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Amahoro Gathering 2010
We at Emergent Village are excited to announce the Fourth Annual Amahoro Gathering to be held in Mombasa, Kenya on May 3-10, 2010. This gathering promises to build upon the relationships built between leaders around the globe in previous years through conversation, prayer and fellowship. The conversation this year will center on the topic of Christ, Creation and Community.
The following is an excerpt from the topic summary at the Amahoro Gathering 2010 Website:
Across Africa, we are blessed with many of God’s most extravagant creatures, landscapes and cultures. We also suffer piercing traumas, putting us in touch with the groaning of creation, the longing for redemption and relief from troubles, disasters caused by nature and humans. How can we tend creation when our communities are in dire need of emergency care, when our spirits are crying out for healing and our bodies quenched for lack of clean water to drink? How can we celebrate the majesty of God’s creation when we live amid such impoverished conditions, in terrain that is east of Eden?
What we are learning is that as creation is pushed to the margins, the first to suffer are the poor. While the wealthy nations of the world expand their markets and hoard natural resources in the pursuit of more, it is the poor nations (many in Africa) that inherit the refuse. Global climate change has altered the age-old cycles of wet and dry seasons, with disastrous effect for those who live by subsistence farming. The tired soil robbed of nutrients, the contaminated waters, the growing desert and lands bereft of once lush forests…
As we work to transform our communities with the good news of Christ, we must see our work within the larger context of the cosmos. God has set each community within His creation and we are discovering that our well-being is interconnected with the health of our local ecosystems and the earth. As we follow Christ in the work of restoring all things, this includes both creation and communities.
This year when we gather together we will reflect on the theology of Creation, on the nature of Christ’s relationship with Creation and what that means for His followers and explore together how we can better care for our communities as we take a more holistic approach and care for local landscapes as well.
For more information on registration for the Gathering, click here.
For more information about Amahoro Africa, click here.
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