Creative Collaborations

CONTENTS

Introduction
Dana L. Robert, Allison Kach-Yawnghwe, and Morgan Crago 1

ECUMENICAL UNITY
Contemporary US Catholic Collaborative Mission
William P. Gregory 19

Missional Collaboration in North America’s Global Cities:
The Rise of City-Wide Church Networks
Dustin D. Benac and Christopher B. James 31

Mission and Theological Education among Latinx Christians:
Contributions of La Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana
Britta Meiers Carlson and Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi 49

MUTUAL PARTNERSHIPS
Sisterhood and “Sistering”: Restating Relationships in the Cartography of Missional Collaborations – Dallas Bethlehem Center, A Case Study
Glory E. Dharmaraj 65

“A Rare Encounter in Mission History”: The Story of Partnership between African Independent Churches and North American Mennonites
James R. Krabill 77

The Missional Collaboration of The Pentecostal Church of Chile and the United Church of Christ: The Holy Spirit Moving People and Congregations across Borders
Christopher P. Ney 89

Twinning Relationship and Missional Collaboration: A Catholic Parish in Uganda and in the United States
Angelyn Dries, OSF 101

COOPERATIVE PROJECTS
Collaboration in Mission: Theological Education in Mozambique
David W. Restrick 113

KAIROS – Contributing to Restoring Right Relations with Indigenous
Peoples in Canada
Stephen Allen 125

Partnership on the Evangelical Margins: Lausanne’s Global Creation Care Network in North America
Tyler Lenocker 136

DECOLONIZING FRONTIERS
A Prophetic Vision of Just Intercultural Community: The Canadian School of Missions and The Forum for Intercultural Leadership and Learning
Jonathan Schmidt 151

“Engaging Our Diversity: Interculturality and Consecrated Life”: A Program of the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life (CSCL) at Catholic Theological Union at Chicago
Roger Schroeder, SVD 165

Ministry at the Margins: Outreach to the LGBTQ+ Roman Catholic Community in San Francisco
Amanda D. Quantz 178

Notes on Contributors 191

ABOUT THE EDITORS:

Dana L. Robert, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University and Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University School of Theology (Boston, MA, USA)

Allison Kach-Yawnghwe, PhD candidate at the Boston University School of Theology

Morgan Crago, PhD candidate at the Boston University School of Theology

The case studies in this book show that rather than collapsing under the strain of massive challenges, many North American Christians are reaching across divisions and differences to connect with people and contexts unlike themselves. The research in this book highlights multiple ways in which North American Christians are collaborating with others to witness to their faith. Such collaborations are like the mustard seeds of the Kingdom (Mt. 13:31–32), often small and yet creative actions of believers who push beyond Christian divisions and paralyzing social problems.
The series of books arises from a study process that marked the centenary of the International Missionary Council (IMC), founded in 1921 at Lake Mohonk, USA. It has its origin in the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches, which wanted to celebrate the work of its historical predecessor IMC (1921-1961).