church Project and Joseph Crockett of the American Bible Society attended the CBS. Their contributions to the CBS were very helpful and appreciated.

The core task for the CBS was to engage with the fourth mark of mission of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The purpose was to engage with Scripture to see how we as Anglicans have used scripture on the themes of ‘unjust gender structures’ and ‘unjust economic structures’, and what scripture says about the same themes. These themes were discussed ‘as aspects of the fourth Mark of Mission for the Worldwide Anglican Communion, that is, “To seek to transform unjust structures of society”.