Thesis Chapters by Emmanuel Afari
The transnational sister church relationship has been described by Janel Kragt Bakker as cross-cu... more The transnational sister church relationship has been described by Janel Kragt Bakker as cross-cultural congregation-to-congregation solidarity, based on mutuality for the benefit of partners involved. The sister church relationship avoids or shuns unidirectional sending of resources from one congregation to another as it seeks to correct “global inequality” as a result of “colonial mission effort” or missionary activities in colonial times. The sister church relationship evolving in the 1980s has had impact on individuals and congregations and has also contributed to contemporary missiology, as at the heart of contemporary missiology is collaboration and mutuality. In I987, Reverend Professor David N. A. Kpobi, minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana accepted to come to the Netherlands (Utrecht) to work with the then Reformed Church in Utrecht (now Protestant Church in the Netherlands). As way to maintain the relationship the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) and the Reformed Church in Utrecht had, he facilitated a transnational sister church relationship for mutual learning as far as God’s mission was concerned.
The transnational sister church relationship of Nativity and Utrecht is tailored after what Bakker has described as the sister church phenomenon. Further, this initiative of Kpobi corroborates Robert Wuthnow and Stephen Offut’s description of transnational religious connections. Wuthnow and Offut describe transnational religious connections as comprising of flows of people, services, goods, and information across national boundaries. In transnational religious connections, partners visit each other, and exchange information and other resources; as typified by the Nativity and Utrecht sister church relationship. In this research, we investigate the effect of the Nativity-Utrecht transnational sister church relationship on both partners – individuals and the congregations involved. And how this transnational sister church relationship contributes to contemporary missiology.
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Thesis Chapters by Emmanuel Afari
The transnational sister church relationship of Nativity and Utrecht is tailored after what Bakker has described as the sister church phenomenon. Further, this initiative of Kpobi corroborates Robert Wuthnow and Stephen Offut’s description of transnational religious connections. Wuthnow and Offut describe transnational religious connections as comprising of flows of people, services, goods, and information across national boundaries. In transnational religious connections, partners visit each other, and exchange information and other resources; as typified by the Nativity and Utrecht sister church relationship. In this research, we investigate the effect of the Nativity-Utrecht transnational sister church relationship on both partners – individuals and the congregations involved. And how this transnational sister church relationship contributes to contemporary missiology.
The transnational sister church relationship of Nativity and Utrecht is tailored after what Bakker has described as the sister church phenomenon. Further, this initiative of Kpobi corroborates Robert Wuthnow and Stephen Offut’s description of transnational religious connections. Wuthnow and Offut describe transnational religious connections as comprising of flows of people, services, goods, and information across national boundaries. In transnational religious connections, partners visit each other, and exchange information and other resources; as typified by the Nativity and Utrecht sister church relationship. In this research, we investigate the effect of the Nativity-Utrecht transnational sister church relationship on both partners – individuals and the congregations involved. And how this transnational sister church relationship contributes to contemporary missiology.