1. This blog represents the conference blog-in-progress of SANKOFA REFORMATIONFEST-501: Africana Missiology and Sacred Jazz Conference Journal-2018 (SR501). It is a media arm of the Bishop Bengt Sundkler/Ethiopia Unbound Missiology Institute (BBS/EUI) out of Reformation Church Chicago/ELCA and from within the Metro Chicago Synod African Descent Ministries Roundtable (MCS/ADMR) that currently meets at Lutheran Theological Seminary Chicago (LSTC).
2. Key to organizing BBS/EUI is an annual fundraising and community engagement event to underwrite the program (ministry) of the Institute. Accordingly, SR501 serves as the main resource mobilization and community engagement project of BBS/EUI.
3. Beginning with organizing a major Fall 2018 observance of the 501st Anniversary of the ongoing Western Church Reformation, from an Africana Missiology context, SR501 seeks to introduce itself, going forward, as an annual convener of Africana Missiologists, Sacred Jazz musicians, and impresarios all aimed at advancing African Descent Ministries Missiology theory (theology) and practice (praxis) inside and outside the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
4. About Bishop Bengt Sundkler/Ethiopia Unbound Institute (BBS/EUI) for Africana Missiology. BBS/EUI is an initiative out of the African American Cultural Center at Reformation Church Chicago/ELCA ("Young Barack Obama's community organizing sanctuary"). It is also Reformation Church Chicago's contribution to the Metro Chicago Synod/African Descent Ministries Roundtable (MCS/ADMR) as well as to the Chicago Chapter of the African Descent Lutheran Association (MCS/ADLA). Moreover, BBS/EUI seeks to offer itself as an important contribution to addressing the burning question of advancing African Descent Ministries within the MCS/ELCA.
5. BBS/EUI's charter statement is wrapped in its name: Bishop Bengt Sundkler (1909-1995), after the path-breaking Swedish Lutheran activist/scholar on African Missiology of Uppsala University, Sweden and 1st Bishop of North-West Diocese/ELCT of Bukoba, Tanzania, on the one hand and on the other, Ethiopia Unbound Institute, as a professional learning center for missiologists, already at work in the Africana missiology mission field, missiologists especially inspired by Psalm 68:31 ("Let envoys come out of Egypt; let Ethiopia hasten her gifts to God").
6. Accordingly, BBS/EUI seeks to locate itself at LSTC via an in-kind community service of the Seminary's inner-city Chicago/Public Church hospitality ministry. For us, LSTC serves as a logical central point from which to organize BBS/EUI. We also similarly view McCormick Theological Seminary/Cross Cultural Reformed, especially its Center for African American Ministry and Black Church Studies.
7. By missiology we mean: A) "the study of religious (typically Christian) missions and their methods and purposes;" B) "the study of the missionary function of the Christian Church;" and C) "the study of religious missions and missionaries." By Africana missiology we mean the study of faith-based missions and their methods and purposes applied especially to the African Descent Ministries context or mission field.
8. On Sacred Jazz. By Sacred Jazz we mean the musical amplification of sacred texts (oral, written, or living practice) via the Jazz music idiom.
9. Finally, this blog seeks to serve as a core contribution to SR501's conference convening and conference proceedings publishing and/or media project for effective in- and outreach on behalf of our annual special event.
Respectfully submitted: Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma), Pastor, Reformation Church Chicago/ELCA ("Young Barack Obama's community organizing sanctuary"), 11-2-17. Updated: 11-4-17.
2. Key to organizing BBS/EUI is an annual fundraising and community engagement event to underwrite the program (ministry) of the Institute. Accordingly, SR501 serves as the main resource mobilization and community engagement project of BBS/EUI.
3. Beginning with organizing a major Fall 2018 observance of the 501st Anniversary of the ongoing Western Church Reformation, from an Africana Missiology context, SR501 seeks to introduce itself, going forward, as an annual convener of Africana Missiologists, Sacred Jazz musicians, and impresarios all aimed at advancing African Descent Ministries Missiology theory (theology) and practice (praxis) inside and outside the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
4. About Bishop Bengt Sundkler/Ethiopia Unbound Institute (BBS/EUI) for Africana Missiology. BBS/EUI is an initiative out of the African American Cultural Center at Reformation Church Chicago/ELCA ("Young Barack Obama's community organizing sanctuary"). It is also Reformation Church Chicago's contribution to the Metro Chicago Synod/African Descent Ministries Roundtable (MCS/ADMR) as well as to the Chicago Chapter of the African Descent Lutheran Association (MCS/ADLA). Moreover, BBS/EUI seeks to offer itself as an important contribution to addressing the burning question of advancing African Descent Ministries within the MCS/ELCA.
5. BBS/EUI's charter statement is wrapped in its name: Bishop Bengt Sundkler (1909-1995), after the path-breaking Swedish Lutheran activist/scholar on African Missiology of Uppsala University, Sweden and 1st Bishop of North-West Diocese/ELCT of Bukoba, Tanzania, on the one hand and on the other, Ethiopia Unbound Institute, as a professional learning center for missiologists, already at work in the Africana missiology mission field, missiologists especially inspired by Psalm 68:31 ("Let envoys come out of Egypt; let Ethiopia hasten her gifts to God").
6. Accordingly, BBS/EUI seeks to locate itself at LSTC via an in-kind community service of the Seminary's inner-city Chicago/Public Church hospitality ministry. For us, LSTC serves as a logical central point from which to organize BBS/EUI. We also similarly view McCormick Theological Seminary/Cross Cultural Reformed, especially its Center for African American Ministry and Black Church Studies.
7. By missiology we mean: A) "the study of religious (typically Christian) missions and their methods and purposes;" B) "the study of the missionary function of the Christian Church;" and C) "the study of religious missions and missionaries." By Africana missiology we mean the study of faith-based missions and their methods and purposes applied especially to the African Descent Ministries context or mission field.
8. On Sacred Jazz. By Sacred Jazz we mean the musical amplification of sacred texts (oral, written, or living practice) via the Jazz music idiom.
9. Finally, this blog seeks to serve as a core contribution to SR501's conference convening and conference proceedings publishing and/or media project for effective in- and outreach on behalf of our annual special event.
Respectfully submitted: Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma), Pastor, Reformation Church Chicago/ELCA ("Young Barack Obama's community organizing sanctuary"), 11-2-17. Updated: 11-4-17.
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