The fifth Mark of Mission: To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation & sustain and renew the life of the earth
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- November 12, 2024

When I think of relationships, I first think about the first one we read about in the Bible. The relationship between the Godhead. “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…” Genesis 1:26. This relationship is followed quickly by a second relationship in Genesis 2:18, “The LORD God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’
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It’s seven in the morning! My alarm goes off, I open my eyes, and it is still dark and cold. I hear the hail against the window and the rainwater gushing down from the roof tiles. I don’t feel like waking up.
I still remember one of my foster sons, while waiting for asylum in the Netherlands, asking the same question when we would try to wake him up to go to school.”Why should I get up and go to school when my future is so uncertain?” I can imagine so many people in dire circumstances, are asking that same question every day: why do I live?

A few weeks ago, I sat as an NGO observer on the balcony in the General Assembly Hall at the UN headquarters in New York and watched the opening event of the UN Summit of the Future with excitement. In view of the numerous challenges in the world – wars and conflicts, fear of further global pandemics, persistently high levels of poverty, widespread hunger, lack of prospects for the younger generation, challenges posed by new technologies and artificial intelligence – UN Secretary-General António Guterres had convened a special world summit in the hope of providing new impetus for better and deeper cooperation in the world.
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“I thank all the western missionaries that have brought the gospel to Africa since 1910 and planted churches. Yet, this hasn’t stopped corruption, tribalism and even genocide (Rwanda), promiscuity (HIV/Aids) and other evils. Yes, in one hundred years they made a lot of believers and a lot of Church goers. But they forgot … to make disciples.”
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When theology has feet and hands, we are at the beginning of responding to human need by loving service. This is the third mark of mission – “TEND”. There is much tending that needs to happen on our Continent. We live in a time, not of less need, but more.
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Read our April Newsletter editorial and a reflection on the 4th Mark of Mission.
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