Emerging Africa

The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization is to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 16-24 October 2010.

In order to prepare for it, there is a "conversation" web site at

http://conversation.lausanne.org/conversations

there is probably some overlap between the "emerging conversation" and the "world evangelization" conversation, so there could be some useful cross-fertilization.

Richard Rohr will be in Cape Town in May 2010, organised by Sergio Milandri. Here's what you can join in.

From Wild Man To Wise Man

May 7 to May 9, 2010 at the Mizpah Retreat Centre, near Grabouw.

A wilderness retreat for men on the spiritual journey. As men, we are a pivotal influence in our family and society in bringing healing and restoration to relationships. Richard Rohr is an exceptional author, speaker, teacher and retreat director and has taught and guided retreats around the world for the past 30 years. He has a passion for developing and rooting men's spirituality. It is our hope that men will not only engage and deepen the experience of their own spirituality but also be involved in the formation and mentoring of other men. This retreat is for men who are on that journey.

Restoring Male Spirituality in family and community

May 10 to May 12, 2010 at the Schoenstatt Centre, Constantia.

A workshop for men and woman on re-affirming the male soul in social relationship. A must for anyone involved in engaging and developing masculine sprituality - especially for men, women, community leaders and pastors. Richard Rohr is an international author, speaker and retreat director and has taught and guided retreats for the past thirty years. Richard brings a wealth of experience and wisdom to the everyday issues we face as men and women.

Heh all you special people. I am wondering as to whether the time has come to set this space up in a place where it is more accesible - like facebook - although there may be some or many who find that quite invasive. I am struggling to keep up with all the conversations and wonder whether there is worth in combining it a bit into something we all open daily. What do you all think ?

There's been nothing new here for more than a week, and I wonder if that is because all the links to the site seem to have been hacked by http://www.christianauction.com/.

The link from Amatomu has been hacked for two weeks or more, and now the link on my blog, via www.blogrolling.com, also seems to have been hacked.

The mybloglog link still works, but how long before it is hacked too?

Is that perhaps the reason that there has been no new content for some time -- because no one can find the site any more?

EmergentAfrica.com is dead; long live EmergingAfrica.info.

When this site was started a few years back, we decided on the name "Emergent" not realising that this was linking us to Emergent Village, a node in the web of the global emerging church conversation, and a decidedly American node. The new site domain emergingafrica.info represents this site in a better way.

In response to the question Does the emerging africa website have a future?, I suggest we start by getting a view of what we (whoever we are) have actually done (and thought), by writing a summary paragraph of our top two blog posts and/or our top projects, of the last 6 months.

1. It is about what has happened not just going to happen.
2. It is about action not just concepts.
3. It is a summary, as we tend to be present to details which remain quite invisible to others.

For example,

1. "My struggle for community"
2. "My monastic movie"
3. "My new marriage"
4. "My major church bust up"
5. "My big epiphany"
6. "The best book I ever read"
7. "The most beautiful piece of music I have heard"

Keep it real.

I'm going to be going to this on Fri and Sat morning, and thought many of you guys up in JHB would be interested in it.

Nation Building Forum, Gauteng

Nation Building is a forum of men and women from all sectors of society who have begun to work together with a common vision of transforming our cities and our nation.

Strategic alliances have been formed by churchs, government bodies, the private sector, NGO's and the social sector with a focus on orphans, widows, the poor, AIDS, education, government, health care, arts and business. Many of these groups have been hard at work with initiatives which are resulting in transformation and represent models that can easily be multiplied across the country.

Hi all - remember me? Probably not, since I haven't written anything on here in like 10 years. Doh! Well, I'm sure I'll go into this in more detail later, but the big things are:
1 - spending last year at Nieu Communities in Pretoria
2 - getting married in December
3 - traveling around Canada and the UK after that until the end of Jan
4 - missing our plane back to SA (haha, my fault too - turns out the London underground is bigger - and slower - than I thought)
5 - moving to Cape Town.

While conducting a search on plays on forgiveness and reconciliation, we came across this site where an actor was who is researching on this topic.

Our search was/is connected with our play, titled Bearing Witness. Bearing Witness is concerned with the same subject matter as this actors inquiry. Bearing Witness has been professionally staged in both Australia and Canada, is supported by autobiographical and the authors' personal and professional experiences. (We are both psychiatric nurses who have worked clinically with survivors of torture and trauma. )

Our play, Bearing Witness has also been a research project in its own right. It was staged for both general and academic audiences and as a pedagogical tool for undergraduate nurses.

Good day everyone.

I am very new at this and are still trying to figure things out on this site! I am also trying to find like minded people that live in the Eastern Cape (East London) to meet up for encouragement and to plan ahead, especially knowing the tough time that lies ahead for us!

I do believe that this is now the time for the church to seriously start being the church again!! after all, we are His hands and feet!

Please contact me! would love to meet!
Donovan Jacobs